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- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
daughter, I was technically on maternity leave and that maternity leave quickly shifted into a medical leave, which was a blessing in disguise in its own way, that I was able to be home, truly dedicated to my treatment, to my newborn and elder daughter, and luckily had... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
high odds, which Ed chronicles in his recent book On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom. READ MORE Courtesy Ed Hajim Courtesy Ed Hajim In 1939 Ed Hajim's parents divorced and his mother was... View Details
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Rebecca Emerick
Rebecca is a Corporate Relations Director in the HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) office. She has worked in CPD since 2008 and serves as the consulting industry lead for the office. In addition, she manages the recruiting operations team responsible for... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there is greater scope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
down from mentors or parents and, in the process, create a dividing line between those who inherently know how to navigate a workplace environment and everyone else. After working as a career advisor for first-generation and low-income... View Details
- Profile
Sebastian Vargas
parents took my friends, cousins, and me to a rollercoaster park in Bogota called Mundo Aventura. The details of the day escape me, but my recollection is one of unbounded fun and happiness – everyone I loved was present that day. When I... View Details
- 24 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Latino Students
I was born in Mexico and moved to California when my parents decided they wanted to build a better life for our family. From the age of five, my new home was Fresno, California - a large city in the Central Valley where I was surrounded... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
most cutting-edge technology and highest quality turbine blades, which it sells to companies such as Vestas, Siemens, and GE, LM Wind’s parent company.Below is a photo of our team in front of the first-ever offshore wind turbine blade... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
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Andreas Jaegle
In Eichstätt, the small Bavarian town where Andreas Jaegle grew up, the Jäegle family managed a fleet of more than 180 buses, a family-owned business they had run for more than 100 years. “But I wasn’t under any pressure to run it myself,” Andreas says. “Instead, my... View Details
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Archiving Your Research Files - Research Computing Services
researchgrid$ To see how much data (in kilobytes) is in each directory: researchgrid$ du -sk * 12976 AcmeCase 340093 airlineDat 880144 bank_proj The listing above shows that the directories contain about 13, 340 and 880 megabytes, respectively. From the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
IN HIS ELEMENT: Peter Thayer has spotted nearly 3,500 species of birds...and counting. Peter Thayer (MBA ’73) didn’t recognize the little bird hopping about in his backyard outside Cincinnati. His parents had given him a field guide for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
want to use their skills to have an impact on the world. Ninety percent plan to go to graduate school. How did you score on the SAT? I took the test in 1966 and scored in the 1300s. What’s your next book? I’m interviewing the parents of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have some fifth graders working on trigonometry and some reviewing basic arithmetic. The teacher no longer spends class time lecturing,... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
others, you’ll create a self-perpetuating culture.” “My parents were the first in their families to attend high school, never mind college,” says Jack Brennan (MBA 1980), former chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. Brennan cites the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
grew there were increasing pressures to integrate with the parent company. While Atan believed that this would destroy the unique culture and positioning of Enpara, senior management was wondering whether to spin it off or merge it with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
graduates from working-class families. I helped my parents deliver packages and clean college dorms in Philadelphia. Christine helped her immigrant parents run a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. It was... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
diarrhea, so it's hard for parents to tell whether it's working. The ORT solution tastes awful, like salty metal, so many children refuse to drink it. And pharmacists tend not to suggest ORT to mothers because they don't consider it to be... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
subsequent to, depreciations. Differing product market exposures do not explain these differences in performance. Instead, a differential ability to circumvent financial constraints is a significant determinant of the observed differences in investment responses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne