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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
address critical needs arising at certain inflection points for alumni along their career or life paths. Together, we can develop programs and learning opportunities that create value for you, when you need it. Together, we can develop... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
Growing up in Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria experienced urban life at its most extreme — cities so full of people and traffic that it was impossible to imagine they could grow any larger. At a conference on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
than mere life phase. Take how they were raised. This is a generation that’s grown up as the center of attention, thrust into the nucleus of the family, with parents orbiting around them. They have been told they can be anything they want... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
dimmer than they’d thought: In addition to Deborah’s ovarian cysts, Jake had a lower- than-normal sperm count. The couple went through three rounds of fertility treatment, all unsuccessful. Their experience made one thing clear: “We had no idea what we were in for,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
become chairman, CEO, and executive editor of Africa.com LLC. In this capacity, she has traveled with President Obama to Africa, produced and directed a documentary about Africa, and lectured at numerous Ivy League universities on Africa. This is very different from... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
re-education occurred when Spier won an opportunity to lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, a three-hour steak-a-thon. Buffett encouraged his dining companions to live their lives by an internal scorecard and to filter out distractions and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
to monthly meetings and expect to remain involved “for the long term.” While that sometimes seems daunting at first to busy professionals, Sheets says it’s critical to the forum’s effectiveness. “If you’re busy in a career, and busy with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Hospital. My uncle is president of the United States and my cousin will take over the same job in a decade. Big things are expected of me. But I’ve always had troubles succeeding along traditional Bush family lines. Surrounded by a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Don’t rush into the market. “Take some time to consider what you want to drive the next career decision. Is it long-term objectives, or do you want to focus on what’s going on in your life right now?” One of Burton’s clients is about to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
enjoy team management for the teaching aspect. It’s personally very rewarding to see someone take my advice or general direction and produce useful results. I enjoy turnarounds because they are very difficult and no one expects the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
complex and troubling questions of what to do when "doing the right thing" requires doing something else wrong or leaving a right thing undone. It examines choices in work and life and the critical points at which the two become one.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
spring Harvard Business Press will publish an edited volume of the colloquium papers, which we expect to serve as the foundation for a doctoral course on leadership research and scholarship. We’ve also established the Leadership Research... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
California Though the United States currently spends approximately $3.5 trillion a year on health care—the equivalent of the entire GDP of the world’s fourth-largest economy—our life expectancy has decreased... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
each of its October issues of the recent past, the Bulletin has run a short piece subtitled, approximately, "A Classmate's Reflections on the Occasion of the 25th Reunion." By now it's almost as if a genre has been created, with attendant View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
working late at night means that few people are going to be in the correct state of mind. It’s so disconnected from the magnitude of what could potentially happen if something were to go wrong.” —Sam Berube (MBA 2025) Students prepare cases about the kinds of companies... View Details