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- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
parents were both the first in their families to go to college. They met in high school, where his mother was the class valedictorian and his father was the salutatorian. “My narrative is the American narrative,” observes Howard, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
their rare level of detail, geographic scope, and depth of narrative information about individual businesses and the people who ran them—the high-flying bankers and railroad men as well as women, recent immigrants, and African Americans.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what had led to their outsized outcomes. As a writer, I also... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
well-tailored as ever - was besieged by platoons of former students reaching out to congratulate him on his fourscore years and to wish him many more." (Please see Ted Anthony's essay by clicking here.) Jeff Cruikshank succeeded Anthony in 1981, and his own View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
product categories the frantic effort to keep up with the competition by adding features and gimmicks can paradoxically result in a “sea of sameness.” In a personal narrative voice, and drawing extensively on the experiences of family and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
detail. “Everything seems so obvious when it’s written down in condensed narrative format with accompanying exhibits,” she says later, calling the experience of listening to two years of her life boiled down to a 70-minute discussion... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the present. Kiechel’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
faithful classmates who touch base at least once a year with news of the kids, a job change, or exciting vacation exploits. Their summaries enrich the continuing narrative of the Class Notes — Harvard Business School's own version of an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
people will all mentor others, which amplifies my actions by my choice to invest in you. Chris Howard (MBA 2003) President, Robert Morris University My narrative is the American narrative—from the great-great-grandson of slaves to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
exercise ultimate control over the corporation, university business education lost the grand narrative that had sustained it from its beginnings. The loss of this historical metanarrative of management as a profession — a View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
leaders to recognize that, yes, you need to do a lot of time on plumbing, but don’t forget the job of a poet. In that context, then I try to unpack what is a poet as a leader. And one of the pieces I talk about is how they build a grand View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
out to discover the person or persons who betrayed the Frank family’s Amsterdam hiding place to Nazi authorities in 1944—a betrayal that resulted in the death of seven people (only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived). It is a narrative... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Unlocked, discover an everyday approach to increasing joy and momentum in life. Upgrade your process with neuroscience-informed tools, get unstuck on long-term projects, find expressions that naturally spur delight, explore the narrative... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
or whatever, and she had handled it and everything else, Comey's announcement was like, uh, when are we ever going to get rid of this issue? And if you thought that she was guilty, it was reinforcing a narrative that you already believed.... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
business,” says Cunningham. CMO Morgan Flatley says the good narratives about the business are there. “I think we just need to dust them off and show them in a new light to our consumers.” That April, Cunningham and her team first tested... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
excitement of a startup? McGinnis shows how, by investing just 10% of your time and resources, you can become an entrepreneur without losing a steady paycheck. Entrepreneurs in the Midst: Stories from Founders, Creators, and Builders by Renny McPherson (MBA 2011) and... View Details