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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
than interesting.” April: We have a lot of new things to think about when we're sort of rebuilding the work environment in a virtual world. And it's obviously going to take us some time to create these new norms and figure out the best... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
imaginable form of government, all others excepted. Maybe the same applies to market capitalism. Uwe Lembke (MBA ’61) Saint Germain-en-Laye, France Beyond Class Notes Usually I just scan our class notes, where Norm Whitaker (PMD 17, 1969)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
million property that generates $100,000 in cash flow would have a cap rate of 10 percent.) Historically, the cap rate for commercial real estate has averaged 9 percent. As property prices soared in the 1980s, cap rates sank to between 5 percent and 6 percent. After... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get started, and what were the norms that led to this disregard for traditional verities? Kanter: The two big messages of the 1990s were “The old rules don't hold” and “There... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
essential volume look squarely at how normative and positive questions about political economy interact with each other—and from that beginning, how to chart a way forward to a just economy. A Political Economy of Justice collects 14... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
book on it.” MARCH 18 Khan Academy founder Sal Khan (MBA 2003) announced plans to help students and parents navigate the new norm of distance learning. Read more about his work here. MARCH 16 Moderna, led by CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
in the food world are just several of the demands that have kept Thomas engaged in her new career. “Crisis management is the norm in the restaurant business,” she notes. “That doesn’t work for me because I was trained as an industrial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
last spring. But for Gisholt and Minard, the satisfaction of running a business continues to be worth it, despite the logistical complications that can arise around raising a family when long hours are more the norm than the exception.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
self-improvement, resulting in levels of profitability, quality, efficiency, and reliability unmatched by rivals. The book shows how to build and manage such a system of dynamic discovery. The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By by Dave Ulrich, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Leonard M. Harlan (MBA '61, DBA '65), president of Castle Harlan, Inc., who has been a guest lecturer in Poorvu's class several times over the years. Part of this understanding is learning how to make deals in a fragmented industry where nonstandard pricing is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
than using more explicit cosmetics. In Shanghai, two women shade themselves as they walk past an ad for a skin-lightening cream. Powered globally by marketing, media, and entertainment, commercial beauty ideals may challenge local cultural View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
statistical norm of two children. Her in-laws were appalled when she went back to work when her youngest started school; no one blinked when I went back to work after an eight-week leave. Her career options were nurse, teacher, librarian... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
behavior in the Justice Department’s crosshairs — deal sharing — is an important aspect of this competition that benefits us all. To understand the benefits of deal sharing, it is helpful to look at private equity’s older sibling, venture capital. VC syndication has... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
“Ramen head.” “These things are traumatizing for an elementary school kid—when you don’t fit in perfectly,” she recalls. And there were different customs and norms that required acclimation. The school had no janitors, so the students... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
ability and willingness to speak up in class. Walker points out that many international students come from cultures in which it is taboo to debate with a professor or a fellow classmate. Other societal norms dictate that greater respect... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
that person is leading? Amy Jen Su: I think when we're in leader B mode and it becomes our operating norm or our center of gravity, that's where the “watch out” really is. When a leader is more and more often finding themselves in that... View Details