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- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
Evil Empire once again, you won’t hear jukebox music that celebrates work and jobs. In fact, it’s a slam dunk you’ll hear the opposite (e.g., “Sixteen Tons,” “Get a Job,” “Workin’ for the Man,” “Take This Job and Shove It” .your favorite... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
will try to maximize every encounter for themselves, right? The question they ask is, What’s in it for me? whereas givers will ask the opposite question, How can I help this person? Not for any gain but just because it’s the right thing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
aspects of the college, which in its first three years grew from a few holes in the ground to a thriving institution of 1,400 students and one of the largest employers in the country. Virtually all aspects of what we did required innovation and faced substantial View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
uncomfortable questions about faith in the midst of suffering. A pediatric palliative care doctor said the opposite of suffering is beauty; Fujimura concurs. —Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995) Bhagavad Gita This is, hands down, the best book I’ve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
companies. It stood to reason that private firms, which tend to be highly leveraged, would hoard even more cash as a precaution. But according to a first-of-its-kind study by Joan Farre-Mensa an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, the exact... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
inspiration boards with images ranging from playful to sexy to Brooklyn, to get a better sense of the brand Jess Deckinger describes as “warm and fuzzy,” and “a cooler way to do dating.” As the meeting ends, one designer sums up the Deckingers visual preferences... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
During this time enemy activity markedly increased to Major Gurfein’s front while at the same time enemy mortar fire was being “walked” down the berm towards his position. Without warning, the enemy opposite Major Gurfein came under fire... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
On opposite coasts of the United States, two HBS clubs have developed innovative programs to help MBA students broaden their career options. "I am confident that I will get a job in Seattle when I graduate," says Martin DeBono (HBS '00),... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial products are systemically risky, like credit default swaps. What would you do? My proposal is just the opposite of the Treasury’s. I would put the Fed in charge of risk monitoring because that’s where it has the most expertise.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
work was under way to repair damage done by February's 6.8 magnitude earthquake. Despite this activity — to say nothing of the high-octane pace of Starbucks' growth — Smith was calm and seemingly unflappable, quite the opposite of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
and disaster. Until recently, the country's problems were considered mostly economic - the difference now is that they are rapidly becoming problems of violence and confrontation. What we are seeing could well be the tremors before an earthquake. What's to be done?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
with people and could be spelled and easily translated around the world. She describes a “sweetriot” as a celebration of togetherness, diversity, and understanding, just the opposite of a civil riot. “Social change is embedded in our... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
experienced. Why did the SEC override strong industry opposition and require mutual-fund boards to appoint independent chairmen? The commission felt, and I strongly agree, that there’s an unacceptable conflict of interest when the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
On October 1, 1976, Jon Pellegrin (6th OPM), the then 32-year-old vice president of Wisconsin's Johnson Hill Press, walked solemnly into his father George's office. It was time. Slumping into the chair opposite his father's desk, he took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to see that people thought they were much more productive at home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a... View Details