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- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
that, Conn says, the rules of strategy that he learned in business school no longer apply. So how do we change the way we solve strategic business problems? In this episode of Skydeck, Conn talks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about his... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
India's New Money Managers
use of excess cash; and the veritable dos and don'ts of personal loans. It's an ecosystem, the company says, that cultivates the financially fearless. "People always tell me women are risk adverse. What I View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
Aileen learned that Megan, fifteen months old, and Patrick, seven days old, had Pompe disease, which destroys muscles, degrades breathing, and dangerously enlarges the heart. They were told that Megan and Patrick wouldn’t live past their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Sep 2022
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The Beauty Guide
gave her some advice: Leave the comfort of marketing and join sales; learn the business from the inside out. The suggestion made little sense to Freyre, who considered herself a marketer and a brand strategist at her core. But she trusted... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
officials, nonprofit leaders, and business executives, they kick-start that process by coming together for four days—and learning to speak each other’s language—in a Hawes Hall classroom. You can see it starting to happen in a discussion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
years after graduation,” explains Perlow. The following year, she led 17 students in an independent study project that asked hundreds of alumni to consider what they wished they’d known while at HBS and what they’ve learned since then.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators that we become later in life, paying dividends that far exceed any minimum-wage salary. Here, alumni share stories about their entry-level errors, as well as the personal and professional... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
born with, which is curiosity—this genuine interest in discovery—and connecting with others, to understand and learn from them. Something that I learned by taking my husband to improv-comedy classes as a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
whole School.” The rest, as they say, is history. Named in his honor, Baker Library was designed to serve as the visual and intellectual focal point of the new campus. Today, the library’s renowned Historical Collections reflect Baker’s View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
face rejection are job requirements for entrepreneurs. “No one person can build a company,” says Dahod, reflecting that one of the most difficult moments in his career was when he sold Starent to Cisco and decided to build a new team. “I... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his uncle, a janitor, to “be of service... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
ventures. The alumni event will be followed on March 30 by the student-centered New Venture Competition, taking place in-person in Klarman Hall. The remainder of the global finalists included: Haf Haf Inc. A fun, reliable, effective, eco-friendly View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Boston Culinary Group, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Harvard College, 1967 A.B., Government and Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The analytical process I learned at HBS... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen’s life. One such person is Deward Walker, who in 2007 challenged Keen with a question that has a recurring role in Sacred Seed’s origin story:... View Details