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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
NeuraMetrix is also studying the potential of using typing cadence to diagnose or monitor ADHD, depression, and REM sleep behavior disorder, with more trials planned. The next step is commercialization. They have begun their efforts in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
president of the Jewish Communal Fund and currently heads the New York City Parks Foundation. The father of four, Tisch strives to strike some balance in his very full life. As it is, however, he normally sleeps only four-and-a-half hours... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
would sleep for two hours, so I would aim to work for an hour to an hour and a half each day. If it didn’t happen, I’d make up for it at night. There was a period of about two weeks when he was waking up every half hour. I sat by his... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
thatched-roof hut. GiveDirectly payments allowed him to buy building materials and livestock. The family now sleeps under an iron roof fitted with a solar panel and raises goats and cows. “My proudest achievement is that I now own several... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
predominant use case we have in mind is shared rides. Fully driverless cars can be optimized for the passenger instead of the driver, so we see a scenario with multiple types of cabins, and people can call up the one most suited to their needs. You might have a View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Congress for the authority to take them over, it was granted without much debate. I’ve spoken to almost every lawmaker, regulator, and executive who might have influenced that decision, and none indicated they lost much sleep over the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
strategy and assessing your place in the competitive landscape. Tool 15, “Taming Co-opetition,” helps one determine the risks and rewards of sleeping with the enemy. Essentially, the advice is, don’t. “With few exceptions, being in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
screen. There have been a lot of lunches at the local café.” Road conditions: “When I’m traveling, I depend on my Whoop strap. It helps me be disciplined about my sleep and lets me know overall how my body is feeling—if I can exercise... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
occasional Saturday soccer game with cell phone at the ready. But for Dick Simon (MBA '80) , his wife, and three children, last year quality time meant — among other memorable adventures — camping together at 12,000 feet under a full moon on a snowfield in Bhutan,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Before working for our aquarium, she had been homeless for eighteen months, sleeping with her son on the floor of his daycare center while she searched for employment. So what then was my takeaway? I learned the family culture our company... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
person. Many places have no roads and no shelters, and the porters often sleep outside or in communal rooms on benches. The Gokyu Lakes shelter will be CAN's third, providing the porters with both a protective resting place and medical... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
safe and convenient to let somebody in your neighborhood rent your car. In terms of trust, I think that for many people it’s a big barrier to let a stranger drive off in their car or to let a stranger sleep in their house. In reality,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
great things.'" Even though she was too far along in her studies to do the joint JD/MBA program, Brochu decided to enroll at HBS anyway. One semester she took 10 classes, which, even by HBS standards, shows a lot of drive. "I've no idea how I did it. I didn't View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
ago. There were multiple species of humans (nine in total), now only sapiens is left, and most humans have some Neanderthal DNA. Runners-up: Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker Range: Why Generalists... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
tracking global market trends and finding investment opportunities — such as gold, interest rates, currency, and commodities — that match those trends. Balance Is a Crock, Sleep Is for the Weak: An Indispensable Guide to Surviving Working... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
Augusti, held her hand for several hours during the final climb up the mountain. “He was my savior. There is no way I could have done it without him,” said Linda, who at the end of the climb gave him her brand-new sleeping bag to show her... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
as crime will always be there. What you have to do is keep it down to as low a level as you can. How do you cope with your own fears? I don't lose any sleep these days. I have been dealing with ugly issues going on twenty years now. -... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
"principles for getting a lot done." Now in his new book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours (Harvard Business Review Press), he shares more performance-enhancing tips on everything from how to sleep better on... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
sleep until I got them all a job.” Her extraordinary dedication to education began when Rewane was only six, when, enamored of her first-grade teacher, Mrs. Gbayisomore, she told her parents of her strong desire to follow the same path.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
actually after 8:30pm after my son goes to sleep. I have this golden three, four hours that is just so uninterrupted. I was not at the office, I was not distracted, I was at home and I could just be by myself and when it's quiet at night even though people are View Details