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- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
it also let me know that you don't have to be a good person to be a success in business, but it's definitely my preference to be a good person and be successful. Idette Elizondo (MBA 2004): Idette Elizondo, 2004. In college, to make a... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
everybody has their own ways to cope, but by time I pull into my driveway I'm happy and ready to go. What we've done differently in this office—because we've had some pretty historic losings. I'm gonna say office. I'm sitting in Camden,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
since people preferred Amazon’s free two-day shipping. Occasionally, scammers would return cheaper, used boots in Ranch Road boxes for a full refund, and Ford was anxious that an unwitting customer would wind up with the wrong product and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
preferred to recruit straight from a school’s admission list. In an increasingly globalized world, deans and recruiters generally believe that business schools have not gotten globalization right. They want students with heightened... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, leverages years of research to help companies, and their leaders, address the challenges of virtual work. With well over half of Americans indicating a preference for... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
good to have the voices on the left or on the right to make it clear why one direction would be preferable to another. But now, when the extremes are disagreeing over facts and they’re shouting, they don’t give me View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
also helped lengthen and restore his tight, overworked muscles, and it became part of his workout regimen. During his time at YogaWorks, he is credited with boosting the company’s market position and launching its online platform, as well... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led since earning his MBA, Klarman shuns his private office, View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
an increased awareness of and preference for the brand immediately following the release and premiere of the film at both the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. “We believe this was the first View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
day. I spent a lot of time at the library because writing is so solitary and as an extrovert, the extended alone time was always hard for me. I prefer to be around other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work for and do business with a... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win by Chris Kuenne (MBA 1989) and John Danner (HBR Press) The most important factor shaping the success or failure of a new business is the personality of the builder―the founder or leader’s particular combination of beliefs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
that are big enough to keep them interested. "Another concern is staying nimble," he continues. "Someone in a garage right now is inventing a product that could be threatening to me. It's important to stay paranoid and avoid complacency." Which isn't to say Ranadivé... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
answer, and you never really know for sure. Ultimately, you’ve got to make up your mind in an ambiguous setting and move forward. Students, of course, would prefer for you to tell them the correct answer at the end of class. I never did... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
different orientations and different timelines. HBS students tend to have a very long time horizon, because they’ve deferred a lot of gratification. The students in my Leadership and Happiness class are very interested in the following... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
This technology is being widely used for the first time in this spring's Advanced Management Program: International Senior Managers' Program. The Message and the Medium As the last yards of new fiber-optic cables are installed, updated... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
do not have the time or money to travel physically, do it on your iPad. Don’t rely on any pension: it’s invested in Italian government bonds. Resign yourselves to working to age 70 and more. Look in Italian history for models to follow,... View Details