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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
faithful classmates who touch base at least once a year with news of the kids, a job change, or exciting vacation exploits. Their summaries enrich the continuing narrative of the Class Notes — Harvard Business School's own version of an... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
He needed the kind of break that the typical American vacation week couldn’t offer. So in 2017, he took a sabbatical—which included a ten-day silent meditation retreat followed by a six-week walking pilgrimage in Japan. The experience was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
training on the inside." Not all the early issues were focused on bricks and mortar. Along with reports on club events and the developing curriculum, there were articles of a more personal nature, such as this notice of a notable professor's View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
for 23 years. We're having a great life together with our three sons. The family takes two interesting vacations together every year. I'm also involved in some nonprofit activities, including the Fish House Foundation, which raises money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
she just burst into laughter,” says Karsenti, who was born in Paris and raised from the age of three in Miami by parents who were both entrepreneurs. “I just loved business. I remember going on a family vacation and being outside a bakery... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
vacation homes. The business emerged from the Millennial Housing Lab—another Staff project—with a mission to “develop and realize fresh housing ideas for a new generation.” And it’s not just for millennials. “We’re talking about people... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
DVD to catch up on world cinema. I collect antique maps of India from the days of the British Raj and am also finding time to indulge in still photography and play the occasional game of tennis. What’s your favorite place to vacation or... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
later, on a vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a fund focused on gender lens investing and sustainability. Not long after, she left Global Ventures, citing a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
able to take vacations with the kids." While Morse is conflicted about her next move, she does feel that her background -a Harvard MBA and a very successful career at Lehman -gives her an advantage. "I am confident that I could go back to... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
kids on vacation with tobacco company money, you know? And so yeah, I do feel, I do feel good about that. DM: So Richard, we've been speaking a lot about what business leaders, what firm leaders can do. They see this big movement ahead of... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
at the Kirkwood Hotel with the strict instruction that drinking on the job was not allowed. Two months in, I regularly enjoyed a few gin and tonics while on duty. One day the owner found out what I was up to and fired me. I had to immediately View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
seasoned workers. Viana continues to talk while casually squeezing his SUV into an impossibly tiny spot along one of the narrow streets in Bayeux’s historic center. His last real vacation with his wife and three children was three years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
home. Two-thirds of workers can easily take time off during the workday to address family or personal matters. Half are able to take a few days off to care for sick children without losing pay or vacation time. Source: The Families and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
discretionary behavior, and they’re certainly not wasting time reading the company handbook. They even resist restrictions such as vacation or expense policies, which Netflix has essentially abolished. The company’s expense policy is,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
a little bit too intrusive. But I found that the gentleman that time was having a vacation in France. So that day I said, "Good. I have to go. I have to find Tim because he is close by." Morrell: So on June 2017, Piero calls Tim's mobile... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
think HBS was going to be like? Amyn Pesnani: One thing that surprised me was I thought I would hardly learn anything. It was just meant to be a vacation. Laughter It was a vacation from the work world, but I still learned quite a bit,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
self-examination. There are some areas for us that are almost sacred. You know, of course, the tithe for us is sacred, and that we do, no matter what. But honestly, for us, and I imagine this is true for a lot of my fellow grads, is for us View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
country Sender wants the world to see—a new Brazil, more urbane, more professional. A place where tourists want to vacation and where companies want to do business, with cities they can both enjoy. It can happen, she says. People can... View Details