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Neda Navab
The black and white photo of my grandparents' wedding captures two strangers – a bride, hooked into a stiff corset gown, and a groom, rigid in a starched tuxedo – timidly posing beside each other. They were not in love. Angered by the arranged View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
its national character. Their branding messages have “CRED,” as Ofek calls it. In other words, they are: Credible. The qualities a country promotes must reflect reality. Spain’s legalization of same-sex marriage in 2005 reinforced the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
play? We are given to believe that Steve was very much of two minds about his next move. He was not a boy wonder anymore. He was forty-two, with a family and with more than a billion dollars in assets. His marriage was a success. He loved... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
all and stepped down from his businesses at the end of November 2017.) The article ripped through her life like a wrecking ball, Dixon says. Her marriage crumbled. The startup was put on ice. Personal traumas that had long been buried... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
days would call African Americans 'Aunt' or 'Uncle' or by their first name, Ben or Sarah or whatever. They would never address them by their surname." Although Breedlove's marriage to a newspaper advertising salesman named Charles... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
that they're illegal to not so repugnant that they're legal. Gay marriage became possible through the courts, not through the legislature. Judges decided that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution of Massachusetts was violated.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
girls. Marie had less patience and was more outspoken about the perceived promises that Jeff had broken than she had in the past. She had told him just before he left on his trip, "Jeff, in our fifteen years of marriage I don't know... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Long Distance Relationships: What if my partner can’t join me at HBS?
short months together we have had two marriages and two newborn babies! Yes, we’ve been through a lot already! Since I consider my Section my new family, I look for support from them whenever I can. I integrate my life outside of HBS with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
in business economics in just two years, Porter devoted the next decade to developing the seminal ideas that remain the cornerstone of his life as a professor. His marriage in 1985, however, led to some changes in perspective. "My wife,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
others deem crazy (see getting married at 21). We have course corrected when things are not working and recognized that our long-term marriage must always win out over any short-term decision. We have never regretted choosing the other... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
sociologist at Harvard Business School. His parents were an interracial couple who fell in love in the 1960s, when mixed marriages faced scorn and sometimes worse in many parts of the US. Even so, he said, they always believed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
with Roberto Rigobon for the "Impact of the Billion Prices Project and PriceStats on Central Bank Policymaking." Marco E. Tabellini : Won the 2018 European Economic Association Young Economist Award for the paper "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
up with the right answers, he found those who had more people in their social network from different cultures who disliked each other did about 23 percent worse on the test. This makes sense, says Chua. "Just as a child observing parents not getting along may develop... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
importance of allocating resources in such a way that they match the strategy, starting with tales of woe from giants like Unilever and Apple and segueing into stories of friends whose marriages fell apart due to neglect. "Watch where... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
about the move of the core companies into the client server (RISC chips and UNIX operating systems) technology that permitted them to mount a major challenge to the United States in the early 1990s, when the marriage of the corporate WANs... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
unique assortment at Victoria's Secret clearly leverages its web presence. And Toys "R" Us recently announced that it will add significant amounts of unique merchandise to its assortment for this holiday shopping season. The marriage of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
prefers quiet time at her apartment over lavish social events. Her marriage in May to Kalpesh Mehta, a real-estate developer, was noted in the press for its secrecy. Asked about her social life, Nisa quickly mentions treasured Sunday... View Details
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Love and Money - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly Love and Money 36 [ View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Reunited
reunion attendance. And second, the weekend saw the first-ever marriage proposal during an HBS reunion—that we know of, at least—resulting in the engagement of Jesse Janosov and Nga Chiem (both MBA 2008). View Details