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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
and prepared to return home with a new perspective. The bonds forged during this experience remain, as the group stays in contact. Gower notes that the one-on-one coaching that he and the other participants received with an experienced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
them would just give up in the latter half, because there was no way they could make quota.” An ideal setting for a field experiment The retailer was an ideal setting for a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
highly focused field of neuroscience had been completely missed. So Amadio teamed up with two Atlanta-based partners—Christopher Klaus, a serial technology entrepreneur who provided $1 million in startup capital, and Jim Schwoebel, a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and Daisy Azer (Columbia University Press) Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
IN HIS ELEMENT: Peter Thayer has spotted nearly 3,500 species of birds...and counting. Peter Thayer (MBA ’73) didn’t recognize the little bird hopping about in his backyard outside Cincinnati. His parents had given him a field guide for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
thought — being able to carry many complexities in your brain at the same time — is a certain skill that people who grow up reading literature develop. People who read IMs don’t.” Why e-readers are a good thing for civilization: “E-books bring reading back to a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
months later, he was introduced to Beverly Sills of the New York City Opera, where the orchestra was about to go on strike. They needed someone with experience in labor relations. When Sills asked Weinstein if he had the experience, he... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
guy, and he shall be missed by the marketing world. Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) I was a student of Professor Salmon’s in 1962 and 1963, an experience that was transformational for me and for my family business. In those years, as part of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
is wealthy enough so that, ideally, all its citizens should be taken care of and “some base level” of health care should be available to all. Buffett concluded with some professional and personal advice. “Go into a field that you have a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Fund for Leadership and Innovation has an immediate impact on the School’s ability to pursue new initiatives, and is the cornerstone of HBS’s economic model. Field-Based Learning FIELD 2 global immersions offer first-year MBA students a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight Eisenmann says students get... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
Paul W. Litchfield
substantial expansion and investments. Under his direction, Goodyear began to experiment in the development of airplane parts and fighter aircraft, becoming one of the ten largest producers in this field... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
approached with offers that met her needs. Now that her kids are nearing adolescence, she is ready to return again. She sees her maturity and experience as an advantage. "If the term multitasking wasn't invented by a woman, it should have... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
sold and moved outside the region. Now, he and his son Jonathan Kraft (MBA '90), the Patriots' vice chairman, have established the Pats as a solid NFL franchise and likely contender for years to come. "When we bought this team eight years ago, we wanted to win off the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
donors such as David Rubenstein also makes it possible for the School to provide faculty-designed and -led field experiences where students can experience leading in an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
advancing the next big idea. The School relies heavily on annual gifts to the HBS Fund for early-stage support of breakthrough projects, courses, programs, and other initiatives.” As ventures like Field Immersion View Details
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Emmanuel Mensah
come here acting like you know everything, you’ll embarrass yourself,” he laughs. But along with his gifts of experience and intelligence, Emmanuel has brought something else to his classes that his sectionmates deeply appreciate: a trove... View Details