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- 06 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers
more than halfway through my MBA journey, and I am very happy that I decided to apply two years ago. This past year has been an incredible and full of new learnings for both me and my family. The case method has taught me to express my... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
lesson gave me a ton of confidence moving forward with ZipBooks, and I’ve been incredibly happy that I did. Even though I had some great opportunities that were hard to turn down, for me, the HBS experience was the perfect segue into... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Harf's daughter Katharina, who serves as DKMS's COO. Like the happy endings that Harf has brought to many blood cancer patients, there is a silver lining to his personal struggle with loss. In 1995, while promoting a line of cosmetics for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
has steered off course. What do men and women not get about each other? Women just don’t get that men are remarkably simple. A sandwich, some sports on TV, and sex — you’ve got a happy man. Women are unnecessarily complicated, and men... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
Depression, a time when markets were functioning poorly. We were happy to see an approach like this included in the administration's white paper. Q: What are the drawbacks of your proposal? A: One concern is that if we are going to rely... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
alike: (1) securing the future through innovation strategies suitable for an emerging "white coat economy" that is discovery-based; (2) pursuing happiness by addressing the connection between work and family life and reinventing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
her time between factory floors, design meetings, setting the strategy, and crunching the numbers. “I’m happy that I was there as the production manager when we started out, but I had to determine the best use of my time and skill sets... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
firm," Hilsinger relates. Last year an energy fund managed by Accel Group decided to invest in Mavel, and as part of Mavel's management team, Hilsinger is watching over that investment. "The Czech Republic was a new world to me, but I am very View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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Unpacking Hidden Risk in the Trusted Treasury Market | Working Knowledge
large supply of Treasuries that the market needs to absorb. One particularly concerning thing that I talked about in the conclusion of the paper is that unlike in March 2020, when the Fed was happy to do quantitative easing to support the... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
matter how successful you are in your career, you will never be happy unless you are respecting your loved ones with the gift of your time, your presence, and your full attention, even if it requires you to step away from work at times... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress produced a stronger negative effect on happiness than... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
business school. They might be somewhere else. There is no organizational structure in place that's really dedicated to making this happen. There is no thinking around the culture, around how do we make this place more comfortable so that people of color will be View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
forthcoming World Happiness Report Happiness and Prosocial Behavior: An Evaluation of the Evidence By: Aknin, Lara B., A.V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract— Humans are an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
B. Yeats once wrote: “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” Closing thoughts There’s good news for those interested in gaining technical literacy during... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
The Answers: It depends on the company’s goals. We’ve seen many examples of DTCs that had to scale and go to retail faster than they were ready, due to investor pressure. If Saigal is happy with the current scale and performance, she... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
and Mateo. While his father desperately wanted Rodríguez and his brother to attend Harvard (his brother earned a master’s degree at the Kennedy School), he says his own approach to parenting is more flexible: “As long as they are passionate and try hard, I will be... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
comes in a carcass, customer preferences, share size, order history. Formulas propose a suggested share, based on a selection of items we think will maximize this member’s happiness—within the constraints of our inventory,” Cummings says. View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
action by citizens and policy-makers alike: (1) securing the future through innovation strategies suitable for an emerging "white coat economy" that is discovery-based; (2) pursuing happiness by addressing the connection between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne