Enhancing Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

remade his mother’s broken washing machine into a chair. He loved to work with wood, shaping a table out of raw planks. Transforming the things around him was an outlet, a way to make his vision a reality. Studying architecture was a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

got out of business school when I was 23 and went to work for TWA for a couple years, and then went in the Army in the interim and then went to work for Easton for a year. But we were, on the lee here is Bob... View Details

16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption

working in Southeast Asia for a young Silicon Valley startup called Kiva, which is a microfinance lender. Haryopratomo: I was on my motorbike traveling across Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia, and I was giving out loans and I realized... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

learning and the discussions that can help address these problems,” explains Kierstead. In an effort to bring those voices into the classroom to enhance the learning for everyone, the School has introduced measures to advance... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

13 May 2014
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Willing Hands

weekend work crew. "I remember being out there on the first day of framing," he says. "We went from slab to entirely completed walls in eight hours." In 2012, nearly 25 years after pounding nails and hanging drywall in that first house,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

04 May 2017
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Going the Distance

12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour

Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

thinking, “Wow! That’s really different from my current work environment.” After school I will remember what life was like here and how I learned to prioritize my time as far as what’s important to me. Tyler... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Mar 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise

Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; mentoring

04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby

alternative to get into the construction business. Because I used to see my brothers, they worked so hard day after day. And I had a chance at 12 years old to work on a racehorse farm in New Jersey. I think... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act

Class of 1925 February 1940 The first known casualty among the alumni of the Business School during the present war was Lt. Claus von Bohlen und Halbach, son of the head of the Krupp works in Essen, Germany. He was an aviator in the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2005
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Things Everyone Should Know How to Do

Management, is now at work on a guide to life at home. She invites HBS advice givers or seekers to visit her Web site at www.theexpertsguideto.com. Is there less intergenerational teaching in society today?... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

earnings grew 23 percent and debt was reduced. The life of any CEO of a multibillion-dollar company involves long hours, and given that Anglo American has a presence in 43 countries, Carroll spends more than half of her time traveling. A... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Better Hiring Through Brain Science

MORE Polli matches characteristics to career paths on the Skydeck podcast Polli launched Pymetrics in 2013 to fill this gap. A PhD in neuropsychology who spent a decade as a researcher at Harvard and MIT, Polli started working on the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976

crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John Doerr thinks big. Working side by... View Details

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets

those markets and potentially crash the economy. “We really want to protect the people who interact with, and rely on, the markets,” says Jones. “That could be a veteran, a teacher, or anyone who has their life savings invested in a 401K... View Details