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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
missed the call. That led to the development of Skullcandy’s first product, called Link, a device that enabled headphones to have two plugs so you could switch back and forth between music and phone. We took off from there in the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
leadership skills were apparent. After the collapse of the tech stock market, Trilogy bought pcOrder back as a subsidiary, and Jones led the acquisition integration team. Now 34 and single, Jones’s next start-up may hit home with many in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
participants were far less concrete than this. "If there was one moment or one session that sticks out to me, it's the one that was led by Frances Frei," says Jernigan of KIPP Metro Atlanta. "Her lecture really challenged us with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
same or increasing. So what should business schools, and HBS in particular, be teaching? Morals, ethics, and values led by a wide margin, followed by globalization, entrepreneurship, technology, and leadership. Suggested essentials for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get started, and what were the norms that led to this disregard for traditional verities? Kanter: The two big messages of the 1990s were “The old rules don't hold” and “There... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaders have led very different career and life journeys but have shared a common approach to propel themselves and others to success. This approach involves the P-Ling Power framework, which the authors explicate: its genesis, how it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
connects tech companies to African software engineers. And in this episode of Skydeck, Sulyman talks to associate editor Julia Hanna about how his work is empowering Africa—and about the journey that led him to this mission. READ MORE... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
moment Vescovo was the only one who knew that—at 10,928 meters below sea level—he had traveled deeper than any human before him. His name would go in the record books alongside others who had pushed themselves to the extreme: Roald Amundsen, who View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
didn’t become the super-hot screenwriter after Fifth Estate. But I got the movie made, which led to more projects.” Last year he got the call for The Post, for example, because Steven Spielberg had read Spotlight and First Man. “We were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
alongside the contributions that Rachel Carson made to the field of conservation biology, is her legacy. Unlike the other leaders in this book, Carson led quietly. She worked mostly in private, exercising resilience, forbearance, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
with looked almost nothing alike,” and that, most participants agree, is an important feature of the contest. Perry’s research led him to “disqualify” his initial idea and sent him down a different path. While Anthony K. Tjan (MBA 1998)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
1981, dba 1995), professor (ret.), Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts Although she never seeks attention for herself, Irene Rosenfeld is on just about every "most powerful" list and her accomplishments in leading Kraft Foods over the past seven years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that happiness was the common reward for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Gompers found that the gender of male venture capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
continued, and environmental groups led a global boycott of paper producers that worked with local logging companies. In the late 1990s, negotiations began between the logging companies and the environmental groups; the tentative... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous