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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
protectionism could prevent nations from achieving the gains - in household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality-of-life metrics - of cross-border openness. Ghemawat describes how private businesses, policymakers,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
actually holding my newborn baby in my arms when I got the call, and could see on the phone that it was the breast surgeon calling. And I knew that the fact that she was calling on a Saturday, with the results of my biopsy, that it... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
evidence of management ability and leadership potential, while Tamblyn probes for hard analytical skills. Yet both scrutinize resumes with the equivalent of “x-ray specs,” hoping to find hidden qualities that could be meaningful for their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
Technology Venture Immersion and Launch Lab I/II, guided me to achieve the proper mindset to start my own company. As I saw others fearlessly jump into their own ideas, I realized I really needed three key things to start a company: high... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
mindset to make you more strategic or more efficient with your time—but there’s not much research on that yet. Recently, we studied how people could spend their discretionary income to promote happiness:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
commitment to bringing on talented Summer Associates who could contribute to the firm now and in the future, the team pressed on with a ‘how’ mindset as they worked to create an engaging and impactful summer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
reviews are actually the single most important input to our new product development process. We make sure that our new products start from the needs that customers express,” Yang said in an interview in 2016. “Traditional businesses should embrace the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
on one of our host’s horses. It was a beautiful day, and as I rode I began to see all kinds of wildlife—impalas, dik-diks, wildebeests, giraffes. I got closer to the game on horseback than I ever could have in a vehicle because, to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
because education provides the leverage to change people’s mindsets and enable them to be successful.” Cenat believes that business can be a catalyst for social change, and she is deeply grateful for the HBS financial aid that has set her... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
encountered a political phone vendor was in 1983. He was 26 years old at the time, serving as deputy campaign manager for a gubernatorial candidate in his native Mississippi. A Washington-based consultant came down to pitch the campaign on his phone services. He View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New York. In many ways the trading... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
company's vision." Charlie Efford added that "The key to self-management becoming embedded is changing the mindset of the management team. Most corporations haven't made this shift." Denis Collet suggested "it's all... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
commented that this mindset "leads to poor morale and burn out," as well as a loss of effective communication skills. Gerald Nanninga added that "it is destroying the art of pondering" and "by valuing work as a... View Details
- Web
Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
semester in undergrad of organic chemistry, I realized I didn’t love medicine enough to commit to the long training. What I did love was my introduction to mechanical engineering. I eventually pivoted to mechanical and biomedical engineering, realizing I View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
to a law degree that spoke to Ramirez. “Econ was the one that made things make sense. It was quantitative enough and also just theoretical enough,” she shared. “Also, I needed to make sure that I could get a job. So, it was transferable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
knew its impact could extend far beyond her own situation. It meant she could devote herself to Rocket Learning, the nonprofit she had launched in 2020 with her brother, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019), which... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
the person who ran our COVID-19 operations, Josh Geballe, had previously been an 11-year executive at IBM who also started a successful tech company. He really drove the entire vaccine response, and it was that MBA mindset that enabled... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the China business as part of a global portfolio, under a range of geopolitical scenarios. The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times By Robert McLean and Charles Conn (MBA 1990) Wiley The world is changing faster and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience in the Joint MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program
engineers. We all kind of connect on a certain level because we all have an interest in staying somewhat technical, but we also came back to school. We came to get an MBA. We all have high ambitions for ourselves and high hopes of what we View Details