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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- Web
Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining, processing, and transmitting information are changing the way we do business. Read More Related News 26 August 2001 BusinessWeek Q&A: Caught in the Net by John A. Byrne... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Social divisions arise between rural and urban areas Women's suffrage Harlem Renaissance Rampant bootlegging and organized crime Influence: Medium 30 1930 s 19 Escapism in radio serials Prohibition repealed Golden... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
steps create the probability that you will not be controlled by your fears," DeLong writes. "It means that as you begin a new behavior, begin a new relationship, take on a new job, or start on a challenging new assignment, you have the capability to avoid or... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
mineralization reaction. With our technology, CO2 is turned to rock in under a year and can never escape back into the atmosphere. What about this technology excites you? The advantage of our process is that it's truly permanent and it's... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
—Stephen Coit (MBA 1977) Back to top Name Dropping In the instances that follow, alums find that specific lessons from a case linger, even if the name of the case has since escaped memory. Do you remember these cases? If so, leave a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ahmed Farag
I am torn between two worlds. Born in a place where people are forgotten, I often contemplate how I can serve as a beacon of hope. Yet, I have escaped to another world, where I can propel my own happiness. Alone in the darkness, the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
college life, and our relationship developed because we both needed each other to cope with the stresses of leaving home. Ashley helped me escape the everyday grind of West Point by offering a shoulder to lean on and a listening ear –... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Dinh Thi Hoa (MBA '92) was a young girl when relatives and friends who feared for her safety spirited her out of Hanoi in the summer of 1972 to escape the fury of U.S. bombing attacks against North Vietnam. She still remembers returning... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
loved the exchange of ideas. He loved seeing young people who were eager to learn.” Levitt was born in 1925 in Vollmerz, Germany, and moved with his family to Dayton, Ohio, a decade later to escape the encroaching Nazi threat. Drafted... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
that darkness that you can actually develop and evolve,” he said. “You could experiment; there was no orthodoxy.” These moments—the creative rush and his immersion in the work—were not just thrilling but also empowering. “The expression and the View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
We just talked about whatever was on our minds, from the psychological to the philosophical to the entrepreneurial. It became an escape from the everyday; a bit of intellectual therapy for both of us. Since Howard was then one of the most... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
seeing a problem from many perspectives. Have you found a way to teach people to better understand difference? Gino: As Frances and I were thinking about this, I came back to an experience of being in an escape room, which is something... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
let out of school. The circus was gaudy, noisy, and bustling. It represented an escape from the mundane into a world of intrigue and adventure. However, by the 21st century, the circus had begun to lose its appeal. Had an overreliance on... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
and then that is forever part of your known identity. But coming out is a process I have to repeat again and again. Any time I meet a new person, or am in a new context, it has to be re-explained. Especially now that I am dating a man, it's hard to View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Escapism in radio serials Prohibition repealed Golden age of movies Influence: Medium-Low 40 1940 s 19 Patriotism soars GI Bill Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Social conformity McCarthyism Membership in organized religion soars Brown... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
lives, it is difficult to escape coverage of climate change in the media today. With many countries as well as companies declaring their net-zero ambitions, it is tempting to think that business leaders have accepted the inevitable and... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
those of many other AAPIs, immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam with no money. When the North Vietnamese took over the city of Saigon, my grandparents were forced to sign away their businesses to the government and escaped persecution of... View Details