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- Portrait Project
Emilka Valentova
investment opportunities, I saw random numbers scattered across Excel. I was a star extinguished. I planned to be no more. Diagnosis: depression. I heard it many times: Don't talk. Don't share. Don't show. A black cab picked me up from a... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla
product roadmap. How has having an MBA impacted your career? We're a startup most of our future customers have never heard of. HBS gives me credibility when selling to larger companies. While HBS helped shape the way I think about the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Portrait Project
Tracy Williams
life of the party. Young and naïve, I was lured in by his kindness and flirtations. He stole my right to choose and robbed me of my joy. Feeling like a failure, I left my dream school and life took me down a different path. I moved back... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year
feel valued, and that means ensuring their voices are heard and providing fair compensation to support their lives outside of the office. Create transparency in the salary review process and share ranges for... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face of a key employee darkening... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- Portrait Project
Alexander Kamenskov
announcement in the news. Perestroika was proclaimed when I was born. Seven years of change, and my nation was still at a crossroads, yet again in civil unrest. On that day, shooting stopped. I was walking in the street with my parents View Details
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
and one which has at times in the last month had a market value greater than all other major airlines combined, two phenomena that may not be coincidental. Since September 11, however, I have heard countless friends, associates, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
have. Growing up, Wiley and her sister Sharon Pratt Kelly (who served as mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1995) often heard their attorney father talk about the effect of his work on the lives of others. "Obviously, who you become... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- Profile
Beau D'Arcy
boaters and non-boaters alike." How did your family and friends respond when they heard the idea? "When I first told my parents, I think they were a little skeptical. It's a big idea that's way outside the box, so most people's... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
is, on their own, without family involvement) and when they did, individual rituals were not associated with holiday enjoyment. In sum, three studies consistently demonstrate that family rituals on holidays are associated with feelings of... View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Cambridge to Nairobi
in the Haitian earthquake, and collect eyewitness reports in Gaza and Somalia. During my first year at HBS, I wanted to find a job that blended my previous experiences—technology and government—as well as provided new opportunities for learning. I first View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
prospective students (many whom became my classmates). Not only that, but each person I met (from current students to staff to prospective students) was so much more encouraging than I expected. I really appreciated the level of humility that I was met with and it made... View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Section Life: Your HBS Family
Before I arrived at HBS, I had heard a lot about sections and how they really impacted people’s experiences as students here. People who graduated decades earlier told me how they still stay in touch with their section mates and how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
another successful round of reunions in early October, the Alumni Association Board of Directors met on campus October 19 and 20 for its regular fall meeting. We heard from Professor Howard Stevenson, senior associate dean and director of... View Details
- 16 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
My HBS Journey
View Video As I find myself looking out the window, as the airplane leaves Boston behind, I realize just how special the MBA experience was at HBS. Before I came here I heard from a few people, "You probably won't learn that much... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
didn’t know much about HBS at that point. But when I heard about the option to actually do a combined degree, I started thinking that might be a really interesting thing to do. “I’m interested in revamping how we deliver health care. I... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
Many people assume that nostalgia is purely entertainment, a feeling individuals enjoy because it takes them back to the more carefree days of their youth. Some view it as maladaptive fixation on the past, perhaps indicating a fear of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
York. Besides business, I am very interested in politics and government, so during my college summers I also did several internships on presidential campaigns and in the U.S. Senate. Although I majored in Chemistry and Physics in college and worked in management... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
I saw in studying winning streaks and losing streaks in sports as well as businesses and nations, it’s easy to appear united when your team is winning. Divisiveness tends to characterize losing streaks, in which people try to hold on to power because they View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne