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29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

much unstoppable when he sets his sights on something. In the past, that has included carving green space out of Atlanta’s urban wastelands; writing legislation to preserve Georgia’s Native American archaeological sites threatened by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

“The events of Tuesday have touched everyone deeply in some way, and we are all struggling to find hope in the face of despair.” —Dean Kim B. Clark As it has so often on important occasions in Harvard Business School's 93-year history, the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

the book and I talked to business people and I talk to a really fascinating woman who’s an HBS, I think class of '05, Yael Melamed (MBA 2005), who is, she's a psychotherapist and she deals with relationships. I talked to all these amazing people and interviewed them to... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

directors to excel. Fatal Impressions: Coleman and Dinah Greene Mystery No. 2 by Reba White Williams (MBA 1970) (The Story Plant) Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

and extraordinarily detailed maps. Leading YOU: The Power of Self-Leadership to Build your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) (Global Insight Communications, LLC) The most important driver of overall... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

shamrock, it reads: Green with Envy.) “Entrepreneurship is not only a great way to enjoy the work you’re doing as the owner of a business,” says Dillon, “but it’s a really great way to add value to society.” Although she’s not yet certain... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

India are “super hungry for electrons—particularly green electrons,” Shendure explains. And wave intensity off southwestern India is just right. The waves are big enough to generate lots of electricity but not so big that Oscilla would... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?

around to you. That one’s probably brewed too hot. So this is a little bit of a delicate green tea. I can just tell tasting, it’s like it was probably brewed with, like, boiling water and it can’t handle that. So that’s why it’s got like... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

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