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Magashe Ngoepe
forward, always safe, and always sure we would get to our end destination Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My mother. She completed several degrees while raising a family. We always went to sleep well fed,... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
finance, being involved in clubs, attending section events, and even just trying to sleep – it is absolutely imperative to ruthlessly prioritize your time. Know what you want to get out of this amazing experience before you start and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Wyatt Smith
toiled around the clock, every day of the week. And whenever my brothers and I weren't in school, we'd be beside him, building fences or feeding cattle rather than sleeping in or exploring with friends. As a child, I resented the early... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
down. It was an exciting, if unsettled, time. “Transition is very hard,” Enan says. “Now we know.” Over the next 18 months, she worked under three ministers of finance, sometimes sleeping at the office when protesters demanding... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
2021 I’m a vegetarian. I love escaping into the woods to live off the grid, sleep on the dirt, and eat over an open fire. I’m obsessive about minimizing waste and buying second hand. These are things my dad did too, but not by choice. My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
everybody because nobody will sleep with anybody when they have a new book of yours.” (Marlene Dietrich, 1975) The World According to Travis McGee “Far off on the north-south highways there was the insect sound of the fast moving trucks,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
were often severely outmanned by firms with overwhelming resources. Fighting over money and doing the right thing by your clients isn’t easy. However, I was able to sleep at night knowing that I had done everything I could to preserve... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
choices, be efficient, spend a lot of money on childcare (pre Covid...) and set up a lot of help, and sadly, deprioritize sleep and exercise. Funny HBS moment: In class one afternoon I was in pain from contractions, they were not real... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
addition, unconscious thought might be more dependable than conscious thought when we are low on energy. Preliminary research also indicates that using odor or sound cues during sleep might activate our unconscious mind and improve... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
a string of experiments to test how sleep affects decision making. After all, sleep can do many things—research has shown that a good eight hours of shut-eye can help make people more creative, more... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
plenty of water. Omega fatty acids, B and D vitamins, and antioxidants promote mental functioning; sugars and saturated fats impair it. Sleep As one of our wise CEOs noted, “The primary task of leaders is to avoid as many sleepless nights... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
Jesse Markham, an economist who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Markham, whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, was a well-known proponent of the “rule of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Desperate Sections
In April, this year’s HBS Show, An Offer You Can’t Refuse, explored in song and dance what happens when, in a metaphorical sense, entire HBS sections face the prospect of wearing cement overshoes and sleeping with the Charles River... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alice Prager
I want to be as frightened as Jack and the Beanstalk, As exhausted as Sleeping Beauty, As nervous as the Three Little Pigs, As excited as Cinderella, As bewildered as Alice in Wonderland, and As determined as the Little Engine That Could... View Details
- Portrait Project
Hope Carlson
I learned to sing at the same time I learned to talk. My dad would rock me to sleep every night and have me fill in the words to his lullabies. That's when my love for music was first sparked. To sing well, you have to let go. To accept... View Details
Ernest H. Volwiler
Volwiler was a pioneer in the field of anesthetic medicine, developing two breakthrough drugs, Nembutal and Pentothal, which put patients to sleep for surgical or dental procedures. Beyond his brilliance as a scientist, Volwiler was... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
myself for a day that I have a lot of points, but it's just a, again, probably a small game-ification to just encourage myself, on the margin, to be a little bit healthier. So for example, running a mile is 15 points, for sleep I have a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
morning. “I can sleep on the plane as easily as I can sleep in a bed,” he remarks. “The contrast between photography and the corporate world is really invigorating.” Asked for his top spots, Main Wilson... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Taking the Long View
Street , said, “Work hard and never give up, those were very valuable lessons I learned from trying to compete with Al.” Another Gordon lesson is the key to longevity. Known for long city walks and for climbing the stairs in skyscrapers, Gordon took up marathoning at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
former Baker Hall reopened as Esteves Hall in April, 165 HBS staffers spent a night eating and sleeping in the newly renovated Executive Education facilities to make sure everything was shipshape for the first students. View Details