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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
the United States, remittances have become an expected supplement to many family incomes, even as the U.S. economy worsens and many immigrants return. Toting sleeping bags and a change of clothes, we set out on foot to explore the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
through the tangle of laws and policies around banking and operating in such unprecedented circumstances. This is the part of the job that weighs most heavily on her heart, and McKenna acknowledges losing sleep worrying about the safety... 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
"principles for getting a lot done." Now in his new book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours (Harvard Business Review Press), he shares more performance-enhancing tips on everything from how to sleep better on... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sculpt your body and help you prevent back pain and sleep better; and a holistic mind-body approach that really works. Faculty Books Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time by Geoffrey Jones Edward Elgar Publishing... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
actually after 8:30pm after my son goes to sleep. I have this golden three, four hours that is just so uninterrupted. I was not at the office, I was not distracted, I was at home and I could just be by myself and when it's quiet at night even though people are View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
between the bloom of an idea and its light-of-day launch. There’s a lot of work to be done, Whitman acknowledges, but she remains focused, unworried. She sleeps just fine at night. “Fundamentally the direction is clear,” she says, “but... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
she worked under three ministers of finance, sometimes sleeping at the office when protesters demanding reparations for martyrs of the revolution made it impossible to go home. That was when she decided to apply to HBS. "I was young and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
the Battle of the Bulge. Green knew little about these events. He was focused on finding his team a warm place to sleep and enough to eat. Some nights they took refuge in a sheepherder’s shed or in makeshift barracks of the partisans, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
enclosure and conjured up a storm of powdery snow inside. Huddled in his sleeping bag wearing all his clothing, Moore fretted quietly about the terrain they would encounter above. The expedition had been plagued throughout by delays and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
The consequence of that is that I would work on that from say 6pm to 9pm. My wife would sleep at 8pm and I would not see her. And it was very difficult and it was very sad. And one day I asked this manager, I said, When do you read the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha
personally: His marriage ended, and a dear friend passed away. Pasricha started a blog, 1000 Awesome Things, “just as a way to put a smile on my face before I went to sleep every night.” In fact, a lot of people smiled. A month after the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
engage (or not engage) in our workplaces, homes, and communities. A Boyhood in Wartime Britain by Michael H. Coles (MBA 1961) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Collecting shrapnel from his front yard; identifying incoming bombers by their silhouettes; View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
can put that one aside and not worry about that for a hundred years, at least. That is not happening, so you can sleep soundly at night. If you're worried about that there will be more and more powerful tools to do more and more good and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
of patients sent home by hospitals with no access to care or food. With the mission statement “no one sleeps hungry in our community,” Jadhav recruited 50 volunteers, including medical doctors and business executives, and signed up 80... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
daily conversation with all of them and supporting them financially, I am intimately familiar with the daily fears, dangers, and challenges that these people face. People facing bombings and fire, sleeping in bomb shelters with their kids... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
Augusti, held her hand for several hours during the final climb up the mountain. “He was my savior. There is no way I could have done it without him,” said Linda, who at the end of the climb gave him her brand-new sleeping bag to show her... View Details