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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
giving, plus inspiring donor profiles, visit HBS’s annual Contributors Report. VISIT REPORT Immersive Field Courses, offered for the first time in 2012, give second-year MBA students the opportunity to apply their learning hands-on with... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
and you might find yourself veering too far at times in one direction or the other. But with a solid, well-articulated framework in place, you’ll be able to correct for excesses and stay more or less in the middle View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
what recharges me the most.” What the business traveler wants: A comfortable, WiFi-connected room. Also: “They want to be left alone.” Her must-have travel accessories: An eye mask for catching up on sleep across multiple time zones;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
even to business and society in the near term, created by their operations. For just one example, earlier this year a New York Times article reported that a growing number of business leaders are viewing climate change as a threat to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
billion in revenues. That’s a staggering 45 percent—but all was not lost. During the downtime, as the arrival halls echoed with emptiness and the baggage carousels sat idle, many airports used the time to reimagine the passenger... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
percent outsourced. “We are absolute converts,” he said, citing the benefits of cost reduction, quality, and flexibility. The end of a contract is always a new opportunity to make improvements, demand more, and reprice. If IT workers were to transfer a project to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Zone Sales Leader at Frito-Lay in Dallas, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Joker One, a memoir of his experience as a Marine Corps officer in Iraq in 2004. View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor
could yield outsized returns for a professional investor. The countless examples of talented individuals ebbing and flowing into either role at different times (operator one day, investor the next) reinforced this insight. I knew that if... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Being Uncomfortable at HBS
novelty. If curiosity killed the cat. Then, lucky I am not a cat. Therefore, it isn’t a surprise that I enjoyed my time as a consultant, because it enabled me to jump from helping to develop a strategy for a large health system to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
There are going to be some cultural faux pas – at least likely to be, if you have never spent time in the USA or an international setting before. Do not fret over them but do learn from them. As an international student, one must also... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
increasingly have an expectation of reaching their attorneys at any hour of the day (or night) and getting responses in near-real time," he writes. "Reaching across time zones to contact someone is... View Details
- 10 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw
products, the time seemed right to take my next step and attend HBS. Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? Without 2+2, I likely would have stayed at Starry for much longer, continuing to work on technical... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, and co-chairman of the Social Enterprise Initiative. “HBS educates leaders who make a difference in the world, and as the Leadership Fellows grow in their careers, their time with these... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- Profile
Damien Hooper-Campbell
of soul searching, "I realized what really drives me is people; that's the thread in my life." Even though he would have to accept a fifty percent pay cut, Damien joined the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone in Harlem, writing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
come with moving. Do we need comprehensive reform to address issues related to land values? —Dick Carlson (MBA 1961) OAKES: It’s essential. “Exclusionary” zoning policies result in segregated communities (both economically and racially).... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
prohibiting others from doing so, presumably in return for favors. Some favored international funds managers with investments spread across time zones who have a continuing stream of fresh investment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
last year with about 1,200 employees working asynchronously (that is, not on the same schedule, handing off work each day from one employee and one time zone to another) in 75 countries with no headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980)... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
so it took time for me to feel confident in my appearance,” Girard explained. “I found my place and my confidence after I became an athlete.” Girard was not just any athlete either, her athletic ability and drive led her to a professional... View Details