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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
with the demands of career and family. “It’s a trick, a skill, an art, a science that very few people manage,” he said. After the highs of achievement, Sahlman broached the darker subject of tough times. “You turned immediately to me. This is extremely worrying,” View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
places that aren’t on most people’s vacation lists. “My wife often jokes that every vacation we’ve taken since we first met involves visiting an orphanage or refugee camp,” says Wu, who is driven by a desire to help others just as he and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Property), lured by the prospect of exciting careers in a hot market. But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble.—Stephen Lebovitz, CBL & Associates... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
are being deployed on the lending side,” he says. Cummings, who jokes that he’s “going from pretend farmer to pretend banker,” submitted the banking charter and FDIC insurance applications in August 2021 and hopes to have a provisional... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
about, encourage manners and taught you to do avoid contradicting others in public. Kim: Yes. Dan: How hard was it for you personally to overcome that tradition and embrace this idea of radical candor? Kim: I like to joke that in many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
single-handedly take credit for the resurgence in board games,” jokes Furlong, “but that’s probably a little presumptuous.” He does, however, believe that Cranium’s success has made an impact on the market. “We have developed a solid... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
David Collis Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration The joke used to be that you could only make a million dollars in the airline industry if you started with a hundred million dollars. With the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
joked that after our weekly two-hour class with Professor Ghosh, we felt like we had gone to church and confession for the week.” Guram:“Regina Herzlinger. Her belief in the power of entrepreneurship and market innovation to improve... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
industries like software. “Industry is not destiny.” Take the airline business, for example, which, over its history, has an accumulated net loss in the billions—a classic B-school example of a structurally unattractive industry. A joke... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
simplified the application process, asking business owners for only a bank statement as part of their mobile-based loan application, and delivering funds to successful applicants within 48 hours. “The joke we crack is that with most... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
customer. All the aspects of the profession that had to do with promoting change and overcoming resistance made the figure of the salesperson popular to fiction writers—and most of the characterizations have been negative, from jokes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Custom Home and a Web site (www.ownerbuilderbook.com) for owner-builders. After losing money for four years and just breaking even in the fifth, Smith jokes that this year, “there may not be a way to avoid it — we might just turn a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
talked about pymetrics, and the joke has always been, oh, my God, I'm going to take it, and it's going to tell me I'm good for nothing, right? So what it's taught me is that that's actually true, that people range greatly in their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
bottom up: Staff writer, story editor, coproducer, producer, supervising producer, co-executive producer, executive producer, show runner. “Titles in Hollywood mean everything and nothing. Executive producer sounds very important, but there are seven or eight of us on... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Fisher’s third liquid asset. She and Koch had been married for 18 years when she joined his company’s board, yet she jokes that he says, “I’m off the clock” when it comes to discussing business at home. Still, they do occasionally talk... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
product in small-scale beauty salons and then also to electrologists. He also started up a mail-order business, all out of the 400-square-foot bungalow. He was tireless and worked hard to earn some early successes; one day, one of his better beauty shop customers View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
remember his class and I remember the closing wisdom, and I remember the very last thing he said. And the very last thing of all he said was, if I can give you one last piece of advice in life, if you're going to get married just do me one favor and find someone that... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was president of his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
what should be looked at with skepticism.” Massie recalls one of his HBS professors once joking that entrepreneurship is finding ways to do things that you want using other people's resources. “I identify in many ways with being an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was... View Details