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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
worked at Bain long enough to get that “business is war” mindset — don’t turn your back too long or else.... What’s the most rewarding aspect of your job? Seeing the impact of HBR. I recently gave a speech to a group of CEOs, and one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
must be like to be a celebrity. I wrote a case study on Maria Sharapova, and her agent allowed me to shadow her for a day and a half. I saw her receive an award and give a speech at the United Nations, interact with sponsors, attend a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
it's a verbal tick. It's no big deal really." Then Sheryl said to me, "I know this great speech coach, and I'm sure Google would pay for it. Would you like an introduction?" Once again, I made this brush-off gesture with my hand. Then... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
'83) gave the final keynote speech and discussed many themes that were heard throughout the day: entrepreneurship, decision-making, failure, family, and mentoring. "Courage does not mean not being afraid," Carpenter told the crowd, "it... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
one's self to that place of actionable optimism. Bonita: Sadly, my father passed away when I was a freshman in college, so you can imagine just the notion of never giving up and having grit. But it was through divine intervention. In my mid-career, I found a View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
A. Farrington (MBA 1976). “The exposure for the club, for the School, and for the work that the club does to support the community is outstanding and would be difficult to accomplish in any other way. And, it was just incredibly fun. The room was full, the audience was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Bob Vanourek (MBA 1966) (Motivational Press Inc.) Vanourek has selected poems, prose or speech passages, and curious verse, each example with insights into leadership. He follows these pearls with engaging commentary from his own... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
talk about toilets and sanitation. This was like, my gosh. I mean, the last thing I would’ve expected of a first speech by the Prime Minister on his first Independence Day speech. And so, there was no looking back after that because I... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
same month, the Vatican held the “Investing for the Poor” conference, which included an impact-investing talk featuring Bannick as well as speeches by the CEOs of Catholic Relief Services and the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. And while these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
learning. Never before has there been such a need for a top-flight research center." In a final speech to the group, George Yeo praised his alma mater's bold bid to expand. "If an institution stops changing, it dies," he said, hailing... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, endorsed Edwards and criticized Taylor for not offering specifics on key issues. The News described Taylor as a “rookie who’s long on cash and slash-and-burn campaigning but short on answers.” In a speech... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
"We need to hold the standards higher. And for a school like ours, it's unacceptable." And I gave a speech in front of the entire school at an auditorium and people were cheering me on and it was great. And I won. And about maybe a week... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Foundation in Chicago did a one-hour speech. And the one-hour speech was imploring the audience in one of the prominent business clubs in Chicago to support financial reparations to the Black community. I'd never heard or seen anything... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
specializes in speech recognition software. "That's proven true for our company time and time again. We decided to raise money from a prominent computer maker because of the credibility and opportunities such an association would provide,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
one-year-old son’s giggles when you kiss his neck, and seeing a new bird in my backyard. I will focus on...writing the rough draft for the speech I have next week. We’re awake 1,000 minutes a day on average. Most of us work at least 500... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
months pregnant with her second child, Clara, and delivering a speech to hundreds of Disney executives in Frankfurt - she recalls thinking, "This is ridiculous!" Dodi explains, "More than anything, it was the travel that became impossible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Associate Professor Cuddy presents a scientifically grounded way to align our speech and nonverbal behavior with our beliefs, abilities, and values to produce a synchronized inner state that resonates and connects with others. In this... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
accustomed to partisan division. Mitsotakis called the result “a window to the future.” In his acceptance speech in July 2019, Mitsotakis called upon the hundreds of thousands of Greeks who left the country during the chaos of the crisis... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
interesting first-year experiences. 1.One day was picked as mirror-opposite day. Everyone had to dress and act like the person sitting in their mirror-opposite seat for the day. You had to work in their mannerisms and quirks of speech as... View Details