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- 01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning
and board directors I worked with at Outward Bound,” he explained. However, during a “fascinating, intellectually engaging, intense, and ultimately life-changing” two years at HBS, Pearson unexpectedly “fell in love” with the economics of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
its own idiosyncratic preferences. The CEO controls the company culture. One key, I think, is to listen broadly, with an open mind. The board of directors is an important sounding board, but the CEO is in a position to gather and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
launch in Mexico. Having just signed her last contract with Time Inc., Moore is focused on finding her successor. "Too few CEOs and boards are doing a responsible job of succession planning these days. That's why so many corporations are... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
shifting carbon footprint when they have a big life event? Jen Flint: One of the side effects of this crisis has been that we all abruptly stopped getting in our cars and boarding airplanes, we stopped all kinds of activities that also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
“Let’s make fashion smart,” Shin quips, a phrase Foalea later borrows as the perfect tagline. Foalea looks at her watch: 11:45 a.m. “Let’s get started on creating the app mock-ups before lunch,” she says. Behrens breaks out the art supplies: paper, scissors, colored... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Massachusetts,” he says, adding that his goal is to “put ourselves out of business.” DECEMBER 15 Eighteen months ago, when Bill Hatanaka (AMP 115, 1994) was appointed the inaugural chair of the Board of Ontario Health, the organization... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
going to be big losers. And I think it's just going to take collaboration across the board that is starting to come. DM: You were just talking about what it's going to take to sort of meet this challenge. It's a lot of collaboration. But... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
his mind: “You’ve been away from India for over fourteen years, and unless you spend some time there to understand the environment, you won’t get an understanding of the opportunity or know if you really want to work there.” Within two weeks, Varma View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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From Das’s Desk
their professional and personal growth. Users are able to easily sort the content based on their professional or personal interests—such as entrepreneurship, work-life balance, health care, diversity and inclusion, and board... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
than in satellites. Approximately half of all satellites launched today are CubeSats—shoebox-sized satellites that can be made for $50,000-$200,000 and launched for $30,000-$500,000 on board a scheduled flight that has extra cargo space.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
advice do you have for current HBS students who hope to launch their own companies? "Make the time to connect with your HBS classmates and use them as a sounding board for your business ideas. When you're knee deep in building your... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
school board more satisfying than sitting in Congress because he was actually doing something. He is not alone, and there are a lot of reasons for it. But we cannot afford that. We need enough new people to come in and question it, people... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
come in-- never, not once, has anyone ever landed this plane without killing every single person on board in the simulator. And if you ask Richard de Crespigny why he was able to do this-- and I've spoken to him a dozen times-- he will... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
"It has been very rewarding doing this work. These companies have been through so much horror, and then they have to figure out how to start up all over again. They really appreciate even the littlest things we do for them. It's inspired me to become a View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
the way to the Canadian border—a “thrilling education.” And the summer after that, he bought a Model T for $50 and drove from New England to British Columbia. There, he sold the broken-down car for train fare and rode the boards back... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
harnessing innovation efforts across campus. In the year ahead, a number of those innovative ideas will move from the drawing board to the classroom and beyond. Perhaps the most significant innovation is the new, yearlong Field Immersion... View Details