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- 14 Oct 2014
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Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
A freak accident at age 21 left Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) a quadriplegic. It was a moment that led him, ultimately, to cast off from a career in wealth management at Goldman Sachs to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps people with physical and View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
through a range of initiatives, including a complimentary employee shuttle service, free and subsidized child care, and classes in emotional intelligence. “Rural America is the Detroit of 2008,” Scharfman said. “As a model for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Staying Afloat
Enter Robert Pollan (MBA '88), then thirty years old, a man with a plan that became the blueprint for Szczecin's transformation. "It was a unique moment in history," said Pollan. "My parents were Polish; there were lots of emotional... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Support for the Healers
by the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Health Care in Boston, Schwartz Rounds provide an opportunity for health caregivers to gather and reflect on the emotional aspects of their work. Point of Care provides organizational assistance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Howard's Gift
teacher who pioneered the study of entrepreneurship, Stevenson (now emeritus) is also known by many people as the same caring friend he became to Sinoway. The real goal to strive for in life, Stevenson teaches, is satisfaction, rather than success. Blending View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fish Story
percent, thanks to Bertarelli’s gift). An America’s Cup–winning sailor and scuba diver, Bertarelli estimates that the Chagos sanctuary’s protected fish population will grow by 150 percent in just two or three years. “Human beings like being rewarded for their work and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of emotions stirred up,” says Ratajczak, a white man from Calabasas,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
manage by business fundamentals and a very strong internal compass. Business is about more than facts and figures. It’s about real emotion and how people react to emotion, and that has to be understood and factored in by a leader, just as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
capital and labor, disconnecting business from society and posing conflicts between them. She advocates a new approach to leadership and corporate behavior in which companies exhibit, among other things, a common purpose, a long-term view, View Details
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
traveling “sound effects guy” on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show, “doing what I used to do behind teachers’ backs.” He uses acoustic technology to enhance the art of storytelling. “Information is in words,” says Newman, “but all the View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
corporate world when he was working his way up the ranks: mindfulness, stress resilience, sleep training, and emotional intelligence skills. “With ongoing change and disruption, the crisis business is now facing on a global scale is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
emotions and self-narratives can drive a firm’s trajectory and, ultimately, its value. The cast of characters includes Petja Stoyanovic (Stoy Food’s 83-year-old founder and CEO) and his three children: Katrina (VP, private label... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
week in August and off campus for a week in September. Wyman’s aha moment seventeen years ago came when program participants were challenged to take colored pens and draw their lives. “Mine was a two-dimensional graph in black, and that’s when I realized I’d squeezed... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
a large failing school in the Bronx. Seeing the students have to walk through metal detectors, seeing the teachers struggling to teach with even the most basic resources lacking, really inspired me on an emotional level that this is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
centrally, frozen, and distributed to multiple locations, thereby allowing quality control, reduced cost, and consistency. Most importantly, customers have an emotional attachment to their favorite desserts — they come back for more, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Artful Contributions
shape the museum’s collections and programs. ARTnews magazine last summer ranked the couple among the world’s top 200 art collectors. “Terry has the passion and emotional voltage of the collector, balanced with the reasoned, businesslike... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
session. Students don’t want to be embarrassed, surprised, or shamed. They shouldn’t arrive with those emotions engulfing them. I must illustrate that even when one of them is not prepared or wastes class time with comments that don’t... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies
can help all employees work together more effectively, including building awareness of the emotional dynamics involved in cross-language business communications; creating safe environments for language practice; and reinforcing an... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
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Lifting Fallen Families
fundraising with individuals and large corporate partners, and partnerships with Veterans Affairs, the nonprofit continues to see increases in its gifts to families and the number of people the organization is able to find and assist. The View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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The Great Priority Reset
interrupted in the worst way, and we’re now seeing a big return of passengers flying to recapture important emotional connections, whether that’s intergenerational travel as families or spending time with family or friends to celebrate... View Details