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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through analysis of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Fall Reunions
Members of the Class of 1977 were treated to a special presentation by Professor Joe Badaracco on "The Moral Leader: Fiction As a Lens on Leadership". Photography by Stuart Cahill, C.J. Gunther, and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons. More than twelve... View Details
- Portrait Project
Laurent Chenot
companies or their lives. I want to write creative fiction that entertain people but also make them think. I want to raise my kids for whoever they are and not for what I want them to be. I want to be a true support for my partner,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Last Look
identify this photo as related to the Business Game competition. But what students, and when? Demer, who says it’s the 1960s, recalls that the game required small groups of students to make key budget decisions and “balance marketing, R&D, and other expenditures” for a... View Details
- Career Coach
Becca Carnahan
resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles and specializes in personal branding and storytelling. Becca is a proud working mom of two from Massachusetts and writes about her humorous parenting experiences for her blog and other top parenting websites. Work... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
Alumni Explore Challenge of Digital Shift More than 80 alumni around the world attended the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s Virtual Roundtable (VRT), “Digital Transformation – Facts, Fiction and Beliefs” via Webex on March 24.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
Tsai’s (MBA 1989) Napa winery, Moone-Tsai. THE SAMURAI: Tōru “Decades of business memos” led Stephanie Spong (MBA 1992) to embrace the “freedom of fictional storytelling” under the pseudonym Stephanie R. Sorensen. Her first novel, Tōru:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Linda Leung
In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the real-world technology behind the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
the Bible, and Wheel of Fortune. Here, just two of the artists, philosophers, fictional characters, and others who make cameo appearances in this guide to finance and the good life: (Getty Images/Bettmann) (Getty Images/Bettmann) Wallace... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
fictional three-party negotiation between a primary insurer and two reinsurers. It is appropriate for use in a wide variety of courses, including Financial Institutions, Negotiations, and courses related to the Insurance and Reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction writing a full-time pursuit... View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Making a broader impact with multiple disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)
platform dedicated to revolutionizing health care innovation through experiential learning. Autonomous surgical robots, health care artificial intelligence, targeted therapeutics, and AR/VR surgery—what was once science fiction now helps... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
greatest wizard of all time. Although Barron's novels are generally found in the science fiction or young adult sections of bookstores, his intentions transcend such categories. "I'm writing for thoughtful people of all ages, people who... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Bookshelf: “I read sci-fi and fantasy fiction with my 15-year-old son. We really enjoy anything by V. E. Schwab. There’s also a Scholomance series, by Naomi Novik, that we enjoyed—just imagine Hogwarts meets the Hunger Games.” Local... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
this year has been Same As Ever by Morgan Housel. So he wrote The Psychology of Money and it's his follow up book, packed full of wisdom. I also recommend fiction by Richard Osman, so he has a new book, We Solve Murders, and I think... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
the business but no day-to-day role). The case is fictional but is based on a combination of several real businesses encountered by Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017), managing director at Semper8 Capital, a Toronto-based investment firm.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
take-charge author, the publishing industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
something,” he explained. “I couldn’t do sculpture or drawing on the road, but I could write.” The idea for a novel came to him one day in a Beijing bookstore when he discovered a paucity of fiction titles about China written for an... View Details