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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
a month. Hanna: Right. DiDonna: What I would encourage people to do is substitute out the work intensity and life intensity for intensity in something that you're passionate about and that's meaningful to you. Whether that's an immersive foreign View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
authors point to the special role reinsurers have played in the capitalist system. As the insurance industry developed, it had a vested interest in preventing excessive risks, while also providing complex societies with a mechanism to limit the damage that View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
also showed the right path to take. All this he did in a very natural and unassuming way, never making one feel that she had somehow missed the obvious but gently leading into a depth of understanding that no amount of lecturing could... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
the world. And the change is that the [00:04:00] consumption of content, whether you are growing up in India, whether you’re growing up in the United States, the millennials today are consuming the same content. So when my children come to the US, they actually find no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
written himself. He oversaw the conversion of an economy that had long been in depression to one of booming prosperity, and he knew that he himself had been the major contributor to the change. As the historian Richard Sylla has pointed... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
time over the years to mentoring students. In talking to Michael Noonan about the fate of Estes, he remembered a conversation he’d had with a Cornell student who had benefited from financial aid. BR: I was working with a young lady who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
the media vertical) more profitable. A May 2011 investment memo [cowritten with former colleagues Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) and David Cowan (MBA 1992)] had this to say: Peter and his team were “pioneering the use of machine learning and View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bridges: The Case for Executive Peer Networks by James Millar (MBA 1992) Skybridge Associates LLC While few of us enjoy “networking,” we all crave authentic conversations with peers, clients, and key stakeholders. The pace of change is... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic failure? This roundtable discussion, moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, sought answers and suggested some corrective measures. Highlights of the conversation follow. Krishna Palepu:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
and eventually the inevitable happens. I realize that if I don't fire Bob, I'm going to lose all my star performers because they're fed up with having to redo his work, having to cover for his mistakes. So I sit down to have a View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
prepared every day—and that we had better be prepared too. It was an inspired instance of leading by example and one that has long transcended my days at the School. Know Your Market Steve Frenkiel (MBA 2007) I WAS AN ENGINEER BY BACKGROUND, and thus View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
get into that behavior pattern and language pattern where-- I'm so knowledgeable, I'm working so hard, I'm trying so hard to reach out to others, and they still don't agree, therefore they must truly be bad people with dumb ideas. That... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
men applied to join the venture; another source put the number of candidates at five thousand. Bridges Adams, an acquaintance who directed an acting company, remembered a conversation in which Shackleton explained his views on hiring. The... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
crisis, but they don’t build homes, and a bankrupt government doesn’t build new infrastructure, he says. The outlook changed dramatically with the July elections. By speaking the language of business, showing up on day one with a plan,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
interview with NBC-10 Boston, noted the potential economic impacts of the invasion of Ukraine. "We will see it in fuels, natural gas, gasoline, also in food prices," Shih told the channel, noting that View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
with family can pose challenges, says Gordon. “When you’re working with your partner, any given conversation that we’re having about a work decision, Michael and I bring our entire selves to that conversation.” Gordon does this thought... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
risk-taking, project strategizing, resourcing, planning, interpersonal-conflict resolution, and crisis management. Our Common Ground: Insights from Four Years of Listening to American Voters By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) RealClear Publishing For four years, Diane Hessan... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
important places in America because they tend to be what Ray Oldenburg called third places. There's your home, there's your work, and then there's this third place where everyone drops their titles. Or in the case of New Orleans, black, white and Creole could all come... View Details