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- 01 Dec 2012
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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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
A Conversation with Nancy Koehn Koehn Photo Courtesy Nancy Koehn Editor’s Note: The Story of American Business itself has a back story. Explains Jacqueline Murphy of Harvard Business Press: “About five years ago, after we held discussions... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
that emerged from the conversations with this sampling of women is the idea that also came up at the Charting Your Course seminar last spring: Approaching life in phases -or as "chapters," as Kate McCurdy (MBA '81) puts it -can help ease... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
remade his mother’s broken washing machine into a chair. He loved to work with wood, shaping a table out of raw planks. Transforming the things around him was an outlet, a way to make his vision a reality. Studying architecture was a 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
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
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- 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
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
of the research problem, at this point. I’m the subject and I’m the researcher. I’m like a perpetual-motion machine of happiness research.” In this conversation with the Bulletin, Professor Brooks talks about why happiness has become such... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 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
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If I Knew Then
three people to speak. You will be known, you will not be viewed as ‘What is she doing sitting there?’ and you will have helped chart the conversation from the beginning. And I think that is one of the things that HBS taught me in terms... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 17 Dec 2024
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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
- 15 Jun 2021
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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