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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Humans, it seems, are wired for immediate gratification, while “a lot of the things that make us happiest require time and effort,” Norton says. Understanding this disconnect and interventions that could change it can make people—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
Delmotte, a senior scientist at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “very clearly set the stakes” of climate impacts, while Pierre Vandier, head of the French Navy, provided a “crisp and insightful view” on the new... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
life into three categories of days: rest days, buffer days, and focus days. And my week has changed dramatically, because I've now agreed that I'm going to have three rest days a week. So Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday—completely no... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
address, "We don't use the word 'revolution' lightly, loosely, or often at Harvard." Yet as he and almost every other conference speaker went on to affirm, the radical changes being effected by today's information technology amount to... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
management, change management, and ethics. An interview with Professor Boris Groysberg. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6827.html. Horrible Boss Workarounds Bad bosses are generally more inept than evil and often aren’t purposefully bad,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
economy business models,” noted Cyberposium cochair David Margalit (MBA 2001). “This year’s conference reflected that change in attitude.” Opening speaker Tim Koogle, then CEO of Yahoo!, shared the presentation spotlight with a dozen... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
with Harvard's interfaculty Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, resulted in his formulation of a model of human behavior that explains why even the most "rational" people behave irrationally at times, willfully continuing in self-destructive... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
Family Research Fund. They have also encouraged other members of their extended family to contribute to the fund. “We want to give faculty members the freedom to think big. We have an interest in the issues around management—human View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk, and the audience explored the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Nyquist reported that such emissions could be cut by a third through greater efficiencies. He also noted, however, that meeting the lowered emission goals set for 2050 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will require a larger... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
through charisma or force of character in the way that I thought leaders always did. Professor Joshua Margolis’s class helped me see beyond that. It’s possible to be an effective leader and an introvert. We’ve spent a lot of time changing... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 23 May 2018
- News
The Work-Life Balancing Act
spend more time with kids. There is no right answer to these questions, but there is a right answer for you and your family. And the answer starts with honesty and openness with yourself and each other. What do each of you really want? Ask the question frequently, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Understanding how people spend their time online is essential for any organization hoping to capture and keep consumer eyeballs—yet what we know about internet View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
Third, a subcommittee examined the structure and approach of the Club Officers’ Roundtable held at HBS each spring and recommended several changes, including a name change to Clubs Leadership Conference. The HBS Global Leadership Forum... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
individual who has "positively changed the lives of millions of children" and who is an inspiring example "of how leadership transcends business and politics." The club's Business Statesman Award was presented to Chuck Lee by Rajat K.... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
actions to shift team behavior. “While traditional companies struggle with siloed organizations and slow decision-making, the most disruptive companies are being built by founder teams that have teamship behaviors born into their everyday... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans... View Details