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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
For them, it is a chance to escape poverty.” He cited a World Bank study in which 60,000 poor people in sixty countries were asked about poverty. “The $1 a day or $2 a day that they live on was almost the last thing mentioned. What... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books
reflect on your values and motivations, build an effective team, and stay grounded. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd How can your company stand out to consumers? Youngme Moon suggests that the key is to think differently and take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
and your organization. Escape the bubble. With more than 90 percent of our information-gathering happening online these days, we are subject to more and more confirmation bias in the information we consume. The result is de facto tunnel... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
that sets up the tantalising possibility that British sailors re-manned the vessel after she was abandoned at the top of Victoria Strait in a desperate attempt to escape south. Balsillie noted that this discovery—like the discovery of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Growing up in Bristol, England, I went to a very strict private boys’ school. But when I was 10 years old, my father took me on a trip to Los Angeles. Even though I was a child, I intuitively understood the appeal of Hollywood at the time,... View Details
- Profile
Limor Moshkovich
breath and dive in." Encouraged by the support she found around her, Limor helped organize an immersion to two countries she had never been to and of which she knew little: China and Vietnam. "I wanted to escape my comfort... View Details
- Web
Statement from Dean Srikant Datar on Anti-Semitism | About
occasions during my time here and at Tufts to condemn acts of hatred and bigotry in our nation. Each time, I have thought about my mother and father. They came to this country as refugees to escape religious persecution in Europe. They... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mike Lynch
unpredictable and priceless journey. Unfortunately, many others – comrades, classmates, and friends – did not escape the battlefield unscathed. Today, thousands of Combat Veterans return home with life-altering injuries, both visible and... View Details
- Blog
Tech Power at HBS: Faculty Boost Technology Ecosystem
range of companies inside and outside technology sectors, including many startups. She also serves on several boards, including Unilever and Warby Parker. To explore some of her work, check out: Book: Different: Escaping the Competitive... View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
book of five years ago, Blue Ocean Strategy, to check my recollection of what the authors had to say about the role of the customer in fashioning a strategy that would enable an enterprise to escape from red, blood-strewn, competitive... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
That’s what we did at our 20th HBS reunion a few years ago. We decided to put aside the suggested section case discussion to instead share the personal challenges that no one escapes life without. It was unbelievably powerful to hear... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are pulled not from economists but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Cristiana Torres
nonprofit consulting firm, FEP Junior Consulting, while she was still in school. "It was an escape from the very theoretical learning system that you have in Portugal," says Cristiana, "and a way to start having a true... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
In 1996, while standing beside her car after she and her family had pulled over on a quiet roadside in upstate New York, Langer sustained devastating leg injuries after she was struck by a vehicle whose driver had fallen asleep at the wheel. Miraculously, her husband... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
board, however, the outside directors should show their independence by filling the separate chair position with non-executive boardroom leadership of their own choosing. This is an effective solution to a pressing problem that continues to View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
The Bookshelf Travel maven Zhang Mei (MBA 1996), founder of WildChina, on her new travelogue (and recipe collection) and two other literary escapes for the armchair adventurer NEW Travels Through Dali with a Leg of Ham by Zhang Mei... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
A venture capitalist with a career spanning three decades and a net worth of $2.6 billion is certain to have had a few big fish escape his hook over the years. For Jim Breyer (MBA 1987) of Breyer Capital, the Moby Dick that haunts him... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
specialization. Consider one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. His experience defines what it means to transition from outsider to insider. He came to this country at age six because his parents were trying to escape the oppression... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
priorities of the School. In Profile, Extraordinary Alumnae Lillian Lincoln Lambert From Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969), a child of the segregated South who would become the first black woman to earn an MBA at HBS, to Mia Mends (MBA 2003), who emigrated from Ghana... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
to the people who came to the United States illegally and learn how they escaped unimaginable conditions and couldn’t wait to enter the country legally. To do this, we don’t need to be professional psychologists. We can try it with our... View Details