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- Portrait Project
Vysh Ravikumaran
My dad had escaped a terrorist attack at the Colombo Airport that night. I couldn’t help but think how I would have felt if things turned out differently. I was an adamant nine-year-old who refused to say goodbye to him before his shift –... View Details
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Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School
curated research, precisely tailored to address today's challenges. Browse all collections Psychology and Behavior More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) It's not about the bigger home or the better vacation. Financial stability helps... 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
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
I made the decision to apply to Harvard Business School because I wanted to learn how to use business as a tool to create prosperity for the millions of people striving to eke out a living on my beloved continent of Africa. And so far, HBS has not disappointed. Sixteen... View Details
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Smriti Jayaraman
words in a dusty classroom in an underprivileged Mumbai neighborhood will never escape me. "I have a mobile so I can do it." That day, I recalled my foolhardy delight the moment a boxy green-screen Nokia 3310 was placed in MY... 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
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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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
travel activities booking site, “dedicated to making travel planning enjoyable.” Earlier this year, Peek raised an additional $10 million and announced an instant-booking partnership with Yelp. Getaway CEO Jon Staff (MBA 2016) Founded in 2015 Tiny vacation houses for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Ambidextrous Organization
radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past to renew itself for the future. Of utmost importance to the ambidextrous organization are ambidextrous managers — executives... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
used to measure everything from weather to traffic. (NASA) All of these futuristic space-mining plans, though, still struggle against the oldest barrier: getting into space. Most of the cost of carrying people, satellites, supplies, or debris cleanup devices into space... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
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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
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
and share them with the world to inform new ways of attacking these perennial problems.” Dichter’s paternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust by fleeing from Poland to Shanghai and then to the United States; his father was born in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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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
- 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 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
the technology brands such as Intel or Microsoft, which are likely to escape the new mood. The second group is the cultural icons such as Coca-Cola, Disney, Marlboro, and McDonald's. These brands depend on emotional attachment rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Sebastian Vargas
parents took my friends, cousins, and me to a rollercoaster park in Bogota called Mundo Aventura. The details of the day escape me, but my recollection is one of unbounded fun and happiness – everyone I loved was present that day. When I... 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)