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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
not productive to sit in a room and try to figure out where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Instead, think about what you can do in the next year or two to broaden your learning, experiences, and choices. Career planning should be an View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
Batten Hall, on Western Avenue, is the totally renovated and redesigned building formerly occupied by the PBS television station WGBH. Batten Hall’s top two floors, reserved for HBS, are devoted to 10 curved, modular learning spaces (called “hives”) and other areas... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials to fund preventive measures against heart disease - such as View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
challenging? "By far the most enjoyable and rewarding part is building the BollyX community. I love working in the fitness industry—people in this industry are so positive, outgoing, and inspiring (it must be the exercising and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
madeleine’s iconic shell shape and, if they’re baked properly, the bosse that pops up to create an enticing little bump. Viana points out the bosse as he breaks off a small piece of golden-colored sponge. “I taste them like wine,” he explains as he nibbles, View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Matsubara clinic also has 18 beds for in-patient services, an option that Sato-san has exercised for one week each month since July, mainly to ease the burden of his care on his wife. Dr. Umeda and the nurse eventually set a date for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit
Financial Times (November 5, 2012), Keppel CEO Choo Chiau Beng (PMD 44, 1982) discussed how the global nature of the oil industry requires a nuanced knowledge of how to do business in a variety of different cultures. As an example, Choo cited a negotiating View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
telecommunications." McFarlan, in fact, was involved in overseeing one of the earliest regular uses of computers in the MBA Program when the "Business Game" became an annual exercise for generations of MBAs beginning in the mid-1960s.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that company could have learned that tactic from Stalin. That’s how Stalin maintained fear in the Soviet Union. He wouldn’t just shoot his opponents; he’d shoot people randomly. The whole point of employer responses to workers’ efforts to View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Soul Man
and evangelical exercises have attracted some 2 million young people, “more than Paul McCartney has pulled in,” Luce said. At one such recent gathering, Luce exhorted his audience to write down on pieces of paper all the negative societal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
How Many Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
In an exercise overseen by seventeen HBS faculty members, nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 looked at more than 800 occupations in the United States. They found that it’s not just low-skill jobs that can be readily performed for... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
million times––because that exercise of being a decision maker in a pretend environment 15 times a week keyed me up to do it in a real environment.’ (Published November 2017) View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
benefits from a few tweaks to the format. With an added emphasis on the foundational, teamwork-based skills used throughout FIELD, the first module also incorporates a full day of exercises focused on the art of negotiation. The second... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
plans are useful exercises for concentrating the thoughts of entrepreneurs, they don't turn the heads of Greylock partners, who place their bets on people. "The principal reason for accomplishment is dedicated and competent management,"... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
compelled to focus on protective legal processes and box-checking exercises rather than on formulating company strategy, identifying risks, and evaluating executive performance. The increasing time commitment required of board members,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Reunion Magic
events being planned for the 50th anniversary of women in the full-time MBA Program; took part in more than 50 faculty talks; and participated in a hands-on FIELD exercise in a Batten Hall “hive” classroom. View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
sales. (DeCoons left YogaWorks in 2014 to head The Bar Method, an exercise studio with over 100 US locations.) “When you’ve got something like yoga in a very competitive marketplace with many different price points, including zero, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
class, a masterful faculty member who can bring the most out of them, cases and exercises that ground discussion in real-world problems, and a campus designed to support a fully engaged residential learning community, together create an... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
always stuck with me. But the process is extremely cumbersome—the state budget-setting exercises get down into the weeds of our operation, but they only look at the cost side, not the revenue side. So it’s a challenge. We try to stay as... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
gifts to be savored. Other days, when she has read the same newspaper article aloud five times in an hour, it is heartbreaking. Trying to make reason out of the insanity of the disease is difficult. My advice is take good care of your personal health, get adequate... View Details