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History of Excellence - Doctoral

Investing Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter , Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz 01 JUN 2025 | Administrative Science Quarterly Placement With the... View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Perlow, Leslie, and Salvatore J Affinito. "Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life." MIT Sloan Management Review 66, no. 4 (Summer 2025): 44–49. Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of... View Details

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FAQs - Alumni

Mobility & Accessibility Assistance What mobility assistance and accessibility accommodations are available to reunion attendees? HBS strives to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals to engage fully. Golf cart View Details

18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

strikes that have affected the industry and effectively frozen most of its activity. Larger companies can’t ride out the storm without cuts to budget and staff. How do you use what you learned at HBS in this work? Each film and television... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

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Rafaella Mazza

is like Riding on a rollercoaster. To be honest, HBS often feels like too much, too fast. I was surprised by how much I was being pulled in different directions (social, career, academics, etc.). Sometimes I look at my Outlook agenda and... View Details

27 Jul 2020
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Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

whether to change career paths. At one point, he put his decision in a larger context: Life is surfing a wave. It carries you forward. You spend most of your time adjusting and trying to stay on the wave and riding it. It may not be the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2022
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Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

Also Like: Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right? Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm Related reading from the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

back roads of destinations such as Tasmania, Baja Mexico, or South Africa on adventure motorcycles. "The novelist Milan Kundera said that when you're riding a motorcycle, there's no past or future, there's only the present," Zobel... View Details

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

bus driver. She'd even stopped riding on his bus and got on by accident. She'd been to a number of civil rights training programs. After she was arrested, the people in the civil rights movement sat down and asked themselves, "Is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Kim-Parker (M... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane MBA 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational... Starting a For Profit Social Enterprise at HBS Philip Blackett MBA 2016 Figuring Out Her Mission Ming Min Hui... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Keywords: Large Language Model ; AI and Machine Learning ; Creativity ; Innovation Strategy Citation Read Now Purchase Related De Freitas, Julian, G. Nave, and Stefano Puntoni. "Ideation with Generative AI—In Consumer Research and Beyond." Journal of Consumer Research... View Details

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Claudia Hill

Coming to HBS is like... Being on a rollercoaster: the initial fear turns into thrill, its unpredictable at every turn, and you enjoy the ride as much as the feeling of elation when you get to the end. What is your most memorable... View Details

07 Jul 2023
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man offers food to the people in his community in need of a meal. He’s a community leader in the Robin Hood Army, a no-funds volunteer organization with a massive goal to end world hunger, community... View Details

07 Jul 2021
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Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

were accused of sexual harassment and other abusive treatment of employees. Plus the ride-sharing service was “flat-out wrong” to try and poach drivers from its competitor, Lyft, in 2014, Sucher says. The company has made some good-will gestures, such as giving people... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Student Research - Doctoral

Wu 01 JUN 2025 | Journal of Impact and ESG Investing Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter , Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz 01 JUN 2025 |... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

bankruptcy proceeding can have difficulty restructuring their public bonds. If such bonds are widely held, individual bondholders may be unwilling to make concessions, preferring to free ride off the concessions of others. Thus it will be... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

21 Sep 2022
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You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

us happy and creates positive impact, each on its own still helps toward making your life seem more meaningful." “If you’re selling an electric car, make it a pleasure to ride in,” De Freitas says. On a more personal level, De Freitas... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

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