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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
respect that both of us had for each other. Then we went through our first year and went off and in our different directions. And then when we came back in our second year there was an opportunity to go on what at the time was called an immersion and today I think... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen is the first of four HBS “legends” to be profiled during the School’s Centennial year. Christensen and several colleagues conducted seminal research in corporate strategy and business planning that made the Business Policy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
larger chains seem to be adopting some of the distinctive, personal touches that characterize boutique hotels like Kimpton. Yes, what was once a fairly small niche has become a legitimate segment of the industry. The big chains are adding... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
platform—you can run it with two or three people—and it’s the only one of its kind that I’m aware of. The Big Give could be the vehicle for all kinds of global appeals. It’s very much underway, and we’re View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
to be in property, and I’m going to do well enough to give you guys a job.’ My parents had no clue about what I was doing, and I really didn’t, either. I just knew that the work involved financial services,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
Photography by Brandon Patoc You think the traffic is bad where you live? Be glad you don’t live in London, where the average driver wastes 101 hours a year—the most of any city in Europe—stuck in traffic, according to the Traffic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
anniversary of its original publication, the book is as timely as ever and troubling in the way it speaks to the present, and what might have been. In 1983, in its 3rd edition, Energy Future could well be... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
priority. Everything outside of that, I feel completely liberated to say no to. So that's number one. Number two, which goes along with that, is "No" is a complete sentence. Now that I've decided what I'm going to be committed to,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Hilton Wood and Vanessa Royle from the Southern California region. In addition to being HBS classmates, the winning teams all cut their teeth in either the Startup Operations course or the first-year immersion program, Startup... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
stories then answered specific questions from attendees. Thirkell says an average of 100 people have attended each event, which are open to the general public as well as all HBS alumni. The Project Impact organizers are finalizing details... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
enthusiastically showed him the parts and assemblies they are building for various aircraft and space vehicles, as well as industrial process controls. His interest and knowledge impressed everyone,” Sherrill adds. Shih says he jumped at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all, Catalyst, founded in 1962,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
I’m scared of being bored more than I’m scared of an adventure. I started Bridgewater in 1975 out of a two-bedroom apartment. I figured if it didn’t work out, I could always get a job. Then in 1981 and 1982, I crashed. I could not have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
actually after 8:30pm after my son goes to sleep. I have this golden three, four hours that is just so uninterrupted. I was not at the office, I was not distracted, I was at home and I could just be by myself and when it's quiet at night... View Details