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Ankit Tandon

completed on the ride out because my school was destroyed. In the coming days adrift in a sea of upheaval, my family would relocate to Houston, Texas, as newly minted refugees. In those roughest hours, however, the simple kindness and... View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

threat of walking away becomes. In such instances, one way to make this threat more credible is to find someone else to take your place. You might delegate authority to finalize the deal to someone who has less riding on the outcome.... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Tim Kluska

Coming to HBS is like... Stepping onto a roller coaster with a blindfold—it's thrilling, unpredictable, and slightly daunting. Yet, you have faith you're on the right track, and as the ride progresses, you discover this experience will... View Details

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Mollie Breen

women's-only start-up competition that ran on TLC and Discovery Channel in spring 2017. "I always had business ideas," says Mollie. "I would write them down on the train ride home from work." When she came across Girl... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

There's an old fable in which a scorpion asks a frog for a piggyback ride across a river. The frog fears getting stung along the way, but the scorpion argues that stinging the frog would be fatally stupid; the frog would die and sink and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

the neglect of the others. When this happens, even the emphasized drive will in time become frustrated. To maintain a reasonable balance among the drives requires hands-on steering by the leadership of the organization. Like riding a... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

of contract. "And there are usually financial incentives attached: Career prospects and bonuses ride on this contract—incentives for hitting the targets amount to as much as 97 percent of a U.S. manager's annual salary. "There's... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: Gwill York’s (MBA 1984) parents were determined that their daughter would be practical and self-sufficient. As it turns out, they didn’t have to push too hard. At the age of nine, York started driving her family’s View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

upstarts like Uber and Zipcar are making it easier (and less expensive) to find alternatives to car ownership. Self-driving cars, which will one day become part of the rental/cab fleet, will be another impetus to put old Betsy up on the rack once and for all. Need a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

and revolutionized millions of Americans' lives. Riding the wave of the Model T's success, Ford Motor Company became the undisputed leader of this young market and by the early 1920s, it was producing 60 percent of all the motor vehicles... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

20 Apr 2023
News

On the Move: Anand Kini (MBA 1997)

initiatives. What’s your morning, pre-work routine? I have to start the day off with some kind of exercise—whether that’s going for a run or getting on the Peloton. It helps set my body and mind in the right place. I then use the train View Details

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Liz Plooster

bond. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A lawyer, largely because I wanted an excuse to wear fancy clothes. Little did I know we would end up working from home! What is your favorite childhood memory? Horseback trail View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

L.E. Simmons

the money that oil companies spend flows through these businesses." Riding out the sometimes stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the oil business, for fifteen years L.E. and Matt Simmons have been an influential force in the oil fields. A... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Ken Zeng

into an exhilarating dream, like riding a high-speed train, gazing out the window at a captivating new world unfolding before me, both intimidating and eye-opening. What is your most memorable classroom moment? During a recent Leadership... View Details

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

baseball players high on that list. Gazette: Sports gambling is now legal in most states. Massachusetts is expected to begin allowing it in early 2023. When people have money riding on games, they tend to pay closer attention to that... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

two years since, Ang and I have been on car rides around the world, from Marseille to Melbourne. And while they each have their place, nothing comes close to that magical night in Cupertino. Greg Hahn, Class of 2021 “Love is patient, Love... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

when. With facial recognition and infrared cameras, there can be time series data collected from your temperature and probably what was in the breaths you exhaled, captured over weeks and years, as you enter vestibules and ride... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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