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07 Jul 2021
Book

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

21 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

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

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

for all of the first year and the first semester of the second year before moving off campus to live with my partner in Back Bay (about a 10 minute drive from campus, a 50+ minute public transportation ride door to door). First, if you’re... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

ball bearings, auto fenders. It was part of the plan to help me become independent, practical, and self-supporting.” First jobs: “In fourth grade I earned a dollar an hour mowing the grass on our riding tractor, walked the money down to... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

the reduced carbon footprint. The Entrepreneurial Manager Ofo Key concepts: Infrastructure, Bicycles, Transportation, Ride Share Dai Wei and his co-founders grew Beijing-based ofo from a school-based startup to a bike-share behemoth in a... View Details

Profile

Brandon Graves

and cuisine was just a short train ride away. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? My understanding of leadership was one-dimensional before coming to HBS. I thought of leadership in the formal sense of someone with a... View Details

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

to change. It's so hard to monitor or fix compared to the machine. Layne: In layman's terms, how does your solution, BEAT, work? You mentioned surge pricing for car services as an example. Israeli: So, imagine we have three different variables to determine how much the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Nov 2014
HBS Seminar

CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

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

01 Jun 2024
News

Competing in the Age of AI

Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

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

01 Jan 2012
News

E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

most of his days with a 40-mile bike ride with a group of friends, and among the boards on which he sits are the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation. In addition, their son and daughter live nearby, making for regular family... View Details

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

Portrait Project

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

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

Profile

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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