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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
wonderful 25-year career. The firm had been founded by three HBS graduates. At the time it had fewer than 20 people. When I joined I was the 25th. And the long story short is, I worked there for 25 years.... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
percentage of my sleep right off the top. — So I'm telling you, okay?" So go the first lines to author Allan Gurganus's short story, "Blessed Assurance." As one of the works of literature that HBS MBA students wrestle with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
to deploy a historic nationwide charging network that will make EV charging accessible for more Americans." But ChargerHelp!’s leaders have a longer time horizon in mind. “It’s one thing to have a workforce to install chargers - giving people a job for a View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
people will not shirk and will be responsible. Has coronavirus changed your remote work research at all? Choudhury: I've started multiple projects, especially trying to understand how companies and workers are scrambling to adjust to this new way of working in a very... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
Generation manages to do the appropriate level of due diligence in emerging markets that lack transparency. Another wondered how Generation’s practice of sometimes holding investments for only a short time meshed with its commitment to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
elements in evaluating a business proposal First, how much of a home run is it — how big is the problem it solves and how great is the solution? Life's too short to work on things that aren't home runs. Second, is there a realistic... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
in technology, serving in senior leadership roles in Latin America at SAP and Facebook. However, his entrepreneurial story started years earlier with his family business. “My dad had a small manufacturing company that made construction... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
offered this year. In addition, two new offerings are being introduced: an immersive field course that will take students to visit renewable energy and sustainable production sites in Denmark and the Netherlands, and a short intensive... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
principle and spirit of ethical reciprocity in the definition and pursuit of corporate purpose. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55998 Harvard Business School Case 919-413 Wattpad How to run a platform to match four million... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
safety. When traveling the country making site visits, often by bus or train to save money, Read enjoys hearing the stories of challenge and change — of “transformation,” as he calls it — from Outward Bound alumni. Tell us about your... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
economic future, and in essence moderate the risk of investing in capitalistic ventures. “Forecasters found a ready audience during a time of social and economic turbulence” In his book Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
time showed little interest in the computer industry. "Venture capitalism itself was a relatively new concept, especially in the nascent computer industry," Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar note in The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Alumni Books Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges by Joanna Barsh (MBA 1981) (McGraw-Hill Education) To answer the question, how do real people succeed in the real world of work? Barsch presents the View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
to think about why an MBA, and why now Molly: I was advised to think critically and objectively about the reason I was pursuing an MBA and how earning an MBA would support my short and long-term goals. The ability to communicate your... View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2021
the disruption in business worldwide, HBS’s Career & Professional Development team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and internship opportunities for students in a few short... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in interest rates cause bond prices to fall. This loss is largest... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
time showed little interest in the computer industry. "Venture capitalism itself was a relatively new concept, especially in the nascent computer industry," Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar note in The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of... View Details
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
broaden the scope of the channel in which I could drive economic development in the short term, possibly technology. In the long term, I want to make my way to Africa-wide positions before eventually narrowing down on public-sector... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
new Emerging Leaders edition of True North, which includes Foster's story as an example of the importance of crucible experiences in defining leaders. And in this episode of Skydeck Foster and George share the lessons of their own... View Details