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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
lost and regained. But in person and in his writing, Jenrette is most animated when he is focused on the history of his houses and the lives of their previous owners. In conducting some of the research that helped him to reconstruct the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
pages.” Or we might come up with a topic and then seek out the person who is doing the best thinking on it. We don’t have rules about who can or should be published in HBR. Just whoever has the most relevant, deeply researched, or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
couple of students to help me sort out how new technology is affecting their lives at HBS. Immediately, they mention the Course Platform (see sidebar below). This wondrous-sounding intranet for the HBS community contains not only their course syllabi, daily assignment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
before, but its “product mix,” unlike IBM’s, changed in a single morning. Turning to teaching, is there a case of yours that’s a personal favorite? One of my favorites is the three-part Ryanair series. In Part A, it’s 1986, and Ryanair is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
insurance when they think they will need it. Should people who make bad personal health choices pay more for their health insurance? We are moving to a system where individuals will have to be engaged in their own health, or face the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Education For many investors, alpha—risk-adjusted returns above benchmarks—is akin to the Holy Grail, particularly challenging to achieve even with a sound strategy. The author reveals the principles and methods employed in her investment strategies, along with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
experience, which included having a Chinese roommate. I was one of the lucky students invited to move out of my eight person college dorm and live with one American girl. Our room had an in-suite bathroom and hot running water. Compared... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
and other forms of amusement and recreation, no matter how much leisure we may have. After men and women have spent respectively an estimated five and eight hours a week on the care of the body and personal appearance, after routine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
political analysts say it’s a tough race to call and that Taylor should climb above 40 percent of the vote. All those Edwards campaign signs in Crawford may be an early warning that folks here still have an independent streak and vote for the View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
borrower to come up with a personalized repayment schedule that matches their cash flows. Rigol: We’ve given out about 20 loans so far, and we’re planning to run a randomized evaluation to understand the impact of these kinds of loans on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
because disentangling the type of person who makes the choice from the impact of the choice itself adds another challenge. In my data, I saw that employees who smoked would sometimes be assigned to managers who also smoked, and this led... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
I've ever done." A series of afternoon panels were organized around "hot topics," such as cultivating a mentor and building a career, strategies for personal and professional success, women as negotiators, and the power of women in the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
you have an incredibly creative person with a great idea, and you can't find the money to fund it," notes Vicki Wilson (MBA 1985), CFO of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. Her colleague down Michigan Avenue, Field Museum of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
huge tech company. And the tech company had them as part of their bidding process, write an essay on their approach to ESG in their business. And thankfully this person was a leader in their field and could articulate their ESG message.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
wrong here? In Sony’s case, the malware was in the routers. I’ve never met a single person in the cyber world who thought the malware would ever be in the routers. But it was. That’s the first time. What if Sony kept that a secret? Then... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
must, if we want to be free. How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure & Resilience by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) Audible Studios Pasricha combines his personal story of failure and resilience with the latest scientific research on happiness,... View Details