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Standards of Conduct - Recruiting

offers, and other violations of professional standards. Please refer to the Student Recruiting Standards of Conduct for more information. Students' Right to Privacy The Family Educational Rights View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

graduated from Harvard College. Her grandson Ordway P. Burden (AB 1966, MBA 1968, HLS 1971) represented the fourth generation of her family to be educated at Harvard and was attending HBS when the... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

October 2020
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Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris

In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London

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02 Sep 2015
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What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

the opportunity to earn high compensation--but jobs that often become too demanding for some employees, particularly those with health problems or family obligations. Former employees complained about bosses who lacked empathy for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion

21 Jun 2023
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Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club

like we had our own little family for the coming two years and forever. As graduates of the MS/MBA program, we were privileged to be part of this inspiring group of people. The program’s graduates are at the... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss

By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden

Buddy Valastro, celebrity baker and business owner, inherited his father’s bakery—Carlo’s Bake Shop of Hoboken, New Jersey—at the age of seventeen. He had willed the shop to survive and gone on to fame through his television show, “Cake Boss”—the name most people now... View Details

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Nayely Martinez

and families pushing through the barriers of financial and information poverty. As I move back to my hometown after years of pushing past those barriers, I am struck at how... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, by Richard Schwartz, after hearing from a gifted psychologist that Schwartz’s approach was one of the few she thought... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Plants (2) Failure (19) Fairness (9) Family Business (26) Family Ownership (6) Family and Family Relationships... View Details

30 Nov 2015
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Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

their ability to carry out core missions. “Most people donating money wouldn’t choose to contribute to the salary of the organization’s CEO” “As nonprofits try so hard to pare down their overhead expenses, they end up feeding the expectation that the overhead ratio can... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Jun 2011
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Recovering from the Need to Achieve

deepened during the early 1990s, after he moved his family to New York from Provo, Utah for a big job with Morgan Stanley. One day he found himself sitting on a bench, immobilized: he worried whether he could aptly advise the CEO, whether... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

AI-First Company? By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang , Sarah Mehta and Maxim Pike Harrell 2021 Book Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a... View Details

03 May 2023
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Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

joy and made me feel more confident that HBS would have a community for me. 2. Reach Out to New Friends Before START (Orientation) Week There’s nothing wrong with waiting until you arrive on campus before... View Details

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

the answers ranged from life-changing professors to lifelong friends and from startup cofounders to soulmates. In this episode of Skydeck, we share a selection of those responses. READ MORE Lou Hughes (MBA... View Details

22 Aug 2019
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Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

preserves, freeze fresh-caught fish, and boil down rhubarb. I’ll be spending the last week before my Elective Curriculum (EC) year at HBS visiting my parents and getting back to that lifestyle. We’re... View Details

12 Jun 2023
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What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

25 years later, I still count the connections I made through HBS PRIDE as my closest friends and confidantes. Kelly Bojic (MBA 2024) PRIDE at HBS is my second home. I’ve made lifelong View Details

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Donor Societies - Alumni

Giving Donor Societies Giving Donor Societies Leadership Giving Recognizing donor generosity and foresight Our donor societies celebrate the commitment of alumni and friends to... View Details

21 Mar 2024
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SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

of my new friends in the program, I wrote, practiced, and delivered my speech successfully. Through the speech preparation and delivery process, I learned about the importance... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

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