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

Mehendale. I'm class of 2003, Section C. Specifically, one person who had a great impact on me was one of my mentors, Clay Christensen. I was extremely fortunate at school to have his tutelage and extremely influenced by his theories... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

want to dictate it because, ultimately, these are their community resources. What have you learned about scaling or replicating this model in other communities? We’ve been learning in two directions. We’ve seen a wave of interest from individual publishers, View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier

military. The US Special Operations folks who are part of this story had a deep and abiding respect for these women. Does it have lessons for our society is the question, I think. Women not being apologetic about saying, “We don’t have to... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

sending notes to folks begging them to speak. 1999I. Bingo was still going on in our section. We still had some of the cards at the reunion last year, and of course you won when you said the phrase that pays, usually based on something... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

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