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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
Jesse Markham, an economist who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Markham, whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, was a well-known proponent of the “rule of...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
tracking global market trends and finding investment opportunities — such as gold, interest rates, currency, and commodities — that match those trends. Balance Is a Crock, Sleep Is for the Weak: An Indispensable Guide to Surviving Working...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
as crime will always be there. What you have to do is keep it down to as low a level as you can. How do you cope with your own fears? I don't lose any sleep these days. I have been dealing with ugly issues going on twenty years now. -...
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- 13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
sleep until I got them all a job.” Her extraordinary dedication to education began when Rewane was only six, when, enamored of her first-grade teacher, Mrs. Gbayisomore, she told her parents of her strong desire to follow the same path....
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
thrown across the cabin and broke one or two ribs. For twelve hours I couldn’t even reach the satellite phone to call the race doctor because it hurt so much. We do have painkillers, but I didn’t want to take any strong stuff. So sleep...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers like me the lightest weight...
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- 02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
make it scary. People do try to tear their own skin off. They do wacky things because they are sleep deprived. Just sleep deprivation alone can make you crazy, and so this meth-induced psychosis is a real...
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- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
morning. “I can sleep on the plane as easily as I can sleep in a bed,” he remarks. “The contrast between photography and the corporate world is really invigorating.” Asked for his top spots, Main Wilson...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
sleeping under his desk at the AKDN’s offices. (Thanks to a lack of rentable space, post-Taliban landlords could demand a full year of highly inflated rent up front.) At the time, much of AKDN’s work was focused on nonprofit agencies and...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
national parks. There’s nothing like it. We explore nature, sleep in cramped quarters, make a mess, and have an amazing time.” “The work we do at JPMorgan Chase helps people invest for important life events, such as retirement or a...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
The former managing editor of Fortune magazine,Walter Kiechel (MBA '76, JD '77) once said,"I hope that if you woke up a sleeping Fortune writer in the middle of the night and asked,'What is the mission of the magazine?' the answer would...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
list of chores and challenges. How does he handle the pressure? "I sleep like a baby," Frazier smiles. "I'll sleep for two hours, then wake up and start crying for two hours." Frazier's sense of humor,...
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Garry Emmons
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
at the hotel. It still smelled like burning and I got in and it was 3 in the morning and I walked outside of the hotel and I was walking around the neighborhood because I'm kind of a curious guy and I noticed all these kids sleeping on...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
meds: ScopeDex. Scopolamine prevents sickness and Dexedrine maintains alertness. “I’ve never thrown up in an airplane while flying. I need to knock on some wood right now.” Tips for sleeping in space: Close the window shade and put in...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
Most memorable sleeping arrangements: The roof of a chicken coop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. "After HBS, some friends and I bought around-the-world tickets from an air consolidator. You can get one very cheap by flying at off times of the...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
She decides to sleep on it. Come morning, Foalea is charged with leading a team of peers to turn one of these kernels of an idea into a business—in one day. This is Startup Lockdown, a small student-created, student-driven program that...
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- 01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes After graduating from HBS, Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) built a successful career in executive coaching and leadership development, working at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone. Over time, she...
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- 26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the engine and using a fan heater connected to the car battery....
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
It's past midnight and the Minister of Finance and Economy is home early from work, fumbling around in the kitchen of his spartan apartment, trying to find something to eat. He's two years into the job, but meals and sleep still occur...
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Garry Emmons