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David A. Frankel
bit by bit, with each new investment. “My yearning to be involved in entrepreneurial pursuits was being satisfied and I could sleep at night,” he said. “The founder is the hero; they really own the problems.” In 2009, when Frankel and...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a...
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs the first air...
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- 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
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
continuous game of test-and-learn to see what worked and what didn’t. Every time they made a new step (wagging a tail, playing with a toy, sleeping belly-up), there was that excitement of progress in a bond. Saying goodbye always sucked....
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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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- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
behavior and election outcomes. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55006 Harvard Business School 518-108 Casper Sleep Inc. (B): Growth Strategy No abstract available. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
that is created by knowing you arrive on Sunday, and your final presentation to your global partner is on Friday. It involves not sleeping much for the week, but the intensity of the experience is part of what makes it memorable,...
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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
sleep and waking up routines. However, there were several factors Nanda had to grapple with before she could commit to final manufacturing design and development. Did she conduct sufficient market research to verify the desire for the...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 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 2022
- News
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 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
the United States, remittances have become an expected supplement to many family incomes, even as the U.S. economy worsens and many immigrants return. Toting sleeping bags and a change of clothes, we set out on foot to explore the...
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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
PublicationsThe Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs Author:Cynthia A. Montgomery Publication:New York: HarperCollins, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
employment were dim after decades of making madeleines in one of Caen’s last factories, a building that had survived two world wars. The occupation was widely covered in the French media, with public sentiment favoring the no-nonsense workers hunkered down with their...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
through the tangle of laws and policies around banking and operating in such unprecedented circumstances. This is the part of the job that weighs most heavily on her heart, and McKenna acknowledges losing sleep worrying about the safety...
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- 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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