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- 07 Nov 2017
- News
Best Business Books 2017: Narratives
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind...
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Robert Bochnak
- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
States from Seoul at age 12 and returns to his home country in his late 20s, MBA in hand, to help underwrite the sovereign bond offering that will save South Korea from financial ruin. It’s a novel of many elements, somehow managing to...
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- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
greatest wizard of all time. Although Barron's novels are generally found in the science fiction or young adult sections of bookstores, his intentions transcend such categories. "I'm writing for thoughtful...
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Thomas Frick
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
director at Netflix. Writing a novel while working full-time is no small task. How did you do it? When you’re the parent of young children, the hours that are your own become fewer and fewer. You learn to...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Year in Books 2016
From journalists writing bestsellers to professors penning fables to venture capitalists publishing first novels, HBS alumni have produced more than 80 books this year. Taken together, they show the community’s wide-ranging...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
Realizing that this window of opportunity might never occur again, she made a New Year’s resolution to hammer out 1,000 words a day until a novel emerged. Wang then accomplished the rare feat of landing a major book deal with her first...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
final revenues, with a formula to disburse the ultimate profits. In this way, the partners were able to focus first on the total value chain and, only after that, on the division of profits,” writes Gomes-Casseres. The final chapter is...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
fictional, the descriptive events bear such close resemblance to reality that the reader is left with an informed perspective on the people, the culture, and the day-to-day business realities within China.” When asked what motivated him to View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
transfer, but also all the novel recombinations that come from migrants working with locals.” Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) But Choudhury also observed the many obstacles that can...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
earlier Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.) At other times, a novel is just what I need. One that really stuck with me recently was Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. It wasn’t exactly a breezy read but,...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
HBR articles. Can you tell us about your career as a novelist? I hate to talk about it. Briefly, after I had my first son, I wrote a novel and sold the movie rights. I then got a contract to write two more...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham
Otis Graham, the author of thirteen works of nonfiction, Thomas-Graham set her sights on writing a mystery novel set at Harvard. In 1998, Simon & Schuster published A Darker Shade of Crimson, followed by...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Scientific Discovery
related to the market. He says that the case studies he and his fellow instructors have written will encourage discussions about topics such as the ways companies determine the pricing of a novel drug to make it both accessible to...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
Upon his return to HBS as a research associate in 1946, Christensen began working with Business Policy chair George Albert Smith to encourage students to examine companies’ policies and strategies in relation to the requirements of their competitive environment — a...
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