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- 02 Oct 2019
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Gender-Reveal Backlash
- 17 Feb 2020
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Why Don’t Women Promote Themselves?
- 05 Aug 2022
- News
Balancing Act: How to Succeed in the Age of Hybrid Working
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
from his spirited partner Sam, Finn continues pursuing his dream of being recognized as an elite athlete through unrelenting challenges on and off the water. Smooth Scaling: 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization By Rob Bier...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Come Sail Away
When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however,...
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- 24 May 2017
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John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
pancake in half and explains that the two halves make a whole. That Sunday ritual encapsulates how people closest to Jack Brennan describe him: He is a genius with numbers, reads people well, works hard, believes in the transformative...
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Susan Young
- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
beers. Shufelt, a former hedge fund trader, had decided that all the boozy weeknight work dinners were incompatible with his life and fitness goals. He quit drinking and found sobriety to be a brilliant “life hack,” but he also missed the View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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Geisha Secrets
bran, and green tea. Tsai has incorporated these and other elements into Tatcha, a line of beauty products and treatments based on the centuries-old skin-care rituals of Japanese geishas that Tsai discovered in an obscure manuscript....
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- 01 Jun 2005
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The Nature of Change
Before this year’s class of MBAs departed Soldiers Field, they sat down one more time and prepared for a ritual now in its fourth year. For this “Cap-stone Class,” all graduating students read an annually updated case that compares data...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
Believin’”—shows that people who channel their nervous energy into excitement are more successful at tasks than those who remain anxious or try to calm themselves. Something as simple as saying “I’m so excited” before singing Journey can measurably improve performance....
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
everyone has experienced what you’re working on,” he says. “So many people have a passion for and a ritual around coffee.” Keller was already a “Peetnik” when he joined the company. Initially a Folgers guy, he was introduced to a...
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Julia Hanna
- 13 Apr 2021
- News
Face Value
simmering in the family kitchen. During her twenties, travel broadened Tsai’s perspective. On a trip to Japan, drawn to the country’s approach to well-being, she adopted geisha skincare rituals based on rice, green tea, and algae. In...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Scrum-Thing Special
A long-standing ritual was upheld on a crisp October afternoon when the HBS Rugby Football Club took to the pitch against the “Old Boys” alumni team. Jim Johnstone and Morris McInnes (both MBA ’65) first organized the sport on campus;...
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- 01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class
more interested in the classroom dynamics. Both classes had several visitors, who were introduced and applauded at the beginning. In the first-year class, visiting relatives of one student were given a standing O. This was the sole bit of section View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
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Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
were accompanied by arm gestures à la “YMCA” by the Village People. The high point, let’s say, of cheers may have come with the Class of 1999, where all sections had cheers and some had cheerleaders. Some of the 1999 cheers were little View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
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“A Unique Leadership Experience”
walk—“To see the sunrise I saw colors I had just never seen before”—and his nightly ritual of watching thunderstorms over Central Africa from the space station’s observation cupola. The lightening is so bright, Virts said, “you can watch...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
wake up, read the news, and then check my traffic and see what’s happening on the Time Inc. sites.” News sources: “I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Apple News all the time.” Print indulgence: Reading People magazine, a View Details
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April White
- 01 Oct 2001
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Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Taylor R. M. Keen
readjusting to the academic world, however, Keen became as much a teacher as a student. On two occasions he performed tribal rituals for his section, playing the sacred water drum and sharing songs and wisdom from his tradition. "You have...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
services different, but what’s unique to the rituals of other communities in the area. BR: I learned, for example, in the Hmong community, they believe you should not have more than one dead body in a building at a time. So if you had a...
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