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- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
great things.'" Even though she was too far along in her studies to do the joint JD/MBA program, Brochu decided to enroll at HBS anyway. One semester she took 10 classes, which, even by HBS standards, shows a lot of drive. "I've no idea how I did it. I didn't View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
between the bloom of an idea and its light-of-day launch. There’s a lot of work to be done, Whitman acknowledges, but she remains focused, unworried. She sleeps just fine at night. “Fundamentally the direction is clear,” she says, “but...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or View Details
- 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 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
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
enclosure and conjured up a storm of powdery snow inside. Huddled in his sleeping bag wearing all his clothing, Moore fretted quietly about the terrain they would encounter above. The expedition had been plagued throughout by delays and...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
"principles for getting a lot done." Now in his new book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours (Harvard Business Review Press), he shares more performance-enhancing tips on everything from how to sleep better on...
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Time management
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
actually after 8:30pm after my son goes to sleep. I have this golden three, four hours that is just so uninterrupted. I was not at the office, I was not distracted, I was at home and I could just be by myself and when it's quiet at night even though people are View Details
- 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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- 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 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
the Battle of the Bulge. Green knew little about these events. He was focused on finding his team a warm place to sleep and enough to eat. Some nights they took refuge in a sheepherder’s shed or in makeshift barracks of the partisans, but...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
engage (or not engage) in our workplaces, homes, and communities. A Boyhood in Wartime Britain by Michael H. Coles (MBA 1961) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Collecting shrapnel from his front yard; identifying incoming bombers by their silhouettes; View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
the most out of their time. We can pack things into our calendars. Here’s a trick for any working parent who wants to take control back and get that little bit of relief, to get that time back so they can go for a walk or to the gym or to View Details
- 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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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
of patients sent home by hospitals with no access to care or food. With the mission statement “no one sleeps hungry in our community,” Jadhav recruited 50 volunteers, including medical doctors and business executives, and signed up 80...
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- 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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- 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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- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
can put that one aside and not worry about that for a hundred years, at least. That is not happening, so you can sleep soundly at night. If you're worried about that there will be more and more powerful tools to do more and more good and...
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