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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Jacobs (MBA 2007), working at the international organization reflected a choice: to do innovative work and “to feel good about waking up to go there every day,” as he puts it. The team of 260 in Portland supports more than 5,000 others... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
you outside your comfort zone, you may have to be the one who initiates those frequent check-ins. Schedule a conversation once a month to ask questions, let your boss know where you are, and get feedback. Cultivate a support system among... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
instinctively understood—and has taken great advantage of—the collective network potential in terms of shared experiences, peer counseling, coaching, relationship cultivation, and ongoing support systems.” Bonnie Hagemann Benko joined... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
from wind, and realistic predictions indicate the average will reach 20 percent by 2020. “The progress we’ve seen in Texas itself is a combination of good resources, good infrastructure, and friendly permitting policies,” he stresses. “And it’s View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
limitations when making career choices. "I have my own definition of success that is internally driven and has the support of my family," he says proudly. Like Barrett and Baldwin, Hightower's path to success has led him straight back to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street banker brothers to buy out Nessen's share. Over the next few... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
talk about how Liberty actually can support mitigation and adaptation and what that looks like in real terms. Tim Sweeney: We have risk engineers on staff. And so even when new construction projects are happening now, we lend our risk... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
students Allison Gaines, Michael Johnston, and Jon Schnur.) A national nonprofit that recruits and prepares promising candidates to become school principals, NLNS helps place its trainees in urban public schools and provides them with ongoing View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
money trying to save one of their kids on meth. I knew it was a bad epidemic, but I couldn’t believe it was going to be that bad in my little hometown, this agrarian utopia. Seeing it begin to dissolve in an ugly way was very troubling.” Medication-assisted treatment—a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
a little deeper. The students pointedly but diplomatically inquire how CB can create positive social change with a program that charges annualized lending rates as high as 78 percent and offers no support or business guidance to a largely... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
today we call “Search Funds.” Captained and inspired by visionary Leader Irv Grousbeck, they designed a track that allowed them to acquire a company, become its CEO, and, if well executed, also be its largest shareholder. Supported by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
we did,” says Stamps, who holds a BS and an MS in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech. Since passing the Summit torch to his partners in 2001, Stamps has focused his considerable energy on the family foundation that he and his wife, Penny, run. In addition to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
founded by Diego Saez-Gil, is leveraging data and AI to create a carbon-offset marketplace for companies through reforestation projects. Another I’d mention is Every Mother, which offers exercises, education, and support for postpartum... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
breakdown was hastened by Enron’s turbocharged incentives, which offered executives enormous bonuses tied to estimated future profits and a very generous stock-option plan that paid out richly as Enron’s stock became increasingly overvalued. Creating an environment... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
grown up as an expat, I had become a student of how we were viewed in the world,” says Cooper. “I was very proud of what my country had done in support of freedom and democracy, and I also felt I owed a debt of service. Annapolis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
(Maryland). REVENUE SHARING: 80 percent to school districts; 20 percent to EFP. FAST FACT: 85 percent of parents support sponsorships; 75 percent approve of naming rights. Illustration by Peter Hoey Bright Idea #4 Your Personal Learning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
System, a building set for preteen girls. Ello immediately won praise from toy industry insiders and has since become a hit for Mattel. Based upon the success of the Ello project, Mattel’s chairman and CEO, Robert Eckert, enthusiastically endorsed Ross’ proposal for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
the concession. Why does Manila Water support the development of local small enterprises? We believe that as the biggest water and wastewater service provider in the Philippines, we have a major role to play in our country’s economic... View Details