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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
atmosphere each year. Jonas Lee: When we wrote our mission statement, it's like it's pretty simple. Like, we're here to decarbonize the atmosphere and we don't need a lot of flowery language around that. It's a big deal. DM: That's Jonas Lee (MBA 1993), View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
Carson held several roles in product development before shifting in the late 1970s to focus on small-business banking at Manufacturers Hanover Trust. In 1983, she moved from New York to California, taking a job with First Interstate Bank and dabbling in View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
chief talent officer at Netflix. You won’t find empty values statements on the walls of a Netflix conference room, not on McCord’s watch. As she helped to build Netflix into a media giant, McCord articulated... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
After more than twenty years in journalism, covering everything from the coroner's office to the Oval Office, Karen E. Tumulty (MBA '81), Time magazine's national political correspondent, has seen it all. So how to explain the warm smile,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the Middle East today to capitalize on decades of missed economic and business opportunities. In how many other regions of the world can a company establish a manufacturing base only 150 km from its head office and significantly reduce... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
it’s also about overcoming biases and coming out a winner, even when the odds are against you. I am such a fan that I even attended the Jane Austen Festival, in Bath, in 2010. —Fariha Ansari Javed (PLDA 18, 2014) is the chief strategy... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
financially responsible for the error. And despite overwhelming local support for the $3 million project, city officials raised objections that Dlodlo believes would never have been lodged against a developer in a more affluent... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
should emulate that posture: “Let us provide you backbone financial and other needed resources, rather than tell you how to educate kids.” In the future—especially post-COVID-19—companies should place particular focus on creating... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a nameless, faceless shareholder,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
spartan, vinyl-floored office in a former communist-run railroad repair yard, and Jeanne Hilsinger insists that is precisely where she wants to be. Now CFO of Mavel a.s., a Czech manufacturer of turbines and turnkey hydroelectric power... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
administrator and financial manager for pediatric medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Then, in 1989, came an opportunity with UNICEF. “It was the perfect match with my interests and experience,” she says. “Doing... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
five-minute video on your smartphone while waiting in line at the post office or riding the bus to school? No friction at all. This new reality has not gone unnoticed at traditional networks like the Disney/ABC Television Group, where... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
hospital bed in jeans and Chuck Taylors, mussed brown hair, smiling just enough to reveal dimples, with his hand out in front of him, holding two small white pills. "First dose of HT-100. That's it," she says, pulling up the photo on the computer at her View Details