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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
well as leading thinkers and decision makers, to discuss ways to make the US savings system more secure and inclusive. Ackerley’s group, in partnership with insurers, also announced an innovative investment solution, called LifePath Paycheck, to help US View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
best innovations: Find and fill an important unmet customer need. Plan for profitability. Strive for sustainability. Establish credibility. Gather necessary resources. Lead and manage effectively. Maintain balance and learn to enjoy the ride. A Year Up: How a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) knows how hard life can be for migrant farm workers. He went from picking fruit with this family as a youth to creating a way for migrant farm workers to further their education. Curiel cofounded Rising Farmworker... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
1997, Petersmeyer helped found and, for several years, manage America’s Promise, the national youth-development organization. Currently, in addition to overseeing The Fitzie Foundation, whose education grants have helped scores of young... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
yet motivated workers were stranded below the job ladder. In 2000, he founded Year Up, which offers low-income young adults a yearlong program of corporate training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
their former employees so that both can benefit. The company uses a web-based application to connect employers and former workers in good standing, and allows employers to automate and manage their interactions with former employees.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
Indian nonprofit devoted to supporting the millions of low-income women who toil in the country’s informal economy. Serving young people and working mothers, brother and sister each came to believe that intervening at the preschool and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
For self-described compulsive worker Jane Veron (MBA 1991), the decision to step away from her marketing role at American Express some 18 years ago reflected the desire to put down roots with her husband and View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
to invest outside the core market, because there is less noise, great founders are sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to a broader population base.” Also: Denver-based Guild Education, a platform that gives... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Professor of Business Administration. Those numbers add up to intense competition for prestigious, well-paid jobs, and high pressure to perform—if a position is secured. “It’s a crisis of rising expectations,” says Kirby, noting that the unemployment rate for View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
“The feedback I got was I was too young and I was a woman,” she says. “They said, ‘Stay with us. You need maturity. In a year, you will be promoted.’” Instead, she left the firm and chose a more entrepreneurial experience in managing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
company’s legacy as Viana, who imagines his children’s children enjoying Jeannette madeleines. On break but still wearing her hairnet and white uniform, Régine Podgorny predicts the future: “We will be in our retirement, proud of what we’ve done, the View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one day's notice — a powerful tool... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
with Albert, a college student, as a ticket taker, I recalled how young people sometimes need a break. Albert, who was about to get married, was logging more than forty hours a week while earning a degree at night. While others might have... View Details