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- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
team. She envisioned a long career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities, and Melcher made the decision to...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
foundering parent as CEO in the early 1990s. "Both Bain and the SLOC were dispirited organizations suffering from leadership crises," Romney observes. "Both had financial problems and needed new clients. And both were negatively affected...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
Photographed by Susan Young; edited by Dan Morrell See full profiles and more photographs here. Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) Chairman, Insper Institute of Education and Research My parents were both teachers. They always told us that...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
what Prashanth said: the ability to manage time, the ability to manage your workplace, to have a better connection with your family. The second thing, especially in a work-from-anywhere model, is that people now have the flexibility to View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver vegetable nutrition to their kids. Sneakz Organic...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum (MBA 2004) Grand Central Publishing In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision....
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- 11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
and days when you feel like you are invincible. On those rough days, try to take some time to decompress and to get some space from the business. I find that leaving and unplugging from technology for a few hours usually does the trick."...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
employees have spouses or partners who are also employed, compared with 66 percent in 1988. Nearly half of all workers have children under age eighteen who live with them at least half time. Seventy percent of all parents feel they do not...
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- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
stroke; a solo parent to two sons, 11 and 14 years old, she takes a very centered, practical approach to managing her time. Depelsha Thomas McGruder: I would say my top three tips for living a balanced life. Well, one thing I said very...
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- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation for a life of service. "My...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very easy to View Details
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
three of us that if we didn't get the job, we had to leave the company. Which was really shocking to me. You know, I, I kind of said, "Look, you're kidding, right?" DM: [laughs] JI: He said, "No, that's the way I want it." And I said,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
parents than men. Women are eager to find a way to integrate their personal and professional lives. Electing to leave the corporate world and pursue entrepreneurial careers can make it even harder for women...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
study about Specialisterne, an organization that was introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the labor force. “I started thinking, why not let HPE and our clients benefit from these talented people as well?” Fieldhouse says. “We were potentially View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for her View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
of Maryland.” In the beginning: “I found business just impossible. Had you known me five or seven years into my business experience, you would’ve said, ‘We had all hoped so much for him. But it’s a shame the way this is working out.’ ” A 16-hour flight: “You should not...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
(MBA 1972) has parlayed a lifelong interest in the field of organizational behavior into two careers. Encouraged by HBS professors Jay Lorsch and Paul Lawrence, Nadler pursued a PhD in the subject at the University of Michigan and taught at Columbia Business School for...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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A Janus-Faced Reflection
wake up to find oneself deeply enmeshed in a large company, a parent or a dog owner, or the proprietor of a stately home in a suspiciously green and leafy neighborhood. But we have followed our own paths to this latest milestone, and odds...
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