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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Push the system to see where it breaks
teaching engineering in the inner city in Washington, DC. It’s literally one of the worst schools in the nation, in the middle of three housing projects, where the neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
notable recent addition is the House of Mandela portfolio of wines, produced by the family of Nelson Mandela. The Mandelas and Cuffes both... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
months I was teaching Algebra I at Spingarn Senior High, a school situated among several housing projects in Northeast Washington. My three classes are composed entirely of repeaters, students who have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Andrews, Raymond Remembered
of cases he wrote on the Swiss watch industry. A Ph.D. in English and the author of a critically acclaimed book on Mark Twain, Andrews also edited the Harvard Business Review for six years and was the master... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything!... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
says the program is in the process of expanding to a larger facility that can house as many as 20 students. After that, their next phase is to replicate the program in other cities––perhaps as many as three... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Winning Bid
Photo via Black Enterprise Photo via Black Enterprise As head of eBay’s multi-billion dollar Arts & Collectibles platform, Sam Bright (MBA 2009) oversees more than 50 million listings, ranging from rare comic books to sports memorabilia... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- News
Writing the Book on Balance
her signature in the 500 books we had printed.” As for managing the demands of a busy working parent (she oversees a large senior housing portfolio for a REIT), she observed, “Three years ago, I made a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
90 and 95 percent of all the residential mortgages this year have been insured by, guaranteed by, or securitized by the government.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas noting that the government has kept the residential View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
reverse of mine. She had her children early; in fact, her kids were out of the house by the time she was 40. And she had her career later. After thirty years in various... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
Sawyer is one of two bots that Rethink Robotics has developed for the small-business market. (courtesy of Rethink Robotics) You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2009
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Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970
President on the White House Domestic Council. During his tenure as secretary, Paulson led the country through one of its most challenging periods of financial turbulence. A... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
enabled everyone to say, 'Here's what we're doing to improve things.'" Rossotti dramatized the scope of the agency's IT problems by taking key congressional staffers on a bus trip-first to the virtually paperless office View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
about," he notes. A proud father of three, Cook now serves as Intuit's chairman of the executive committee of the board, having handed over the role View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman