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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
communities: “In one instance, I met a couple who, for the first time, owned the title to their newly rebuilt home. As a result, they had enough collateral to start a small business. That is the real change that makes what I do so special.” Dinner-table finance: “We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
right away. He was with E Ink for 12 years, six as CEO, guiding it through multiple near failures to runaway success. The company sold in 2009 for $215 million. Wilcox then followed through on a fatherly promise to his wife—and former classmate—Gina (MBA 1995) and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
pay my second-year tuition if I accepted a job with them after graduation, I couldn’t turn them down. Much to my surprise, I liked consulting, and I didn’t leave BCG until 1984, after our second and third children were born, and the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
the world. And the change is that the [00:04:00] consumption of content, whether you are growing up in India, whether you’re growing up in the United States, the millennials today are consuming the same content. So when my children come... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
first executive at Reuters to work in this way—but after her mother’s illness, she was unable to combine both jobs. This break gave Gould the opportunity to reflect on where next to take her career. While her children were young, she... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
companies that do business in emerging economies. “After I finished my negotiating role in the Middle East, I thought I’d hang up my spurs and relax,” he relates. “But my children decided that maybe I know something after all, so we... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
among Val, Doris, and Marianna: one person handles e-mail for a week, another the telephone, and the third the other tasks. Recently the Records Office has begun a very valuable service: inputting from the Reunion Profile books compiled for MBA reunion classes such... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children Kristof grew up with in rural Yamhill, Oregon—an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
2013 with one product: a shelf-stable chocolate milkshake so tasty that children might not realize nutritious whole foods like vegetables had been snuck in there too. Within two years, Sneakz’s distribution had grown to more than 1,000... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
conviction that taking action is essential to who we are and for the future of our children is what will make change happen.” She added that the “window for action is short, just two years,” according to speakers. “I think everyone now... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
in the 1990s. It was, in the satisfied words of one attendee, "not your typical business conference." Buttner began the morning by urging women Ð who are more likely to raise children alone or survive their spouses than are men Ð to... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
They didn’t know anyone there and did little research before the move. But stories of the city’s recovery—and the HBO series Tremé, which captured its rollicking lifestyle—fired their imagination. With two small children in tow, the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
strengthening diversity at Salesianum, where tuition is close to $16,000 annually, were top priorities. “From its earliest days, the school’s leaders reached out to educate children of immigrants who couldn’t afford tuition,” he notes.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and to be generous with our time," she says. Scher's father ran an environmentally responsible chemical company. Her mother was a professor of economics, an environmental activist, and a ready volunteer for a plethora of causes. "She did things like taking inner-city... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
rational thinking. It enhanced my confidence, so that even as a physician, I would be able to compete in business and make lifelong learning a passionate experience." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Governor, The Peres Center for Peace Member, Advisory Group, The World Bank... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Houston Chronicle. Anticipating empty nest-hood as the youngest of their three children prepared for college, Skelly and his wife recently bought and converted a 1910 brick firehouse in Houston’s scruffy East End neighborhood, which they... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
authors are documenting a phenomenon in which the design of new products has created a corresponding number of new firms. Teacher, administrator, researcher, and mother of two - after 25 years, Baldwin is still very much in the eye of the storm. "My View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
them. In order to get those two jobs done in the context of an MBA, it's actually quite hard, because we're organized to give them knowledge and we don't equip them to do these other jobs well. And then when I come home, what job do my View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
drawings throughout, Sharma explains the math instinct that all humans have from birth, and better, more intuitive ways to solve math problems that are both rigorous and accessible. For anyone who has ever thought you’re “bad at math” but wants to get good—for your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
because I loved the job,” he remembers. “But I knew if I was ever going to be more than an employee, I had to do something else.” Answering the call of opportunity, Johnson moved his wife and four young children to Palo Alto to launch a... View Details