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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
all his fault. Well, after several complaints from the customers, other staff members, I began to share with my father that I thought this manager was not doing his job. And one Friday afternoon I walked into my father's View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical trials will receive FDA approval. Eric Kimble (MBA 1994), chief commercial View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Leading the way in sustainable style
offices worldwide—and throughout the garment industry. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang. Since 1995, she has held a leadership role in the Hong Kong–based company her father founded, which makes more men’s cotton shirts than... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
the flip side, sharing stories in a safe space can elicit empathy—and empathy for each other is what we need at this moment, above all else.” Their approach was the result of dozens of interviews with CEOs,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important information to View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
on to become a household name. Consider David Cowan’s (MBA 1992) initial response to eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass.” Chad Waite (MBA 1983) had this to say about a certain Seattle entrepreneur: “A guy walks into your View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
international clubs continue to face the challenges of producing viable levels of membership, activities, and finances. This committee hopes to recommend and implement several initiatives that will provide club officers with the systems... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971
were able to safely return to earth. The Apollo 13 experience taught Lovell the importance of team work, a lesson he now shares with audiences around the world in his career as a public speaker. He also draws on his 25 years in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
and formed her own real-estate company in the mid-1970s. "Real estate was booming in Washington at the time," she recalls, "and I started out renovating residential property. In 1979 I formed The Executive Office Group, a View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
much unstoppable when he sets his sights on something. In the past, that has included carving green space out of Atlanta’s urban wastelands; writing legislation to preserve Georgia’s Native American archaeological sites threatened by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
around the world, and perhaps most important, signed up for an undergraduate creative writing class across the river. It gave me the space for self-expression that I needed. More than any number of cases, those two years taught me how to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
presentations, office hours with mentors, networking sessions, company tours, and workshops. In return, NeuroLaunch receives stock in the companies it assists. The culmination is a “demo day,” when its portfolio companies join other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
New York Club Honors Two Executives
Statesman Award, Enrico discussed the "joy and thrill" of his job and said, "I'm convinced that it's the 'soft' side of business, the human side, that really does matter the most." After receiving the club's Leadership Award, Wagner View Details