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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
apprenticeship." On the client side, Karch appreciates McKinsey's focus on helping clients make constructive changes. "This place is driven by values," she notes. "Our decisions to work with clients are based on whether we can help them,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Borg in the United States in Malden, a suburb of Boston, last year. (Matt DuPlessie [MBA 2003] is a minority owner; his company, 5 Wits, constructed some of the quests.) Boda Borg Boston is designed first and foremost to be fun—with 17... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
percent of the discarded materials were recycled in some way. Three thousands bricks were reused in the renovation. Gallatin is the second residence hall and fifth building on the HBS campus to achieve LEED certification for construction... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
It's the night before the presidential inauguration and Washington's cavernous National Cathedral is packed to capacity. The crowd applauds enthusiastically as seven young men walk down an aisle and take their places on a center stage specially View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
presentation focused on current construction projects and plans for the future of the campus. By the end of the afternoon, we volunteers — nearly one hundred altogether, spanning classes from 1935 to 2000 — felt well informed. At dinner,... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Voting rights, things like that. And so if you break down some of these, at times, difficult to understand topics into their component parts and act on those, it can be a huge boon. I had a friend who runs a huge construction company in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Twenty-five students from Brighton High School toured the Chao Center construction site as part of the Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance’s City/Build project, which teaches students about design and engineering. On campus to kick off the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
affordable education for all. As he once said of North Carolina's citizens, "In a sense, we are a large family. We will try to direct the proper proportion of our strengths and assets to each member of the family." A Charlotte native, Spangler rose to prominence in his... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
mainstay of the American economy. So questions about the current Asian economic crisis elicit from him the wry, seen-it-all-before observation that "when you expand, it's always at the wrong time." After all, Hughes points out, with planning and View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
outlast disgruntled investors. Giving a favored role to long-term shareholders, such as more voting power than for short-termers, could be one way to combat this. Closer, more constructive relationships between shareholders, managers, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
little like the digital computers of the midcentury: enormous, primitive, and unreliable, says Jim Ricotta (MBA 1985), CEO of Aliro Quantum Technologies. We’re also constrained by the limited number of qubits (or quantum bits) that these machines run on. And because... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
projects in America, Mission Rock will be developed on land owned by the Port of San Francisco. Team officials plan to break ground in 2015. In addition to construction jobs, the project is expected to support more than 7,000 permanent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
new organization. Further, they have the power to shape that new organization’s career imprint. So executives need to be alert as to whether it is constructive to impose an old career imprint on a new organization. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
and enhancement of the student residential experience, and a successful $500 million capital campaign that included the opening of the Spangler and Rock Centers, the construction of Hawes Hall, and the renovation of Baker Library. Shortly... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
everything from handmade jewelry (think cufflinks made from old typewriter keys) to custom-made furniture (perhaps a coffee table constructed from recycled barn siding?). Incorporated in 1985, founded by parent volunteers (Gehrke took the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling approximately 1,500 data points per... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
mammoth charitable foundation created by the combined wealth of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. "We have evidence," Sorrell says, "that young consumers are more emotionally connected to brands or products that take a View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A Commitment to Education
The late C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler Jr. (MBA 1956, LLD 2013) combined the business acumen he developed as president of the C. D. Spangler Construction Company and Golden Eagle Industries, and as chairman of the Bank of North Carolina, with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction project is also under way to reroute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
largest Planet Fitness franchise in the country and had learned about commercial construction along the way. Price offered to put Kaphar in touch with a trusted contractor who would look at the building. That conversation turned into many... View Details