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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
electronic components assembly line and recast as an expensive, high-end beauty product. That Tweezerman success has allowed LaMagna to bankroll other passions. He’s run for office (unsuccessfully) and dabbled in politics over the years... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
realized, I was inspired to move beyond myself, and I realized that I had an opportunity: I lost my vision, but I could help other people find theirs. And I learned from Bill that I've been given this beautiful gift of blindness disguised... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
a lot of books and articles on gender studies. I decided that I would also talk to people, research some companies, look at the data, and let that inform my path. That's the beauty of being at HBS—finding questions that are researchable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
illness in the workplace? Switz: The beauty of The Stability Network is we have many, many voices and experiences speaking out, but if I just were to highlight a couple-- Elyn Saks is a professor at USC and has been very outspoken about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
my boat, and I am going to go down and give it a big kiss,’ ” he says, adding, “It’s beautiful down there. You’re weightless, like the astronauts, so you move around in an environment that’s very mystical and spooky. The only noise is the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
luxury cruise ship designed especially for the South Pacific. Bailey, whose wife, Mireille, is Polynesian, has lived in Tahiti since 1985. “The breathtaking natural beauty of these islands and the astonishing authenticity of the local... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
expected film to be in the cards. “Originally, I had planned on going to work for a solar startup, but I decided to pause the startup search after watching Chasing Ice, a visually compelling and beautiful documentary on the melting of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
New Zealand Adventure
in the HBS Alumni Travel Program’s New Zealand Fiordland Discovery. The twelve-day trip originated in Auckland in late December and concluded in Queenstown on January 8. Our journey through New Zealand’s diverse landscapes showcased the region’s remarkable View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Best of Costa Rica
Playa Tambor, an exquisite beach on the Pacific Coast. We hiked, snorkled, rode horses, and enjoyed the beauty of this diverse land. Our trip left us with many fond memories, the inspiration of a new land, and insight into a different way... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
attendees can relax, shop, or eat between sessions: “Sponsors don’t necessarily know how to design an experience for someone who’s having a very self-reflective moment,” Kwon says. “They depend on us to do that. They want to associate with the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
Jr. (MBA 1956) led Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), chairman of India's Tata Sons Ltd., out of Kresge Hall toward Storrow Drive, Light and Spangler gestured out to the space in front of them. This spot—with its beautiful views of Cambridge and... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process. The founder and CEO of Bossy... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
lot of fantastic complementarities between fieldwork and lab work. Zoë’s projects have all of this rich complexity from the field, where you can see beautiful things like long-term outcomes and high stakes. But I also think her job is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
inspire immediate excitement. Then Jacobson and his crew showed him another example, this time under a microscope, in which the pixels migrated over an electrode to spell out MIT. “You could see the individual particles moving around,” Wilcox recalls. “It was View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
was in debt. It’s an inspiration, too, because I admire anyone who finds it in themselves to give back to others. That’s the most beautiful gift in the world.” View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of Zayre discount stores, introduced... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
and the challenges that always come up and develop it. But if you had to paint a beautiful success story for where the community college, college completion programs could be with the workplace, what would be that world? Moret: I believe... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
environments and watching our classmates sip and twirl beautiful cocktails or elegant wines. And we were standing there with a can of La Croix or a Diet Coke and feeling a little bit childish and not part of the experience.” The two got... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley