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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
superficial. People are hungry for context and to understand the whys and the connections. I think we can play a huge role there. What’s the business plan for Khan Academy? Our number one objective is not to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
example of intended checks and balances gone awry, according to Mills. He describes corporate boards too closely aligned with CEOs to act as objective watchdogs, security analysts pressured to tout companies to gain or retain their View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
more value to Utah businesses and attract other CEOs to relocate to the state. Twelve of the last 14 people I hired were former CEOs. We turned key state programs—like incentives—into a P&L, meaning that if they added View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
the case. In the U.S. service sector, which makes up two-thirds of our economy, inflation is still running at 3 percent. So while some manufacturing businesses are experiencing price deflation for the first... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
take advantage of the digital threads woven into the fabric of our world. A digital mindset will future-proof you, your career, and your organization. Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know By J.S.... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set spinning a virtuous cycle of foreign and domestic investment,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
it actually—typically in our business the results are pretty directly correlated to the success on the court. And in our case they're inversely correlated. I mean View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
performer in the commercial market, has escaped overbuilding. “The money supply coming into our business is unprecedented, but I don’t see risks that you would associate with a bubble,” adds CBL’s Lebovitz.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
employer (1,100 workers) and biggest taxpayer ($500 million and counting). “If we treated the Afghans with respect, it would create a brand loyalty and empathy they’d never had a chance to experience before,” Khoja says of the company’s initial, basic strategy. “In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Care Act move us any closer to that approach? I agree that the individual mandate is essential. But with Obamacare, agents who don't know our individual needs are selecting plans on View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
as any print version. Jacobson’s eureka moment came to him in the summer of 1995, after completing his postgraduate work at Stanford. With a job offer from MIT in hand, he spent a good amount of time reading on the beach. One day, after... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
again and seeing rows of students in Groucho Marx masks. For a photo, see here. 1983G. Our beloved ME prof, Bruce Greenwald, came to class every day wearing: a blue-and-red rep tie, khaki pants, and a light blue oxford shirt. (He still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
was an absolutely key pillar in the Business School, both in the mission sense — of getting our thoughts out and having an impact in the world — and in a financial sense,” says the School’s current Dean, Jay... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
in job training programs associated with the government's 1996 welfare-to-work program and IBM's education initiative as examples of this model. "We still have work to do, but there's been some breaking down of the suspicions and negative... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on the HBR network called FOMO Sapiens and a book on the topic in the works. In this excerpt from... View Details