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- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
to tell a couple of people what I was going through. But more than anything, it was just putting one foot in front of the other. It was extremely difficult, but I think I just thought, what other choice would I have? I certainly didn't... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
efficiency has led to mergers," says Dwight Crane. "What were nine banks in Boston, Hartford, and Providence, for instance, is now one megabank. Firms now need to capture a larger share of each customer's business," Crane observes, noting that the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
like Gone with the Wind, a theater owner simply had to screen the movie for people to line up around the block. Today, with movies showing at multiple times and locations, to say nothing of the dizzying array of entertainment options, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
of yoga is alive and well at our festivals.” Corporate sponsors also want in, to get their brands in front of the primarily female attendees with the disposable income for travel, food, and lodging, on top of $100 to $500 entrance fees.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
employees have spouses or partners who are also employed, compared with 66 percent in 1988. Nearly half of all workers have children under age eighteen who live with them at least half time. Seventy percent of all parents feel they do not... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
"We need to hold the standards higher. And for a school like ours, it's unacceptable." And I gave a speech in front of the entire school at an auditorium and people were cheering me on and it was great. And I won. And about maybe a week... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
concept.” With their faculty advisors acting as “healthy skeptics,” the team laid the groundwork for ZEFER, which has received more than $100 million in venture funding, earned over $100 million in 2000 revenues, and boasts over seven hundred View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of the First World War form the backdrop for Loyd's epic trilogy, The Great War Won. The trilogy ranges from the corridors of power in London to the front lines of the Allied forces in the field. In the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
service that automatically kept track of addresses, travel plans, and important dates. Launched by Adams and Brian Robertson (MBA ’04), the company had grown to 45 employees and had over 2 million users by the time it was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
two entrepreneurial visionaries and HBS roommates from the Class of 1951, Arthur Rock and Fayez Sarofim, to establish the Sarofim-Rock Professorship of Business Administration. Persuading Stevenson to return from his four-year stint at the View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
there. And meanwhile, on that street, South Bayshore Drive, were all these Lamborghinis and Masserattis and Porsches and Benzes and limos. And people called the pride of place to tip the valets to kind of box out the scene and make sure your car is View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the book with an anecdote about Bob, this well-liked employee of yours who produced subpar work. Can you recount that story and talk about how that experience was instructive for you? Kim Scott: This experience with Bob was probably the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
trade-offs are, because some of them, like time with your family, you can't get back. My name is Rosy Fynn and I am class of 2007. So best piece of business advice, I would say, put your employees first and make sure that they are... View Details