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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
at all until they succeed in surpassing a certain income threshold. The Globe article offers the example of Jeo Tovar, a 35-year-old father of three who earned about $30,000 a year as a personal trainer before the pandemic. “There’s no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
send you flowers for. When I was hospitalized, my mother gave me a copy of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, a memoir of living with bipolar illness. Years later, that book was my inspiration for starting the Stability Network. I had one role model of a View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
deliver everyday tangible results. To that end, Meyer, deputy director general for The Private Office, has guided Mbeki's merger of the president and deputy president offices to form the Office of the Presidency. The new entity, which Meyer oversees, provides daily,... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
how a life can be changed if you’re committed to doing it and seeing the person behind the form that we all present. “I’d say the endgame for what I do as CEO of the organization is to show the world that people with developmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased the firm's base business. Last... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Graham retraced the unusual path that brought her to the top position at the Washington Post in 1963. It is a story that she chronicled in Personal History, her best-selling memoir that, one week after her HBS visit, was awarded the... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
off—reflect a very personal perspective on what that word "balance" means, with some rejecting the concept outright. Also included? Some very practical tips and insights for anyone juggling a full schedule of commitments at work, home,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
ELLIS: Joe Wilson was a servant leader who cared about people. PHOTO BY JEFF HACKETT Everyone always called him Joe. But as the leader of a corporate giant, Joe Wilson wasn’t exactly a regular Joe. As detailed in Joe Wilson and the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- News
Do the Things You Love
Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985, PhD BE 1988) is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. In this interview, she discusses the value of money versus personal satisfaction. “Money doesn't matter nearly as much as... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), author of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It. Deffarges, a health care entrepreneur and investor, talked about his book and the concept of complexity to a gathering of 60... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Fall Reunions
for the Class of 1958; a session titled “Investment Advice for Our Grandchildren,” given by members of the Class of 1963; and a presentation arranged by the Class of 1978 titled “Long-Term Career and Personal Success.” In his Friday... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
gifts to be savored. Other days, when she has read the same newspaper article aloud five times in an hour, it is heartbreaking. Trying to make reason out of the insanity of the disease is difficult. My advice is take good care of your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
founder and CEO of a Virginia technology company, snapped it up through his Stafford Foundation. “We’ve gotten away from the core values that made America great,” Stafford told the Washington Post (December 4, 2008). “We just need to get back to View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Ellerin (MBA 1995) and Robert DeNoble (MBA 1972), the club honored Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group and the Conference Keynote Speaker, with the 2025 Ellerin Achievement Award for his dedicated and innovative leadership in the health View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the areas of health View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Southern California (USC) changed Velasquez’s trajectory, making it possible for him to become the first person in his family to attend college. But that was just the initial step toward Velasquez’s ultimate goal: to become a doctor and... View Details
Keywords: April White