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- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
bank, “on the ground floor,” first as a teller, then accounts clerk, safety deposits clerk, and bookkeeper. “All of these roles helped me understand the guts of the organization,” he says. “It was humbling, but I am forever grateful,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
there is little education by family members or in schools about personal finance. Most students have no sense of personal financial control, nor have they worked to have a financial safety net. Graduate students and budding entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
safety nets, it has marginalized pockets of poverty that will seriously threaten the future of the larger society if we don't unlock their potential for sustainable development. What gives you the most satisfaction in your job? In 1994,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Sport and still racking up miles. “You don’t need to be competitive to get the benefits of running.” Swimmer “Learn to breathe on both sides when swimming freestyle,” says Anne Johnson (MBA 1986), an open-water swimmer who goes by the moniker Atlantic Annie. “It’s a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
Certainly things having to do with safety and security. I like to use an example of, we met with a company that makes robots that look like snakes and these snakes have sensors all over them and they send these snakes to try to go into... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
FedEx, they all plan for “shipageddon,” as people call it. Then there’s stuff you can’t plan for, [such as] safety recalls. Tylenol was the famous case. All those pills had to come off the shelves around the country and get returned to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
bankruptcy laws) to creditors, and by spreading risk throughout the population (via deposit insurance and even the use of government-issued money). He discusses how the rise of big business provoked reforms that, by the early 20th century, transferred the risks of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
such thing. The only things akin to this in the United States are the legally enforceable limits set by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) for exposures to pollutants indoors. But before you start thinking that this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
to replicate office culture in the digital world, and the movement’s wider implications for how and where we organize ourselves. Prashanth, you said in a March announcement about Stack Overflow going all-remote that the most important factor was the health and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
better. Just the opposite. By late September, as the bad financial news all but drowned out the presidential campaign, what once appeared to be a Wall Street problem clearly had metastasized to a Main Street problem. Americans began to worry about the View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
paid for something that you love to do. Pierre Lorenceau (MBA 2001): Pierre Lorenceau. I think a lot of HBS current students might think they’re not ready for entrepreneurship and they are. Uh, They carry more know-how and more abilities than they might think, and they... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
class. The case was all about this Australian train safety video that went viral. I remember someone showing it to me at a party in San Francisco and loving it. Like, ‘share it with everyone I knew for a week’ loving it. When we dove into... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which provides safety and environmental services and products to the energy industry, knew the city from his undergraduate days at Rice University. He moved back in 2010, and when he did, his mentor, L. E. Simmons (MBA 1972), president of... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
longest longitudinal study on happiness ever done. And although our wealth has tripled, although our safety has increased, murder rates at an all-time low, people can go further and faster, more educated, happiness has been flat. It's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
relocations. The hospital also introduces a patient safety alert system as a direct result of seeing the andon cord in action during a Toyota factory visit in Japan. As a result of such changes, the hospital experiences a 44 percent gain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
survive under the Taliban. Only a teenager herself, Kamila is left in charge of her younger sisters and brother when her father and older brother are forced to leave the city for their own safety after Kabul falls to the Taliban. Suddenly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s takeoff were not a View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
events in person by following COVID safety protocols. Another 16 groups hosted virtual events, while three groups offered hybrid events of small gatherings with a virtual participation option. The HBS Club of India hosted in-person events... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley