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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company and leader in fragrance. He began his career at The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
access to a truly first-rate education. That sounds a lot better than starting a business that educates some subset of the developed world and then eventually selling it off to somebody. I already have a beautiful wife, a hilarious son,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
That leap was necessary because Camino’s members—whose businesses include restaurants, construction companies, beauty salons, and small manufacturers, among many others—don’t fit the traditional categories for risk assessment. Twenty-five... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
connects the Yukon River to the coast that takes you through this beautiful valley with some very, very beautiful shelter cabins as well. Cold, unheated, unmanned, but still very beautiful. I arrived at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Vessel, a service that offers subscribers early access to new content from YouTube and more mainstream celebrities for a monthly fee of $2.99. (Subscribers can view online original content such as Alec Baldwin’s Love Ride or the latest videos from “next generation”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
write for on The Good Wife: The title character, Alicia. “Because Julianna Margulies could read the back of a cereal box and make it compelling. The beauty of it is that you tend to write less dialogue instead of more, because Julianna... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
You'll discover the simple joy of early chai and omelette at Kyani and Co., of dawdling in Horniman Circle on a lazy morning, of eating your fill on Mohammed Ali Road, of strolling on the sands at Chowpatty at sunset, or taking the air at Nariman Point at night. This... 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
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
you have cash, customers, and a product. The beauty of this turnaround is we have all three. It’s more of an organizational and cultural turnaround. I want to get people inside, as well as people outside, thinking about Massport as a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
at Harvard Business School. MBA in hand, he arrived at P&G at the age of 30 as an assistant brand manager for Joy dishwashing detergent. A variety of other assignments followed, such as helping turn around P&G's beauty products business... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how... 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
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
no.” Fast money: “My husband, Barry, and I raised a million dollars in two weeks to start Bluemercury in 1999. The initial idea was to build an e-commerce company, but then we changed course and focused on freestanding beauty stores where... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
event can be found here.) "I knew a lot of people who died," Beyaz said. "My cousin and her husband, two beautiful people who left behind two wonderful kids; and also classmates, friends. My childhood home collapsed." Beyaz added that his... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really sick one day, but it was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
of that, in French! Flying fish are amazing to see, though I wore a helmet with a clear Lexan visor to protect myself: They glide at 25 knots, so you don’t want to get hit in the eye. In the Southern Ocean, the albatross are beautiful... View Details