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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
DZD. “The thing about founding a company in life sciences is that what you are trying to do has never been done before.” Aikili founder Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) agrees. “There’s a certain amount of passive skepticism required in this space,” she observes. “You need to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
differently.” One course that sparked Magwegwe’s imagination was Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), taught by Professor Richard Vietor, author of How Countries Compete. “It provided great insights for strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
considered the ownership of Africa.com to be a tremendous opportunity and responsibility,” she says. “I thought that, when I retired, which I imagined would be a long time from now, I would turn it into this great platform to tell the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
money for, staff, and launch the Mayor’s Office of Food Initiatives.” The office is a hub for the work that happens across city agencies and private partners related to farmers markets, healthy school food, local sourcing, food trucks, and urban agriculture. “It is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
innovation task of designing can be crowdsourced. Local Motors has a community of over 25,000 designers and engineers that is continually innovating for the firm. Who could have imagined that cars could be developed through an extensive... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
complementary channels has opened up possibilities that would not have been imaginable with the more traditional, siloed approach. JA: I would give the example of Glossier, which is a digitally native, direct-to-consumer cosmetics... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
collapse before intervening. The liquidationist views of that era have been thoroughly discredited, and we should not return to them now. The answer to our problems is not to imagine we can take apart every big bank, or pretend they’ll be... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
the last six years that already have proven fruitful. These innovative efforts are allowing us to seize opportunities we only had begun to imagine at the outset but now have become vital to the mission of the School. Support for these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
thinking. You see a pattern through a kaleidoscope, but it’s not fixed. Imagination and the ability to change the pattern have been main elements in the prosperity that Americans have enjoyed, and we need to value them highly. Science is... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
color, are an integral part of the experience. Visitors can come just to stroll or picnic on the grounds. Creating that same close-to-nature ambiance inside the building required imaginative technology and painstaking attention to detail... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
leak-detection system can pinpoint holes in the waterproof membrane within a foot, minimizing the need to disturb established plantings during repairs. While it’s hard to imagine today, the thumb-sized seedlings planted in September will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
to merge with information from other facilities. There’s a new disruptive technology in the works, personal electronic health records (PEHRs), an open-source tool that collects data from all providers and gives patients access over the Internet or by mobile phone. It’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
educational matter. The implications are vast — we can begin to imagine a world safe for difference when coexistence education enters the school curriculum." Slifka's investment career began as a summer associate at L.F. Rothschild & Co.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
anything, this has highlighted the need for information - the lingering notion that you could buy a stock, hold it, then retire without any monitoring or involvement on your part has completely vanished." It's difficult to imagine a more... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
was managed out after about 18 months. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Eleven years later, I am thriving in a completely different role in a completely different industry. I use my MBA, I have influence, I’m making a difference, and my life is what I... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
Because I can imagine that sometimes they get a little tense or difficult. Levy: Well, they can get really tense, and the strategy is-- first of all, when I negotiate, we're talking about contracts outside the United States. In the WNBA,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
hard to keep the bank competitive. Himself a father of three (whom he insists will not enter the family business), Banthoon imagines that if his father is watching over him, he is likely to feel proud. McIntosh One Heart at a Time Susan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
any card, to save his men. Right now, we don’t see anything like that kind of imagination and thoughtful improvisation, rapid-fire experimentation, and pivoting from many of our national and state leaders. This is a huge failure because... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details