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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
secondary leukemia caused by myelodysplastic syndrome, a group of diseases in which the bone marrow makes few healthy blood cells. The doctors changed the woman’s therapy plan, and her health improved considerably. She was discharged from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
Recently, I successfully appealed and overturned a ruling handed down against me by the State of Massachusetts. After being found at fault for a minor, non-injury traffic accident, I challenged the decision, hoping to reverse it and prevent an increase in my View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
was such a nice person. People would come in and say, Mr. Estes, my mama just died and I don’t know what to do. We don’t have no insurance and we don’t have no graves or anything like that. In the area that we’re in, it’s poverty. And my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
taxes bring us? Improved schools, universal health care, energy and environmental solutions, better jobs and rising incomes, and the flexibility to deal with abrupt changes in the world. In short, the standard of living will once again... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
crumbling infrastructure, and high unemployment these days — is the $842 million National Gateway rail-transport improvement project. CSX is putting up half of the price tag, while six states and the District of Columbia are kicking in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Services Inc. — and play fast-pitch softball for the defending national champions, the Raybestos Cardinals. That team drew me to Connecticut as much as the fact that the state was a good place to start a View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
national security, and increased competition for land. The $1 trillion global financial loss is staggering. Despite these challenges, the authors call attention to the extraordinary social and environmental opportunities created by... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
do health care insurance or additive manufacturing. You know, how much more quickly they can move, how much more dedicated they are. I think those are things. And when I think back, like if I could have done... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
overseeing a historic gift of about $200 million in stock to the Iowa State University Foundation and the Boston Foundation. At the same time, Curriculum Associates has transitioned from a solely print-based company to a largely online one, earned local and View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Greatness by Mitt Romney (MBA ’74/JD ’75) (St. Martin’s Press) Romney asserts that America’s strength is essential for its own well-being and the world’s, but its national advantages have eroded. The United States is in debt, overtaxed,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Jaegle, an MBA candidate who co-leads HBS’s rowing team, met with a Harvard College strategist who surfs, a brilliant inventor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Harvard Medical School physician-in-training with United Nations... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
Sierra Leone, the West African nation of five million people, has been the scene of a brutal civil war for most of the 1990s. An accord signed last year has yielded an uneasy truce; with it has come an opportunity to restore some measure... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Advocating for all children with autism
dollars in autism research funding, providing fellowships for scientists who may then apply for grants from the National Institutes of Health. Singer says her HBS education is central to building her “pipeline of scientists.” “In autism... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Named Treasury Secretary in 2006, Paulson led the country through one of its most challenging periods of financial turbulence. A lifelong environmentalist, he and his wife, Wendy, work to protect natural resources around the world. Whom do you admire? Alexander... View Details