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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but remains active with a community... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
CLARK: John has been very supportive of what we've been doing over the past sixteen months, and he's been actively involved in a couple of our ongoing initiatives. We still meet pretty regularly to compare notes on key topics. There... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
market share or whatnot and so the opportunity narrows. That was not the case with Cloudflare. A couple of years in we realized our opportunity had expanded and that we were thinking too narrowly. And that actually we should really think... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
sitting in or that you own or manage, and we bet with just a little effort you could find out precisely how much energy it uses in a typical year. That’s because it essentially only takes one or a handful of cheap sensors and a couple of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
I’ve struggled over the past year with taking care of myself personally. I’ve had to unapologetically prioritize working out, eating healthy just so I can have the fuel and the stamina to get through these long days. I lost my father a View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
stands out as the rare commodity that remains as lucrative in the good times as the bad, since we don’t switch off the radio—or stop watching the films or TV shows that license music and generate revenues—when the economy sours. The last View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Howard met Barbara Noble, a nursing student. “I looked at her and thought, ‘I’m going to marry that woman,’” and two years later, he did. The pair launched a nonprofit to help South African students, and, after Howard worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb, the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
Toby Klein, postmarked Tubuai, French West Polynesia. Toby wrote, "Several years ago I told the world to go to hell and moved to Tubuai, French West Polynesia, where I fish in the sea, eat fruit that grows all around me, and live in the proverbial grass hut. Every... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
what most people think, I don't think that virtual meetings are as effective. There are a couple reasons. People are simply more distracted and multitasking behind the screen. You know, they're secretly texting on the side of the computer... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Disney+, HBO Max, Sky, BBC. There was a couple of things that both Holly and I felt very strongly about when we took the project out. One is that we wanted it to stay clean, okay? There's a type of teen show that's out there which... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
to get real calm in situations like this and what my mind does, what I've trained myself to do, is first of all not panic and focus strictly upon what are the options, which I think in life is an important lesson too. I'm going to make a very long story short. A View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
is helping grow the pie for everyone. “How do I scale myself?” she asks. The Answers: I think Lily should prioritize three to five markets rather than being overwhelmed about a national expansion, and a couple of tactical next-steps come... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
to hustle on the street for a couple of dollars a day. “The minimum income here is about $45 a month. When they graduate, and find work, they are making $90,” Rewane says, adding that WAVE Academy is poised to pilot a new soft-skills... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Baxter people worked first as assistants to senior managers and then were put into project-based assignments where they learned about different parts of the company. Within a couple of years, they were given responsibility for running... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
pretty incredible ride. We're kind of littered with best place to work awards which we certainly celebrate and appreciate. But we're as equally celebrating a young 32-year-old that goes and gets a big job outside of our company or one of our young women here has a baby... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
the traditional ecosystem.” Consider YouTube sensations Bethany Mota, GloZell Green, and Hank Green, all of whom started out making low-tech videos in their bedrooms. President Barack Obama sat down for interviews with each of them, streamed live to YouTube, a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what you have done?" Williams asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," he said. In its first few years, the fund concentrated on raising money to support research, even hiring a research director to keep tabs on their investments. At night, the View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
they had done for me," he says. "I taught a math or physics course a couple evenings a week. But I also used my teaching as a recruiting vehicle for NASA, to inspire bright students out of high school to go into our apprenticeship... View Details