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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That’s now a couple of years in the rearview mirror, but you can’t deny that the recession had an impact on our trajectory.” Last... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
is one of energy and that however you slice it, we’re going to run out of energy. Today you could cover the entire Nevada desert with solar cells and you could take care of all the energy needs of the entire planet. But if you fast-forward a View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
right now, in the evening have free homework help. [music] JH: I asked Sal Khan what he’s learned since starting the Academy, and what’s changed. SK: I think the biggest change of the last couple of years it has changed people’s views... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers we added over the last couple of months, Eric Schmidt almost fell out of his chair, and he said, "What did you say? This is incredible. Do you need more marketing... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
a little bit more thoughtful. So when I began, it was just a single Excel page tracking how long I was running for, and how much I was sleeping, and a couple other things related to overall wellness. And it was really just a way to have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
blessed to have so much support from our students and our alumni to actually act on this opportunity. Public confidence in business has diminished significantly over the past couple of years. How can business earn it back? Trust in... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
career: Simon still writes music and plays jazz piano. “I’ve recorded nine CDs and at one point performed a couple dozen times a year around the country. I was able to put at least one of my kids through college with my income as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
communities: “In one instance, I met a couple who, for the first time, owned the title to their newly rebuilt home. As a result, they had enough collateral to start a small business. That is the real change that makes what I do so... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
group champion for this unusual competition. Although he shies away from social events, Hellman and his wife of 47 years, Chris, are involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. He is chairman of the board of The Magnes Museum, and she has chaired the San Francisco... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the lessons that you gleaned from those choices? Brady: So I bucket those two choices that both he and I had to make in a couple different ways. One is Stephen Reich taught me many, many different things. The first one is that a leader is... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
financial institution, but our clients were the heads of equity, the heads of sell-side research, sales and trading in investment banks. So, you have this career, which I really enjoyed. There were a couple of transitional points with the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
movement as there is, say, in the tech space. I might have worked at Google for two years and then Dropbox for two years and Facebook for a couple years, and you know, there's a lot of cross-pollination of what are the best practices in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
caring American woman, Edna was a research assistant at HBS when she first laid eyes on Doriot. For the next 48 years, Edna was his devoted wife and closest friend, and the couple enjoyed a lifelong storybook romance. Doriot would often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their previous state subsidies reduced and replaced by more modest payments from the insurance plans now covering their patients.” But overall, Slavin says that the Massachusetts model could work nationally, though he notes the state started out with a View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Museum's Web site are increasing dramatically — with well over two million expected this year. The Field has also branched out into distance learning with a program that reaches people who otherwise could not visit the museum. "We put a 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
could restore the data in a couple of hours. That solution didn’t satisfy the client, whose sales team would be idle until the system was fixed. That was the moment things shifted for Medina. Outreach had moved beyond the fledgling... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
kids, and now the grandkids and a few tag-along couples who just watch,” said Debbie Avery, wife of Tom Avery (MBA 1977). “Our kids play in the games and the grandchildren are in training.” The adventure found the group touring Tokyo, Mt.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
and another “yes” to a couple who wanted to bring a boy with special needs home from Asia. “These families are not wealthy – they have very little in cash savings – but they have enormous hearts and decided this kid is their kid,” says... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken