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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
digital divide brought to light by the rapid transformation of the classroom experience from in-person to remote learning. ASHISH DHAWAN (MBA 1997) Founder and chairperson of Central Square Foundation, a nonprofit working to transform... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
technology so that we can reach out in a low-cost, scalable way,” Mahajan explains. Rocket targets the least educated and most impoverished families in India. Many parents earn between one and two dollars a day doing construction or... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
entrepreneurship just doesn’t square with reality. Our special focus coverage of entrepreneurship in this issue will help set the record straight — starting with the cover photo. The pictured trio aren’t the future of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
remember being with my classmates for that. It felt like a bit of a protective bubble, which I was grateful for.” Morning commute: “I lived in Davis Square, and every morning I would take the T to Harvard Square and walk across the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
block, is clad in marble, some 325,000 square feet of it. More than 40 types of the stone were imported from around the world for the facade and the building’s vaulted three-story lobby. The windows—1,800 of them—are rimmed in bronze. Its... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
had a long career in sports management, including an earlier stint running the business side of the Knicks, the WNBA's Liberty and the NHL's Rangers as the president of Madison Square Garden sports. But as inherent as competition is to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
Bingo, using cards with each square filled out with a sectionmate's name. When that person spoke in class, the square was checked off. Once someone got “bingo,” they had to be called on by the professor and,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
table having an interesting conversation with someone about the way the world works. There is a certain seamlessness between business and the everyday lives of ordinary people. I wanted to create that same kind of seamlessness in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
investigators, even the most successful ones in the world, spend at least 25 percent of their time trying to get money. If they can’t get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
lose their lives in their quest to reach the world’s pinnacle. Inside the compact submersible, Vescovo was as comfortable as anyone on a long-haul flight in coach. But he knew that just 90 millimeters of titanium protected him from 12,000 pounds per View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
one-year-old son’s giggles when you kiss his neck, and seeing a new bird in my backyard. I will focus on...writing the rough draft for the speech I have next week. We’re awake 1,000 minutes a day on average. Most of us work at least 500... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
mark and was good-naturedly sheepish about the comment, there would be an immediate cheer of “Loop,” with one of our tallest sectionmates making an L with one long arm pointing straight up, the other pointing at the student. It was done good-naturedly, and everyone... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
because you shouldn’t be doing something that you haven’t done a hundred times before, that you could probably do in your sleep. That’s what’s best for the patient. Then COVID happened. For the first time in decades, we were figuring things out from View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
—pages that span 140 years of history. And I do not say this lightly. I read at least 600 stories to cull them down to the 100-plus that made the cut. Did you consider other approaches before settling on the three-theme approach? I’ve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at View Details