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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
Chien and Derrick Rossi, published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology that showed mRNA Therapeutics was capable of stimulating blood vessel growth, repairing damaged heart tissue, and helping a mouse through myocardial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The recovery that followed offered time for reflection. A few months later, on vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
assume trillions of dollars in liabilities spent to try to repair a broken system. The costs of regulatory failure and the urgency of regulatory reform could not be clearer.” Related Links Too Big To Fail View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
was an ad for Black Friday 2011 that featured an unusual entreaty: Don’t buy this jacket. The effort encouraged people to keep their gear in use for longer and repair it when required, supported by 35 Patagonia View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
nine associated firms specializing in the manufacture and repair of turbine engines for the aircraft and other industries. But in addition to his business career, Twaalfhoven has long carried the flag for the cause of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
time working on repairing California’s broken public education system. That’s where I’ve finally found my passion,” Welch says. “I’ve always been interested in education at some level—as a volunteer and then as a parent. It was when I put... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
typically pays from $50,000 to $120,000 for a house, often buying in bulk from owners tired of repairs and rent collection. Redbrick then hires local managers to take over those and other chores. After HBS, Lee worked at Bain and started... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
trillion dollars in spending could have begun significant repair of the Social Security system, or hired 15 million public school teachers, or built 8 million housing units, or underwritten 120 million children in Head Start, or offered... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Cambodian or otherwise, to teach the next generation the skills to revive the arts, to manage cultural organizations, or to lead the country. I made about 10 trips to Cambodia over 10 years. At the National Museum, I worked with a team to View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and hips and repaired with laser surgery. Laptop computers, the Internet, and cell phones make the 24-hour workday a virtual reality. As we journey even deeper into middle age, will we decide to restructure the priorities we've placed on... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 26 May 2016
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W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
obstacles, you’ll find obstacles.” One of McNerney’s first orders of business when he arrived at Boeing was to repair relationships with the company’s largest customer, the federal government, which were damaged by malfeasance that had... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
planning. "In that regard, the nonprofit and private-sector worlds are very similar," he says. "We talk about our work as a ministry, and it is—there are 5,000 people in Charlotte who live in homes that have been built or repaired by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
I’ve met literally thousands of Iraqis and I can tell you that every single one of them has had his or her family affected one way or the other by Saddam’s cruelty. Repairing the damage inflicted by Saddam – the material, human, and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
after the initial cleanup operations are finished. Once they’re on the ground, the mission includes repairing homes, rebuilding schools, health clinics, community centers, and whatever else is needed. It’s a job that taps into his entire... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery