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01 Feb 2001
News

The Doctor Is In

the hallways, patients and their families mingle with physicians in loose-fitting scrubs making their rounds, earnest administrators with armfuls of files, busy nurses, and other hospital personnel who team up to make MGH a world-famous... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable, safe housing is more than a matter of comfort and convenience; it positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

10 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

woman. Coming out at the age of 25 was, honestly, uneventful. Upon hearing about my new girlfriend, my parents simply said they loved me and that they noticed I’d been happier recently. They welcomed her into our home and family without... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

American Dream

inheritance to purchase the Wall Drug Store in 1931, it was just that: a drug store. At the height of the Great Depression, in a part of the country sometimes described as “the geographic center of nowhere,” the family struggled to make... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

01 Dec 2020
News

Up Your Time Affluence

Negotiation, Operations, and Markets Unit. She is the author of Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life. Next: Advance Racial Equity in the Office » Return to Nine Ways to Have a Better 2021 View Details

30 Jan 2017
News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

wondering whether their families will be able to join them for Commencement, faculty are debating whether they should travel to conduct their research and teaching, class visitors are cancelling their trips, alumni are uncertain whether... View Details

02 Jan 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

photo by Brandon Thibodeaux Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and then as director of... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

sponsored adventure athlete—she currently works with Adidas Terrex and PowerBar—Stroeer’s office is the outdoors, and her assignments, all documented on social media, take her from Aspen, where she ran a mountainous backcountry marathon,... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

citizens, businesses, and the government fight corruption and bribery in the Philippines. Motte-Munoz, who is half-Filipino and half-French, grew up in London, Paris, and Zurich, but spent up to four months each year with his family... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jan 2013
News

Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

and they had two sons. Plans to take the company public were thwarted by regulatory changes, so without the much-needed infusion of capital, James's ingenuity was tested. He was forced to close some offices and began focusing on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give... View Details

23 Sep 2020
News

HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

member of our community to thrive.” The plan was crafted by a 25-member task force made of HBS faculty, staff, students, and alumni, and co-chaired by Chief Information Officer Ron Chandler, Senior Associate Dean for Community and Culture... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

research and development centers fostered more patents than those who had not crossed borders. Since then, the geography of work and innovation has been the focus of his research. These days, Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate... View Details

Keywords: April White

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

welfare grant policy," Mallika says. "It gave me exposure to many different stakeholders." But the job also revealed weaknesses in the program's approach. "On the one hand, the monthly food rations were essential – most of our View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

Ensuring that quality, Teo says, means focusing not only on growing fast but also on growing well. For Funding Societies, that means a borrower must have at least $250,000 in revenue and meet with a loan officer before the Funding... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

25 Aug 2014
News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

of his departure to attend HBS, Weeks was called into the office of CEO Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962). As Weeks tells it, Houghton, whose storied family had run the company since 1851, asked him to return to... View Details