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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
by using VLJs. Their research showed that introducing the new jets would reduce the company’s travel budget by over 25 percent. The savings held firm even when employees at salary levels below $50,000 used the VLJs to travel. “As... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
to intransigence and denial. Once-incipient threats are now full-blown, and combined with newly emerging dangers, options and solutions have narrowed. For the contemporary reader, there is between the lines of Energy Future a haunting subtext: Is there still time to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Jr., and other leaders to become larger-than-life figures; why society works the way it does, and what you can do to positively impact it, and the importance and power of close relationships. Fin Tales: Saving Cadillac, America’s Luxury... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
1981. It was then, after losing some important data, that he wrote the program - later dubbed "UnErase" - to retrieve lost files. "I wrote a program that would, metaphorically speaking, let you rummage through the wastebasket and get back the stuff you'd thrown away,"... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the market was hot. I got $6 for every... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and new equipment—in short, way more money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
because of my crutches. I was saved a few times by friends, family, and sometimes by sheer luck. Some incidents may have scarred me for good. Now, after several years back in my home country, those adventures bring back some of the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Disaster Relief Fund. In an e-mail to classmates, they explained, "These men and women moved selflessly into the buildings, and there is no eloquence that properly captures the balance of the lives they saved and the sadness of their own... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on to note that Dost has View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
money trying to save one of their kids on meth. I knew it was a bad epidemic, but I couldn’t believe it was going to be that bad in my little hometown, this agrarian utopia. Seeing it begin to dissolve in an ugly way was very troubling.”... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
my parents have progressed to the nursing home of their retirement community, I cherish our memories of happy times together when they were more mobile. I realize that as a small business owner, working less may result in less business,... View Details