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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
The oldest flour company in the United States — and perhaps the only one whose sales are rising amid a decline in home baking — is King Arthur Flour, a firm that's been in operation since George Washington was President, as Smithsonian... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) produces chocolates with a mission. As founder of sweetriot, Endline works directly with Latin American cacao farmers to ensure a fair price for their labor. Founded in 2005, sweetriot’s product mix features dark... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
particularly interested in branding, luxury marketing, symbolic consumption, consumer self-control, and fairness and ethics in marketing. A member of the faculty since 2007, she currently teaches the second-year MBA course Luxury... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
so, a fair amount of this is the aging infrastructure that we have, too, which creates even more risk. And so, as the US with the infrastructure bill that was passed, et cetera, has this more and more modernization and building of the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Piloting new career horizons for women in aviation
speak at schools and career fairs and try to help women get into aviation," she says. "I see a lot of myself in the girls I meet." Eaton also serves on the board of the Eastern Region Helicopter Council and several aviation organizations,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
alumni. He states that the “once-moderate centrist Republican Party has shifted to the right edge of the scale” and goes on to promote Democrats’ “market-oriented, solutions-driven politics.” Please note that the Republican... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
of what explains Endline’s role today as mastermind and chief rioter at sweetriot, a socially conscious chocolate company founded in 2005. Working directly with cacao farmers in Latin America to ensure a fair price for their labor,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
to spend time indoors. The other is prison.) ... Here’s a weird but helpful way to think about all of this indoor time, courtesy of Rich Corsi, dean of engineering and computer science at Portland State University, an outstanding building... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
when single mom Roxanne Quimby met Burt Shavitz, a bearded beekeeper living in a renovated turkey coop in rural Maine. The pair teamed up to sell beeswax candles at craft fairs before branching out into a few personal care products,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells “This book is a beautifully written call to action that instantaneously absorbed me into a world that I was not, but should have been, familiar with. It simultaneously made me feel powerless about the current View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
is not just the poor. In Massachusetts, state government discovered that a significant proportion of the uninsured had incomes of $90,000 a year or higher. Health insurance must become mandatory, to make sure that everyone pays their... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
brand. Well-known, right. How do you change people's vision of what that is? KL: So that is a really terrific question, because our brand is 51 years old and there are a fair number of people who may not have been to one in the past 20... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
States needs to remain an attractive destination for foreign investment. Right now the US corporate tax rate is among the highest in the world. Do we have to make the same mistake with respect to capital gains? Third, using the notion of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in multiple View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
scenario where one candidate wins the popular vote and is projected to take the electoral vote, but lawsuits in many states over mail-in ballots and congressional races mean the outcome is uncertain. Several problematic laws could then... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
Professor Rebecca Henderson, Photo credit: Susan Young Rebecca Henderson is worried about the current state of capitalism in America. The noted economist says that increasing global crises and challenges to democracy are posing some of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
as chair of the SEI Advisory Board until April of this year. This year’s Social Enterprise Conference, the tenth such student-run event, drew a stellar lineup of speakers and panelists, and the career fair filled the Williams Room in... View Details