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- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
Photo via Vanity Fair Photo via Vanity Fair Talent agent Michael Sheresky (MBA 1997) is half of a Hollywood power duo that helped the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures become a box office success. A recent... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 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
- 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
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
indefensible” and “tawdry.” Not so, contend the big-league investment firms. Their lobbying groups (https://www.investmentcouncil.org/) argue that it is fair to treat the capital gains investors earn the same as capital gains earned by... 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
- 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
- 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 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
idea (no business plan necessary) in thirty seconds, with the two best ideas getting a second, longer hearing of two minutes. The winning concept was an online site that encourages teachers to share lesson plans and best practices. The event also presented a career... View Details
- 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 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
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Meanwhile, prospective African-American students attended a case discussion led by Professor Linda A. Hill. The day concluded with a career fair featuring representatives from major corporations. Saturday morning began with a seminar led... 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
hundreds of billions annually into western coffers.” Recently, due to its opacity and ease of incorporation (of dummy as well as legitimate companies), Britain’s independent Tax Justice Network placed the state of Delaware at the top of... 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 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
course correction that took Jefferson to HBS, consulting, state and federal leadership positions, public speaking, and helping organizations around the world develop their leaders. It has been 20 years since Jefferson was leading a Green... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 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
- 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 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
- 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