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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
for freedom?” Djelic asked himself. That autumn, he resigned from McKinsey and bid farewell to his wife, Marie-Laure, and two young daughters, who stayed behind in Paris. He returned to Belgrade for the first time in a decade, and plunged... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
his subsequent investigation of the conditions in East Harlem that led young people to be involved in drug-selling and criminal activity. Besides the trial itself, the book is the story of the failures in NYCHA housing projects, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
programs has grown by 25 percent to 330 participants. Looking back over the past decade, Childress detects a growing interest among young alums in starting or joining an organization dedicated to social change. “The attitude is that this... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
that technology has widened opportunities for America’s 1.3 million legally blind, working-age adults. Now blind workers produce a whole range of office supplies, manufacture aircraft parts, perform milling and grinding procedures, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
listen, realizing that the boy was releasing the small stones at consistent intervals. The young man had a terrific gift for precision and a keen focus, revealing capabilities that reached beyond his disabilities. The encounter... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
Nick Simmons (MBA/MPP 2019) was no stranger to the principal’s office as a student. “I was definitely an active, energetic young person who wasn’t always paying the closest attention,” says Simmons, currently senior advisor for school... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
(MBA 1990), Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), and John Rice (MBA 1992) Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: In 1998, Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976) cofounded StarVest Partners, one of the largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
What had happened to all those young MBA entrepreneurs, I wondered. We think we know how things turned out for most Internet entrepreneurs, but what was it like for people who went into entrepreneurial battle armed with a freshly earned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
collection of essays written by leaders of all ages (one as young as 15) and experiences. The book is intended, says Nick, “to provide candid insights, helpful tips, memorable quotes, and inspiring anecdotes about how to lead effectively... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) aims to put himself out of business. “That’s the real goal,” says the founder of Hope and Comfort, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that distributes basic hygiene products. Feingold estimates that, in Massachusetts alone, there are a million... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
on political campaigns that promise a different approach to foreign and domestic policy. As formative as those experiences were in establishing her sense of justice and political engagement, however, the linchpin is probably a very well-timed sandwich. On a cold... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
share our customers’ passions, we don’t need to waste time wondering what they would like,” Jeremy Andrus says. Skullcandy employs 350 people, mostly young and male (think jeans, plaid shirts, and scruffy beards). The company’s product... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
“Everyone was telling me that loss of life was an inevitable part of mining,” recalls Carroll. “I knew we could do better.” It took several days to get the 28,000 workers out of the mine and almost two months to implement new safety... View Details