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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
"bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Related Links Sizing Up Social Impact A Healthy Profit Making Change Bringing It Back Home Opening the Door Change begins in the classroom, too,... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 20 Nov 2019
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Lifting Fallen Families
that unit. Gibbs and the family he left behind never strayed far from Kim’s mind as he returned home and pursued a career in private equity, first as principal at Butler Capital in New York and later as global co-head of investor... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
you know, at the most basic level, what we've built is an application process that works on a mobile phone and takes eight minutes to complete, and it helps people stay enrolled by sending them a text message as opposed to sending a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
the symptoms, no matter how overwhelming and urgent, Goodwin believes. You must address the underlying problems. Nowhere was this more evident to Goodwin than in Haiti, where he went after the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Revolution. Copyright © 2021 by Tsedal Neeley. Reprinted with permission from HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. PART TWO All by Myself What have you learned about yourself and your work in the new remote reality?... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
you realize just how degraded and damaged the rest of the world is. I just couldn’t bear to stand back and watch our natural world—and our children’s future—be destroyed.” Home is: Everywhere. “I grew up in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
Francisco Bay; dressed in Prada and Manolo’s; and had the token perfect child at home with a nanny. How times have changed in ten years. I now sheepishly drive a grimy, carbon-coughing Suburban and shop at Target. My primary professional... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
1968 or 1969, and Seattle was on an economic roll. People were apologetic when you called them up because they were late on their bill. And they'd get you the money. The following year was the big Boeing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
be someone you're not, you won't be a good leader. You also have to know the people you work with. An awareness of what's important to them -- a daughter graduating from high... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell You wrote recently that the story of British explorer Ernest Shackleton, who led an expedition to Antarctica in 1914, is highly relevant for leaders... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
protein biomarkers that have been identified as the precursor to Alzheimer’s disease. “There’s still no cure,” he observes, “but if you know that someone has the early signs of the disease and combine that with some of the new drugs the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a pitstop at fast food drive-through,... View Details
- 04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
another tech giant: Sandberg contends that she’s almost an accidental prophet of openness in the workplace. A decade ago, as an executive at Google Inc., she always worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Then her first child was born, and she found she couldn’t stand coming... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Papua New Guinea. “The focus of medical practice and the attitudes of practitioners in those places were so different than in the West,” notes Ehrenberg. “In Israel, doctors felt they could never go home because there were always more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students would regard simply as home away from home. By all accounts, they succeeded. Angela Crispi (MBA ’90), associate dean for administration, recalls life on campus pre-Spangler. “There was so much energy in the classroom, but once... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
teacher. And whose personal ambitions were dampened after getting married, as her new husband held the traditional view that she should remain at home and enjoy a life of leisure. But Deza’s go-getter personality would not allow that. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film... View Details