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- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Tom Popik was just looking for a Christmas present, not a cause. Browsing through a bookstore looking for a gift for his oldest son almost a decade ago, he started thumbing through a copy of William Forstchen’s novel One Second After. The book tells the story of a man... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
therapeutic-feeding clinics or working with machete-amputee victims. But with our resources, we can respond with some level of support. That’s what makes this a great job — you feel like you can save a child’s life or provide an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
leadership roles in numerous local efforts, from revitalizing Main Street — hence the farmer’s market — to saving historic buildings, to revamping the finances of local companies and nonprofits. While her involvement has sometimes left... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
phone. AVA is an invitation-only shopping platform. The company addresses the gap between the growing market demand for fashion and the lack of availability of branded merchandise and e-commerce websites in the Philippines. CardSwap.ca is an exclusively Canadian... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
more muted fiscal response in 2008. I think one of the things that I came to appreciate about the COVID-19 crisis is that it was politically unifying. The virus was nobody’s fault, so getting the government to act and save businesses was,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
will perform in different environments. Essentially, we can boil the ocean in a way that would be much more difficult if we didn’t have this infrastructure, which saves a huge amount of time and resources. The quicker you can make a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
investing $4,000 in savings and a $12,000 loan to found Centennial One. A supplier gave her ninety days of credit on vacuum cleaners, buffers, and chemicals. With a secretary and twenty part-time employees, Lambert focused at first on... 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 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
grip on corporate America. Starting salaries averaged $22,500 in 1977. Neckties were wider, and the corporate uniform was dark business suits for men and conservative skirts and jackets for women. Saving time for family commitments was a... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
to 12 percent. That’s a significant savings when you are hiring 250 engineers per year.” A short stint as assistant to the area management team for Schlumberger’s land division in 1999 exposed her to upper management, a move that led... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
the smartphone, we decided to invest everything in the Treo. It wasn't a decision most people would have made. It saved our company." By then Palm had spun off from 3Com and gone public. Aware they needed a smartphone product, Palm... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
this conversation with the Bulletin, Hori talks about his plan to reinvigorate his hometown—and why it's important to save the cities that the global economy has left behind. Dan Morrell: What were the goals of the Downtown Mito Rebirth... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
regulate the industry, and the company became a pioneer in establishing a regulatory model and developing good manufacturing practices for stem cells and human tissue. ViaCord’s first transplant was in 1995, saving the life of a young... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Beerport) Scheid relates the story of his escape from Bridgeport, Ohio, a dirt-poor, coal-mining, steel-mill town that more than earned its nickname Beerport. Very few people ever left the town, for sons followed fathers into dead-end jobs. But Scheid had one View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
percent down payment. Not many of our grand- parents or great-grandparents could save that much. Under Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Federal Housing Administration institutionalized the long-term, fixed-rate mortgage, opening the door to home... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
the rarified New York Times from layoffs. Too often, restructuring begets thinner issues larded with generic newswire copy — hardly the recipe to bring back readership and ads. Fine, if all that won’t save us, then going wholeheartedly... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
desire to save and help their buddies. And oftentimes, that transcends national objectives. It transcends why we're there in the first place. The goods and bads, pros and cons of the war were irrelevant at that point. It was about 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 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
the compensation component. While the 3-30-300 rule of thumb is a generalization and a simplification, the order of magnitude is appropriate and useful. Some professions pay much more. When higher salaries are considered, the impact of productivity becomes greater and... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
cofounded by Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, and her husband, Dr. George Herzlinger, recently announced that it has donated 100 portable blood and fluid warmers and 20 rapid infusers to Ukraine "to help View Details