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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
it much easier to leave." Mothers of Invention With one child and a full-time job as managing director of Random House Children's Books in the U.K., Deborah J. Sandford (MBA '90) and her husband had an "action-packed schedule." When their... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
have another car blow up or another thing on the house that goes wrong. We’re not on the razor’s edge by any means, but...we go to reunions, and of course you know some classmates are pretty well off, and sometimes they’ll confide in me... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. (Netflix also recently debuted Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a Tina Fey–created comedy originally slated for NBC.) Even live sports, cable’s best hope for retaining subscribers, can be viewed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
critical moment,” says Chu. “We had to decide to either fish or cut bait.” After a weekend hashing out the details, they decided to fish. The IGNIA Fund launched in July 2007, and in August 2008 they made their first investment—a housing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
alongside my day job. But as we talked to people, it became clear that there was support, and in 2016, the government of the Indian state of Punjab offered a building to house the museum. We set the goal to open 14 galleries in August... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
provide space for staff and activities housed in Allston and Watertown, and to create more community convening spaces. To satisfy those goals, O’Brien notes, the master plan places significant emphasis on “the way the built environment... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
project that was quite difficult and challenging. My wife and I had been married for about a year at that time. She was a medical resident, and so her hours were really terrible. And at the time she was doing surgery rotation, which required her to be up and out of the... View Details
- 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
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
dating from 1840 to 1895, housed in Baker Library’s Historical Collections. Probably not the first thing you’d pick up for beach reading. Yet once the eyes adjust, a lost world opens up. Much like ours, it’s driven by human strivings... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
opportunity came knocking four years later when college fraternity brother William F. (“Rick”) Cronk (AMP 92, 1983), with whom he shared the daily commute, invited Rogers to join him as a partner in a restaurant venture. Rogers hesitated but eventually left McKinsey to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
developed the kind of confidence — and a sort of visceral sense for the right way to do things — that I do today.” Do Work with Impact It really doesn’t seem to be about the money. I heard about and met many successful entrepreneurs who lived for years in the same... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
community. “Every night, 365 nights a year, he’s out there,” says Neel Ghose (MBA 2019), cofounder of the Robin Hood Army. “For him, it’s his own baby. It’s a platform for goodness.” This platform for goodness—which operates like a franchise model, with an umbrella... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
makes magic for both sides,” he says, adding that the process of making the movie reflected the collaboration and team effort that Lego play encourages. For Lin, making that magic required a deep dive, from visiting the LEGO Idea House in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
product. You know that if you’re not happy, you can take your business somewhere else. You have status. You matter.” Asha Impact invests in a variety of businesses that have impact. Examples include Janaadhar, an affordable housing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
David's first challenges, outlined in detail in the Bulletin, was the overcrowded campus. With four Army and Navy training programs at Soldiers Field in addition to the MBA Program, more than thirteen hundred students were living in dormitories originally designed to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conference in December 2008, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told several hundred prominent board members that he couldn’t conceive of how they might do their jobs successfully:... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
expert on student housing. None of that would have happened if I had not been fired in 1976. Jim Arbury (MBA 1966) VP for Student Housing National Multifamily Housing Council Growing out of business After a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
When the fate of the Dean’s House — built in the late 1920s at the insistence of George F. Baker, who had given the funds to build the campus — came on the table, McArthur solemnly told his University superiors that the building was... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
other. That gives me hope. In the midst of crisis, sometimes we can give birth to better ways of doing things—figuring out how to control housing costs, provide better education and childcare, improve healthcare. We are working on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young