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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
Jeannie graduated) and a training program for humani tarian relief workers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where they serve as cochairs of the school’s capital campaign. To learn more about the fellowship challenge,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
when engaged in artistic soul-searching, they looked to their roots - Gibson's reputation for quality. Today, attention to quality is evident in the Nashville plant's assembly area, where workers equipped with precision chisels and gauges... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
yet motivated workers were stranded below the job ladder. In 2000, he founded Year Up, which offers low-income young adults a yearlong program of corporate training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Based in Boston, Year Up has now... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
operations for any of the multiple workers and vendors involved in getting goods from the loading dock to the warehouse. Over the course of the pandemic, RoadSync grew from 25 employees to 100 and now operates with a hybrid workplace... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Fortune magazine estimates that 75 percent of all strategies and projects fail; this book offers a proven system to ensure being among the 25 percent that succeed. It provides interactive analytical tools and a step-by-step process to help knowledge 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
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
has a triple bottom line philosophy, “people, planet, profits,” and is organized as a B Corporation, a new business structure that is legally required to consider social and environmental impacts. At the day-lit IceStone plant in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
the leaders of Wall Street firms to find out what their plans were for opening the markets again and getting workers into the area safely.” The Sunday night before the markets reopened, CNBC broadcast live from the floor of the NYSE. “We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
such as workers facing decreased wages or losing their jobs. RDT: The elite, in general, have overclaimed the advantages of economic globalization. For example, in trade, globalization is potentially helpful for everyone, but for that to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
employees at every level of the organization," says Makihara, who instituted an open-door policy to make good on what was then a revolutionary idea among Japanese executives. Emphasizing the importance of adopting new technologies, he named himself chief information... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
the workers’ allegiance. She does so in part by meeting one-on-one with every employee and introducing innovations such as pairing a shift worker with a manager in coleadership roles. “This is an unusual case because it’s about an MBA in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Oct 2000
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Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
former boss at Citicorp, her social worker mother, her physician grandfather, her husband -- she is also justifiably proud of her own accomplishments. After nine years in consumer banking at Citicorp, in 1985 Marshall was hired as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial airports and airlines unable... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Viking Adult) As a Big Brother, Chertavian saw how many young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers were stranded at the bottom of the job ladder. In 2000, he... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
industries, such as transportation, 3D printing, food, biotechnology, and more. The final four are: Apli: A Mexican talent agency that delivers qualified on-demand workers in 24 hours. Alumna: Vera Makarov, MBA 2010 Region: Latin America... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity
talent pool. Many Web 2.0 developments, including blogs and social networking, grew out of the large number of talented Web-literate workers who lost their jobs after the collapse of the Internet bubble. In addition, technologies and... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
workers who have lost income because of COVID-19, including gardeners, janitors, construction workers, and housekeepers. Funded by donations, the group recently served its 100,000th meal. "I have two emotions," Fortenbaugh told the New... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe
United States, for example, the American Psychological Association reports that one-third of workers experience chronic workplace stress. That stress costs American companies an estimated $300 billion a year in lost productivity,... View Details
Keywords: April White