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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
problem with this hugely successful model—one that, by some estimates, can be credited for more than one-third of marriages in the United States between 2005 and 2012: The experience of online dating is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
stories that highlight the impact of HBS alumni and faculty in organizations and communities around the world. The effort to engage alumni began in Boston on April 26, 2014 and will extend around the world over the next 18 months as Dean Nohria and select faculty... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
The pandemic has served as a wake-up call on many fronts, but to Anne Ackerley (MBA 1988), managing director and head of the Retirement Group at BlackRock, it has focused a particular spotlight on the retirement crisis in the United View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Since founding Year Up in 2000, Gerald Chertavian has steadily grown the endeavor from its initial class of 22 students. The nonprofit now operates in 12 cities across the United States, employs 400, and has an annual budget of $70... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
reassess how their strategy is working and to change initiatives if need be. It’s a high-impact lesson in driving corporate performance. Later that day, all nine sections played the latest version of the Beer Game. The simulation, first played on paper in the 1960s,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
trail running, hiking, surfing, skiing, or mountaineering,” she says. “My husband and I have climbed many of the world’s most beautiful mountains together, including the highest mountain or molehill in each of the 50 states and four of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
sales force and establishing training courses in the United States for surgeons interested in learning the new techniques of bone fixation. More recently, he led the firm's global expansion by acquiring the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
you asked at BCG? In the BCG experiment, our immediate goal was to make it possible for team members to have predictable time off each week. Typically, the target was one night with no work contact, but it could be any predictable unit of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
The oldest flour company in the United States — and perhaps the only one whose sales are rising amid a decline in home baking — is King Arthur Flour, a firm that's been in operation since George Washington... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
address this problem? They should close the difference between money laundering that arises domestically and that which arrives here from abroad. If it’s an offense in the United States, that same kind of money coming from abroad should... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Hospital. My uncle is president of the United States and my cousin will take over the same job in a decade. Big things are expected of me. But I’ve always had troubles succeeding along traditional Bush... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
and consequences. Boards and managers cannot simply be regulated into managing their companies in a responsible manner. Here’s an idea we might try. The United States has gotten a lot of mileage out of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
Mexican firms. But Gaia Design has not grown the way that Philippe Cahuzac (MBA 2014) and his two cofounders—former coworkers at an online furniture company in Brazil—had anticipated. Compared with the United View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
New York City. Armed with a “healthy respect for what I didn't know,” he excelled as an investor and was soon asked to help start a merchant bank in London. He returned to the United States in 1973 and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
failed in the face of an economic downturn in the United States and an onslaught of competitors. After a period of consolidation, the company is now looking for more opportunities abroad and has recently... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
display were successfully resolved, and the Sony eBook launched in the United States to extensive media coverage as the first mainstream offering in the e-reader market (the Kindle would not appear until... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
more money," says Norton, now an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at HBS. That search for answers led to their new book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, which offers peer-reviewed guidance for the purse strings—much... View Details