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- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
fact that my parents had a home that was right on the glide path going into LaGuardia Airport. We used to look up and see the airplanes going by, and I think they had an impact on me as a kid. My parents also, when I was 15, decided to go... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
considered selling your company?’ He replied, ‘Well, no, not until just now.’ Within days, I had an option to buy it.” Upon hearing this oft-told story, many people evidently have marveled aloud at how “lucky” Rogers was to be at the View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
can build a multibillion-dollar business capable of identifying the next big food trend and propagating it across a vast network of cloud kitchens. “We only have 80 kitchens right now,” Azuero says. “We believe we can easily fit 1,000... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of candidates with the View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
$10,000 per year, a response so enthusiastic Evans nearly had to tamp down fundraising to get infrastructure in place. "There is an appetite for innovation and creativity right now," she says, "and people want to explore the current human... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
showed the right level of conviction." A summer internship at Goldman Sachs resulted in a job offer. But when Petzel learned of an opening in another division that appealed to him more, he turned down the first offer and had to reapply.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
needs of aging baby boomers and the time being right for consumer-driven health care? Yes. These are people who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s and were very successful in bringing about social change in this country. They know how... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
2009, we were both in section D. Go D! The dinosaurs. As anyone who’s been to HBS knows, you get to know the people who are in your section extremely well. Michelle really stood out as someone who was really trying not just to score points by asking questions in class... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
you have to balance the two, you're doing the right thing. Now, if you're in politics and you're making a decision, it obviously has to do with Apollo. But if you are with your family and your kids and your friends and you go out at night... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
the most rational question in the world to ask is, is business playing a positive role here? If not, why not? And how can it? April White: Lisa, you've raised a lot of really important issues that business can be engaged in, but we're talking View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
directions and lose its focus. Of course, throughout my entire three years in OPM, I was always referred to as the guy in heat. Arch was right on: it wasn’t long before my lack of focus caused my business to stutter, but I was able to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
des Autodidactes (VDA)—the self-made entrepreneurs award—held in Paris on May 14. “This event celebrates self-made entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized companies who started working right after high school,” explains Alexandra Mannai... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
A. Sahlman, she found her voice. “Though I often knew the right answer, I never raised my hand in class. Bill came to me and asked me to present a case, which I did. Then he said, ‘I want to hear more of you’ and from that day on, I had... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
look like when she was an investment banker. Originally from Los Angeles, Clarke is a “triple-winner” at Harvard, having earned her undergraduate, law, and business degrees from the University. While interest in such areas as constitutional law, public protection, and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
in your book or that you've been thinking about since, what do you struggle with most? Pasricha: I mean, I have a huge thing about time management and decision making. Right now, the average person around the world makes 295 decisions a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
civil rights movement leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy was Diamond’s godfather. Diamond credits his mother—who worked in sales with Mary Kay cosmetics—with instilling in him a “high level of enthusiasm about business in general, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
fellow staffer is found dead, Cameron, trying to do the right thing, is sucked into DC’s dark side. “Like the protagonist in the book, I grew up in a small town in central California—Modesto, in my case,” says Stone, who served as an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
nutrient-dense part of the animal, Lambert explains, and a fantastic source of vitamin B12. “There are nine neurotransmitters running around in your brain right now that are making it possible for you to even listen to me,” she tells a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Wanderlust event. The brand, she says, is synonymous with “finding out what’s important to you and whether your life is moving in the right direction. Being vulnerable. Being honest with yourself.” Wanderlust retreats combine yoga,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
our own sense of right and wrong, true to the shared values that this process and these answers spoke to, and still represent one of the parties in an honorable way. So there were some common values that went beyond each individual party... View Details