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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
was 24 and an extremely reckless person, especially when it came to driving. Skydiving became a way to channel that recklessness into a much more structured and regulated sport. I’m one of the few people who didn’t start their skydiving... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
platform that screens temporary employees and places them where they would fit best, within 24 hours. In Latin America, 5 billion days of work are lost annually due to turnover and absenteeism. At the same... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Altimeter off the ground, serving as CFO from 2008 to 2011. "As the company grew, other people were able to fill in, and I could spend more time with Zetta Research," he says. "I still contribute unofficially to ongoing strategy and direction. It's not View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
members Carliss Baldwin, Carl Kester, Michael Porter, and Howard Stevenson.) Interviews with some of the MBA alumni currently enrolled in or recently graduated from the Doctoral Programs underscore that observation. But first, you have to get in. Last year, 935... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
large corporation to buy and run a business, as well as the questions of working with your spouse and maintaining a balance between traveling and having time for family. “Entrepreneurial,” for me, meant running my own company. It wasn’t a start-up that required... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
right now. And the weather and the terrain are an increasingly dangerous factor. And so I had to make the very heart-wrenching decision to delay for 24 hours and let the sun rise again and set again before... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
US Army War College was having a three-day workshop on critical infrastructure threats. He wangled an invitation from a retired general and drove seven hours from his home in New Hampshire to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he listened to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Ontario, and he would engage us in creative thinking about what we’d do, in addition to the hours we’d spend getting there in the car. We invented a lot of games to keep us occupied.” When the local Catholic newspaper ran a jingle-writing... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
in some way, even when it's my own personal time, or a vacation, or whatever. So with that fitness point system, I decided to just add a set of points for time in the sun, with the logic being vitamin D is good for you. So for every View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
presentations, office hours with mentors, networking sessions, company tours, and workshops. In return, NeuroLaunch receives stock in the companies it assists. The culmination is a “demo day,” when its portfolio companies join other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
U.S. economy, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to energize you and give you a sense of accomplishment.” Jana Kirlin Brownell From a Historic Manufacturing City, a Family Company Brings USA Lighting to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
Depatie Art by Scott Laumann Founded in 1981, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants is America’s first (and largest) boutique hotel group. With its hosted evening wine hour (where you might play Wii or have your tarot cards read), whimsical style,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
play out, consumers, as usual, are doing their own thing. According to an October 2014 comScore survey, 24 percent of millennials do not subscribe to a pay-TV package at all (13 percent were cord-cutters, 11 percent were “cord-nevers”);... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
life. There are only 24 hours in a day. So work to improve your time management skills every chance you get. List and prioritize what’s important to you in terms of family, career, and other parameters. Use... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
tools are usually just a way to get something online quickly, provided it fits one of the use cases that the tool covers). But Bubble is very open-ended. It requires some learning, but it lets people build exactly what they want, as they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
with simple explanations. And women project onto men their own game-playing motives. “Oh, he didn’t call me within 24 hours. It was 28 hours before he called. What does that mean?” It doesn’t mean anything!... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Charles and taking in the sights.” Happy accident: “I’m a more quantitative person, and my management consulting experience—which focused on materials and metals—was very analytical, so I wanted a business profession that fit that. But I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
things like happy hours and team get-togethers. Now we have Zoom lunches so people have an opportunity to eat lunch together. We have “bev bashes,” as in beverage bashes, on a weekly basis on Fridays. I do a bev bash every other week with... View Details