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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
redoubled his professional reading. Beck learned to trust her instincts, even when they flew in the face of convention. Rather than follow industry practice and hire part-time employees, she insisted on full-time workers who were serious... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
now. Only Iraqis can secure their country. Give a date for Coalition withdrawal. Any date, even distant, would calm sensitivities. Hold immediate free and fair elections - open to all comers, including former government and Islamists.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
didn't have a chance to say goodbye. She'd had a heart attack and died. But when I recovered from her death I fell in love with a woman from Georgia and I got engaged to be married, and she started having some headaches in the summer, but... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Whether matching analytical wits once again with professors and classmates in Aldrich, lunching under the yellow-and-white tents behind Kresge, or savoring chance meetings with long-lost friends, the graduates and guests who returned to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
contacts that led to a position at Goldman Sachs, where she worked for 35 years before assuming a leadership role at JSJ Corporation. The first female HBS MBA hired by Goldman, she was preceded by Margaret Gilliam (HRPBA 1961), who worked... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
again at summer break. "We had a chance to speak with a range of people he works with and values, from the club's CEO and his assistant coaches, the players, and the youth team to his longtime assistant, the kit manager, and even the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
have to know a fair amount of neuroscience. And if you’re a good neuroscientist today, you have to know a fair amount of social psychology and basic social science. These are crosshatched fields. About a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a partnership that became iTrust dates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
and the participating organization. Approximately one-third of program alumni are now permanent hires of the organization, one-third are at a similar organization, and one-third have gone on to pursue a position in the private sector. “My... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
who have been orphaned, abandoned, and left destitute have been given a second chance to grow into well-adjusted, productive adults, thanks to the efforts of SOS-Kinderdorf International. Founded by Austrian-born Hermann Gmiener, who... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what you have done?" Williams asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," he said. In its first few years, the fund concentrated on raising money to support research, even hiring a research director to keep tabs on their... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
get behind their ideas, going through fertility treatments while launching a company, managing investor expectations, prioritizing mental health, setting benchmarks, hiring to fill experience gaps, and even returning VC funding. “It takes... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
community, see this new government as the now-or-never chance to finally set the country on solid footing. But Mitsotakis is clear that his goal is not growth at any cost, and it’s not just about business interests: To truly transform... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt's Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro Fiscal Policy Unit with a focus on energy subsidies and state debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
focused on hiring and empowering younger mainland Chinese with modern management training and experience and an open mind toward new ideas. It worked. Over the next two years, ASIMCO overhauled its management structure by bringing in more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
accommodate the balancing act of raising three children. Married to Brad Greenwald (MBA 1990), the Denver native decided that a career in writing would offer the best chance to create her own schedule. But what to write about? After... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
result of my arrogance from 30,000 feet. I failed to get the other groups invested in the program. I completely fiddle-dee-deed the long-lead timetable. I delegated the entire project to a handsome but clueless assistant product manager. When it became clear that this... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios