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- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
paid sick leave and the flexibility to work from home, or even abroad. Our hourly employees, working in Rent the Runway’s warehouse, on the customer service team and in our retail stores, had to face life events like caring for a newborn,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
“What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social impact?” —MIKE FEERICK (MBA 1993) “What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
executive director to build the processes and systems to enable us to onboard and serve these organizations. Know any HBS alumni interested in jumping on board?!” What inspired the creation of PowerUP? MGA: “Austin’s profound impact on my View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
phenomenon that retailers have also seen in categories such as home and fashion, but beauty’s more accessible price point makes it a natural space for retailers to experiment with the hybrid shopping model. The everyday presence of beauty products in a consumer’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice Bill George. George asked Whitehead about... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
Section B, year of 1979. I would urge people not to think of retirement as a term at all. Now you are at a stage of life where you have freedom to choose how you will engage your time and energy, your purpose. You have the financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
extent, they argue, life expectancy is determined mostly by where you reside. People in developed economies have a good shot at seeing 80, while life View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent price spike. We saw the growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
dimmer than they’d thought: In addition to Deborah’s ovarian cysts, Jake had a lower- than-normal sperm count. The couple went through three rounds of fertility treatment, all unsuccessful. Their experience made one thing clear: “We had no idea what we were in for,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast Illustrations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
than mere life phase. Take how they were raised. This is a generation that’s grown up as the center of attention, thrust into the nucleus of the family, with parents orbiting around them. They have been told they can be anything they want... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
spring Harvard Business Press will publish an edited volume of the colloquium papers, which we expect to serve as the foundation for a doctoral course on leadership research and scholarship. We’ve also established the Leadership Research... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
car-sharing service that is now a publicly traded, global business. Women are great entrepreneurs, and it takes an entrepreneurial mindset to transform an organization, an industry, and a society. Do you think today's women MBA students have different View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
enjoy team management for the teaching aspect. It’s personally very rewarding to see someone take my advice or general direction and produce useful results. I enjoy turnarounds because they are very difficult and no one expects the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Don’t rush into the market. “Take some time to consider what you want to drive the next career decision. Is it long-term objectives, or do you want to focus on what’s going on in your life right now?” One of Burton’s clients is about to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
federal regulation. So my bottom line is we need a financial product safety commission that ensures some basic safety for American families.” Don’t Expect CEOs in Handcuffs Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw, former chairman of... View Details