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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
all issues taken on by Boston-based Oxfam America, where she worked until recently as a special adviser in the private-sector department. “I was aware from a young age that Oxfam and organizations like it were fighting for my future,”... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We didn't have a lot of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
to scale couldn’t find a chief financial officer or a chief operating officer, so we got into executive search,” adds Bradach. To address this need, in 2003 Bridgespan launched Bridgestar, offering a full range of executive search... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2020 prompted reflection on how we could expand Edwards' active community engagement to provide even more support for our employees and communities, particularly as it relates to social equity and justice," said Scott Ullem (MBA 1994), Edwards’ chief View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
and cultural heritage of eastern Kentucky. By the turn of the millennium, however, financial instability, lack of a strategic plan, and leadership churn had begun to eat away at what had once been a vibrant institution with deep ties to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
regulation, consumer preferences, or technology change, managers in successful firms often respond with more of what worked in the past — a trap the author refers to as “active inertia.” When new realities call for new approaches, some experts View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
should deploy the radio to communicate with rural dwellers, since it has 99 percent reach in India,” he advised in a letter to the editor of theFinancial Times on Sept. 10. In a Sept. 3 letter in The National, he View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he became a special View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
it is more important than ever. Nonprofits rely on corporations, foundations, philanthropists, and ordinary citizens for funding, all of whom have far less money for donations than they did prior to the financial meltdown. The donors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
financial losses, and a large amount of wasted time for everyone involved. This book was written to help a person, family, or team transform any challenge or problem using a proprietary six-step process. It brings organizations together... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
give; what would be some steps you would advise people to take to begin this process of examination and giving? Campbell: It starts with making the decision and saying, OK, if I look at my budget, and I want to be able to give, you know,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Adversity into Advantage, advises women that one way to avoid this trap is to answer the question that a male founder would be asked. “Redirect a question about risk with an answer about opportunity.” “Now, more than ever, emphasis on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their... View Details