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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
investment. The founder had this crazy idea that eventually there would be streaming. Until then, he would ship very expensive DVDs all over the country. Our flexibility gave them time to figure out the business model.” Redeployment:... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Reinventing the Future of Business
will position HBS and the University overall as global leaders in reshaping the landscape of the digital-first world and the role of business in that transformation. The School is able to launch an endeavor of this magnitude because of gifts to the HBS Fund, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
trust the organization and the leadership, you want to give them the flexibility to put donor dollars where they are most urgently needed,” says Victoria, who joined the Boston Consulting Group after graduating from Yale. In 2002, she... View Details
- 29 May 2023
- News
Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas
As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches, and technologies that inspire new ventures or ways of thinking that keep companies relevant.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
the School will need many years from now. He notes that since his gift won’t benefit the School until after his passing, and because he is confident the future stewards of HBS will use his support where it will have the biggest impact, he sees tremendous value in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997) and Christy Dosiou Andreas Stavropoulos and Chrysoula “Christy” Dosiou are steadfast advocates for the HBS Fund. The couple, who were high school sweethearts in their native Greece, see the flexible support... View Details
- 15 Sep 2017
- News
Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)
talented faculty and students,” he says. “With a trust, I was able to make a bigger gift to HBS and receive an income for life.” His trust will ultimately support the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can use to... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
and helped take the company public. Along the way, she developed policies that enabled women to thrive at work—telecommuting (before it had a name) and flexible scheduling, among others. “There were no models for how to manage work life... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Valleydene provided Barford with the flexibility he needed to spend more time with his ailing wife (who died in 1991 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis) and six children. Beyond the boardroom, Barford has been associated in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
technologies enable remote work environments, our use of large buildings powered by fossil energy is also facing change, with worker preferences for cleaner and more flexible “digital”-enabled work environments. Traditional approaches to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
24 papers in Colorado was structured to keep control in local hands? We set up the Colorado News Conservancy as a public benefit corporation. We earmarked a majority of shares to be eventually fully locally owned. The Conservancy is designed to be a View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
background, and they have a good idea of what they want to do with that experience when they get here." The flexibility and freedom of academia has an entrepreneurial appeal that is extremely rewarding for those who want to set their own... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
housing in the next few years, and Dlodlo is currently looking to assume control of a large portfolio of vacant properties presented to her by community leaders, in which she intends to house frontline health care workers. The program should give her access to View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
number of people who used the pandemic as a time to scale back. In doing so, the latter category has given rise to entire movements of more flexible drinking styles, from the sober-curious or “flexi-drinkers,” who take a part-time view of... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
estimated that some 30 percent of women would leave the professional world to become caregivers, but that 70 percent would have stayed if they had access to a flexible schedule. It was an “aha” moment for Auerbach. She initially launched... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
New Conventions
Illustration by Dongik Lee HBS hosts some 700 events a year, ranging from research conferences to symposia to student shows. In April, the School broke ground on Klarman Hall. At the heart of this new state-of-the-art convening center is a View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
elsewhere.” Many alumni interviewed for this article also mentioned the degree of flexibility manufacturing offers. Although Linda Katz (MBA 1994) of Molded Dimensions has been spending more time at home with the couple’s three children,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
When she became a new mom, Allison O’Kelly (MBA 1999) wanted to have more flexibility in her life, and realized that other parents did as well. As founder and CEO of Mom Corps, O’Kelly turned a personal challenge into a profession. As a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details