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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Compare Canadian and US Health Care Systems In partnership with the Cleveland Clinic Canada, the HBS Club of Toronto hosted 40 alumni on September 12 for a lively panel discussion exploring the future... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
computer system to allow the company to reduce the costs paid to other firms—software expert Tuchman’s area—the men had to build trust with consumers used to relying on big-name financial services firms. That meant getting the right... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
young, Wiley was a pioneer in negotiating a flexible schedule for her public policy consulting work with Urban Systems Research and Engineering. "Of course, as a working parent, any choice you make is demanding," she cautions, remembering... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
decades of his career, he cofounded and ran Brooktrout, growing it to a $150-million-a-year company that designed voicemail systems when everyone else was still using cassettes. After retiring, he became CEO of Groove Mobile, the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the ballot box, but an entrenched... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
as a sublime integration of operations and marketing,” says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the first time this fall in the elective course Consumer Marketing. “Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to publish a lot of books; that you... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
traditional problem of significant air leakage around window and door frames. An air-exchange system turns over the filtered air supply in the house every three hours, providing superior indoor-air quality and helping the house maintain a... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every interaction with our system is logged, and this data is used to give students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy by Karthik Ramanna (Univ. of Chicago Press) Some institutions underlying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
you outside your comfort zone, you may have to be the one who initiates those frequent check-ins. Schedule a conversation once a month to ask questions, let your boss know where you are, and get feedback. Cultivate a support system among... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
have been campaigns in favor of automobile insurance reform and against smoking. As told in the book, both efforts were conducted with typical frenetic panache. Tobias, whose principal residence is Miami, spent more than $250,000 of his own money to push for reform of... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
we actually use it. A shipper driven by overnight deliveries may never before have understood the importance of date-sensitive systems as they relate to leasing, for example. More important, we all are discovering that in the Y2K context,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
you can't do something, you're right. For those seven years for me, I believed I wouldn't find freedom, and I was exactly right. And I believed I wouldn't have children. It wasn't until I started to shift my belief systems that my life... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
do things better on the other side. In our sector, particularly on the early childcare side, the crisis is showing how essential those programs are—not only for child development, but also for families to be able to work. I can envision reinventing childcare and having... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
well as leading thinkers and decision makers, to discuss ways to make the US savings system more secure and inclusive. Ackerley’s group, in partnership with insurers, also announced an innovative investment solution, called LifePath... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
rolling. We are seeing that change can happen at the school level. Now the challenge is at the system level.” —Wendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach For America “The mix of government and private industry responsibility really depends on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
was so successful we had to establish it as a regular commercial bank to accommodate its growth. Today, BancoSol leads the Bolivian banking system in profitability and makes 40 percent of the system's loans; it has 76,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
getting internal systems to work together with other airlines and, culturally, has not adopted e-mail and voice mail as a means of dealing with customers and each other. "We resist nonhuman interfaces," commented John Denison, the... View Details