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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, grieving after the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Thelma Olexa (AuthorHouse) Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins by Tom Perkins (MBA ’57) (Gotham Books) Sentinel of the Seas: Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built by Dennis M. Powers (MBA ’69) (Kensington... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
shores. The true danger of COVID-19 lies in its ability to spread aggressively while taking a heavy toll on a significant portion of those who contract it. Consequently, it places severe stress on hospitals, which only exacerbates the problem and ultimately leads to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
native would have relished every whistle-stop appearance of his book tour. Ambitious, inquisitive, and brimming with gusto for life’s adventures, it’s easy to imagine Valenti sitting down with Charlie Rose or holding forth at a book reading. Instead, his View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
geographic spread,” she says, “the virus has extended to affect a wider range of animals than we’ve ever seen before. It’s infecting cats, for example, and has even caused the death of tigers. It has a high fatality rate in humans; we... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, which deals in part with Sandberg’s coming to terms with the death of her husband David Goldberg in 2015. After her loss, the article notes, Sandberg felt “isolated” at... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
manufacturing practices documented in their book, the authors are optimistic about the future of U.S. apparel and textile firms. "This important sector of our economy is more advanced and productive than ever," concludes Hammond. "As Mark Twain might have put it, any... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
examining, all while dancing on the delicate line of Chinese censorship. Recently, I wrote about the right to physician-assisted death and the alienation of Chinese modern feminism. This new “job” has invigorated me and returned me to my... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
it is for every person on the team to feel they can speak up and challenge the established points of view from leadership. We may not be putting people in life or death situations in spaceships, but I do think the success of the VR... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
The Real Meaning of Love
people’s awareness of the warning signs of abusive and controlling relationships. “The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love was started in 2010 after Yeardley, who was a University of Virginia fourth year, was beaten to death by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
ice and an accessible Arctic, it is still a cold, dark, forbidding place that requires special provisions and extensive preparation. Last spring, we mourned the deaths of two sailors on a British submarine; the summer before that, two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I was watching CNN in the airport and saw graphic reports on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
Edmondson and Joe Fuller picked it up after Garvin’s death in 2017 and retitled it Becoming a General Manager—and then retitled it again, Making Difficult Decisions, in 2023. Zuzul joined this year, and it’s been a happy reunion with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
Washington for four years. That was the first time I was on my own, and I realized I really do love this work, the public service aspect, and the business challenge itself. I also realized I'm pretty good at it. THE BIGGEST killer of family businesses, other than the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
mingling with celebrities was all in a day’s work. “My ambition to do something uniquely creative was born at an early age,” says Wilson, who often hung out on the sets of hits such as Till Death Us Do Part (later remade as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
ways to fulfill it" still inform today's politics. Excerpts from the book follow. After the death of his mother when he was a young child, and with no father in his life, Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), who would become America's first... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
death -- from antiaircraft artillery that filled the sky with exploding shells or surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that, in Baldwin's words, "looked like burning telephone poles" as they streaked through the air. Maneuvering the plane to... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
can take you a long way.” The following year, at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AG Bell) in Washington, D.C., after illness and death struck top executives there, Sommer managed key tasks and projects so well that she... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Mourns Professors Christensen and Vernon
As this issue of the Bulletin went to press, we learned of the deaths of two of the School's most distinguished emeriti faculty members. C. Roland Christensen, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus, died on August 28 of... View Details