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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO management View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
in this area in both our MBA and executive education programs. For a quarter of a century, our Owner/President Management Program has set the standard for educating entrepreneurial managers for leadership positions around the world. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
“Surely you don’t want me to hire somebody for a job that doesn’t exist?” The reaction from callers has been very positive and very respectful. Months of bad press after 9/11 must have crushed morale. How did you turn that around? Through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
boards, including those of UAL (the parent company to United Airlines), Liz Claiborne, and St. John's College. Part of that transition includes his position as executive- in-residence at Columbia Business School, where he teaches... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
was encouraging more patients to seek medical care. The second component of EMRI — research — focuses on the longer term. More than fifty doctors work as researchers, constantly tracking emergency calls to better position ambulances to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
hair, each containing positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles suspended in clear fluid. To form an E Ink electronic display, the ink is printed onto a sheet of plastic film that is laminated to a layer of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability. Housing is generally considered "affordable" when its cost does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
your behavior or the world will end.’” “On the other hand, local food systems and community agriculture is essentially the positive side of that same coin. It has immediate impact, everyone relates to it, and if you make good food... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
interviews, suggests that there are four basic elements in a successful life: happiness (feelings of pleasure or contentment); achievement (accomplishments that compare favorably against similar goals others have strived for); significance (the sense that you’ve made a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has had a View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them. In other words, Cuba was open for business. Cuba Educational Travel (CET) was perfectly positioned to take advantage of the opening. Founder Collin Laverty had first visited Cuba on a family trip as a teenager, later completing an... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
results—in terms of worker satisfaction, client satisfaction, and improvements in work processes—were so positive that within four years, over 900 BCG teams from 30 countries had gone through similar exercises. So this was a team-by-team... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
can impede the progress of their creative teams. One of our strongest findings is that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. Pride in accomplishment and positive feelings about oneself and one’s colleagues give a... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
on all levels, personally and professionally. Our theme, Emerge Stronger, really spoke to people. The speakers we attracted were just mind-blowing! I think we hit on something unique here by looking back on the year with positivity and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
interdisciplinary life-sciences research center on Western Avenue across from the HBS campus, and several of the Harvard professional schools are scheduled to move next to us within several years. This will eventually position us at the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
sensible way and inform you about sort of your subconscious and what it wants to do. So there's a positive there. All things in moderation, but there's a positive there. Like a glass of wine, first glass of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
subscribers in financial services and the media who pay more than $1,000 a month to lease them. Just sixteen years after leaving a partnership position at Salomon Brothers, Bloomberg is outpacing more established competitors to make his... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley’s personal involvement in its digital strategy and the recruitment of key positions is clear. But that success has been like the man himself—dramatic yet understated. The turnaround deployed two key tactics central to any... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
and the Mito city administration, and also the strong passion of the people of Mito. DM: What impact has the project already had? What are the positive changes that you see in the city and the region at large? YH: Mito had not been seeing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell