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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority —... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
important people in my life right now are actually my classmates. However, I think one thing I kind of reflected on was that the relationships, the community, the network matters only after your own... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
Omowale Casselle What does your work involve? "My official title is director of product management, SAMPLEit, a new venture at redbox. In this role, I'm responsible for leveraging technology across our different product lines—kiosk,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
your perspective, given that you spent a number of years with Grove? Oh yes. As I write in the acknowledgments, I work for a university with the motto Veritas. You try to tell the truth. Nevertheless, when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
often, those who have experienced vast success in the public realm look back and regret not spending more time with family and friends. They wish they’d actually gone on that cruise of the Greek islands, or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
discusses the deeper meaning of the finish line. READ MORE Sunny Stroeer: I've always been enthralled with big, challenging, daunting goals, and one of the adventure challenges that I kind View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
rest of life and create an opportunity to make a psychological break from the past, Beshears says. These moments, such as a new calendar year or a birthday, lend themselves to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
since early 2012, and it’s been an experience he never expected as “a guy who spent the first 40 years of his life never thinking about anywhere outside the US.” “I fell in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
of dignity even to something like money management. But better yet, it took me 30 years to get there, find something that is genuinely valuable. And what I did was I picked protecting nature first View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Hall, who expects to commit up to $250 million over the next five years to create about 500 new charter schools. The Fund typically targets operators that run one or two successful charter schools and want to scale up to eight or more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
always an easy task. Today’s students seem preoccupied with job offers almost from the time they arrive. Recruiting briefings start in the fall of the first year, and the competition is tough. Against that backdrop, it’s sometimes... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
reached middle and high school, the gap between the high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A few years later, Stanford University released a study that confirmed her observations. “Chicago had... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
opportunity to work in derivative markets like secondhand clothing. “I wrote my final paper about thredUP,” Reinhart continued. “When I went back and read it recently, it was kind of hilarious. Once you View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Whitman, and James Wolfensohn to get a sense of their lives away from the corner office. James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) WOLFENSOHN James Wolfensohn’s achievements in business, public policy, philanthropy, and the arts include ten View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the years,” says HBS professor Bill Sahlman, a contest organizer with faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
capacity. In illustrating this point in a book on macroeconomics that I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted three people: President Herbert Hoover, who was the US president when the Great Depression... View Details