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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
stuff. One of the things that I was seeing recently is tech used in interesting ways, where in, I think it was Las Vegas,where someone would approach a little monitor and it would take their temperature. And it would say they were okay... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Assets: These Little Piggies
Not long after Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) cofounded the consultancy Monitor Group in 1983, a competitor made it known that pigs would fly before the firm succeeded. “That became our rallying cry,” Fuller says. He hung a terra-cotta flying... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
in six-month apprenticeships with corporate partners like Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, and Partners HealthCare. Upon graduation, Chertavian says, more than 85 percent of Year Up alumni find jobs in financial services or IT support. Recognized twice by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
the top 200 businesses worldwide have adopted business codes, fewer than half indicate that they monitor compliance. And gray areas will persist. Notes Wells: “It’s not clear that subsidiary managers always want clarity from their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
golfer). Strategy came later, with the encouragement of HBS professor Chris Christensen; Porter went on to earn a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard and later cofound the Monitor Group consulting firm in 1983. In Porter’s view,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Bjerg is staring blankly at his computer screen. He adjusts his two monitors and fiddles with the speakers as he awaits the start of his next League of Legends battle. As he does many days, Bjerg will sit here playing the popular video... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future
conference examined the business potential inherent in Africa's unparalleled natural resources, awe-inspiring geography, unexplored markets, and population of over seven hundred million. Maurice Templesman, chairman of the Corporate Council on Africa, and The View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
thing—the silver lining for climate. On average, those reductions are projected to be somewhere between 5 to 10 percent for the year. Now those are really rough estimates, and we actually don't have really good tools or data on real real-time View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
people moving from rural provinces to work in coastal-region factories, this status translated into officially sanctioned lower wages and poorly monitored working conditions. This system is now under assault by the AFL-CIO, which regards... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
done, but we retain U.S. production. That flexibility and one-stop shopping is a key to attracting business.” For manufacturing operations conducted in China, CGM has experienced on-site teams that are well-versed in Chinese culture, business practices, and nuances.... View Details
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
2009), an entrepreneur with an engineering background. “I was trying to develop a way for women to monitor their own fertility at home,” she told the New York Times recently. “Those kinds of diagnostic tests require a lot of blood. So I... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
financial concepts into cocktail-napkin-sized explanations. In her suggestions to the Times, Hay pointed to the importance of understanding the power of compound interest; monitoring your credit, which can give you financial flexibility... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
while showing off an industrial refrigerator stacked with free-range eggs and 25-kilo blocks of Normandy butter. Trays of madeleines cool on racks. A few feet away, workers monitor a machine that wraps the tiny cakes individually in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
helping to monitor and oversee the 52 student clubs at HBS. Explains Minto, "One initially becomes involved with the SCC as a section representative; I saw being a rep as an opportunity to get to know and do something for my sectionmates... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
(“Warthog”). Flew 85 combat missions from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, from January 2003 to June 2003. Earned Air Medal four times. John A. Hollstein (MBA ’74), Colonel (retired) U.S. Air Force Reserve Former chief of monitoring for UN’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the building materials and automotive parts industries," she explains.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
Canadians.” Formerly a business strategy consultant at Monitor Group and marketing VP at Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, since 2011 Goldstein has been working as an independent consultant while parenting her three young children.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
handful more in other locations over the following two years, totaling $100 million in impact investments. Social Finance will work with state and local governments to structure and monitor the funded programs. “Social impact bonds have a... View Details