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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
housing at Radcliffe College. LAMBERT: I took the train from DC to Boston and a cab to the dorm at Radcliffe. The lady who met me at the door made me feel like I didn’t belong there. She told me my room wasn’t ready, so I walked to a park... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
business. His job titles have included urban youth worker, teacher, White House policy advisor, and fundraiser. He remembers an exercise in John Kotter's class at HBS that required each student to come up with a career plan. "I listed... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau. And yet, as View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
productive. I had no sense of time. I had fun.' That, to me, is beginning to articulate what spirituality, in terms of self-engagement and fulfillment, is all about." Jennifer F. Lawrence (MBA '87), a marketing consultant and professor at... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
being used by employers as they think about what they can be doing for their employees that have aging parents. I would say that the challenge is different from children. The aging parents often don't live in the house with the employees.... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
carbon neutral," he says. The entire process is a major technological undertaking—one Dawe says he probably wouldn't be involved with if he and C12 Energy cofounder Kurt Zenz House hadn't been introduced to each other by a Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres), AMC has 345 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens across the United States, with about 20,000 employees hosting some 200 million moviegoers each year. (AMC has the largest market share in... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
analogy that Jen Pahlka who's our executive director here uses, is the house is on fire right now. That means we actually need to run towards it, not away from it. Luna: And how does Code for America work? What are the fires that you're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
passage to Brisbane. After four years of penny-pinching, he purchased a house and summoned his wife and children. As the years passed, hard work and frugality enabled Russo’s father to buy several rental apartments and a small vineyard.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for investors. He is a founding partner of Emerging View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the marketplace understood that both mortgage behemoths enjoyed an implicit federal guarantee against failure, contend Hensarling and Sununu. Spurred on by lawmakers eager to expand homeownership, Fannie and Freddie so distorted the View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
steps and re-calculations. As he finds a sports auction house to consign his collection, he watches the auction market and reports on his findings as well as his strategies and successes. While dealing with... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
community. “Every night, 365 nights a year, he’s out there,” says Neel Ghose (MBA 2019), cofounder of the Robin Hood Army. “For him, it’s his own baby. It’s a platform for goodness.” This platform for goodness—which operates like a franchise model, with an umbrella... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
the lead car was almost thrown out several times. But the company has actually managed to change the world, which is pretty cool. That doesn’t happen all the time.” “The vision has always been compelling, and it’s always been bold,” Wilcox says during my visit to E... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
company Mobley to offer an alternative: an affordable way to furnish a home with stylish, quality pieces with a lease of 3 to 12 months, without the burden of ownership. Mobley’s entrée to the $230 billion market for furniture and home... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs. To understand what keeps great potential students from applying for an MBA, the School commissioned a market research study and learned that the most salient barriers to applying are financial... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
to drive a cheaper car, or insulate their house and be a little more energy efficient,” says Minnick. At the same time, however, the plan would use the extra revenues generated from the carbon fee to issue a tax credit to middle-class... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding