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- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. The enterprise has been able to reduce the cost of surgery by up to 60 percent, working with support from partners that include Duke University, World Diabetes Foundation, Pfizer... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
market leader with $330 billion dollars in assets under management. Along the way, he has emerged as a patron of education, best known for launching the Schwarzman Scholars, an academic and cultural immersion program designed to foster... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
magazine’s poll of money managers. She eventually went on to serve as global head of research, where she helped design and build DLJ’s global equity research business. Decker’s next move was to one of the companies she had View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
plaster ceilings, skylights, and enormous wooden tables back to their original grandeur. The largest business library in the world, the new Baker Library is also designed to be an academic center, a place where visiting scholars discuss... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business opportunity, Hanna realized, for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
was designed to provide business expertise to places in need; Goodwin brought his emergency-response experience to provide safe water systems and support medical programs. Months later, he was alarmed by a cholera outbreak rapidly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
services. The first really magnificent building was 998 Fifth Avenue, built in the early 1900s. It was known as simply 998. Everybody knew what it was. The same was true of 740 Park Avenue and 834 Fifth Avenue—where Rockefellers did live. Both buildings were View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
"We design them here, but the labor is cheaper in Hell." © Drew Dernavich/Condé Nast Publications/Cartoonbank.com Today, many people are looking to high-technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
polling stations. For example, the biometric identification systems designed to prevent voter fraud were not working at all polling stations, and systems designed to publicly... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the newly designed Alumni Web site (www.alumni.hbs.edu), which was launched earlier this summer. In addition, a subset of the committee worked with the School to develop an in-depth, informative, and lively... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
younger generation. Seeing their values gives me hope that society will come to its senses and turn the planet around.” Sant channels his passion for the environment into his business and philanthropic endeavors. Having built a remarkably successful firm focused on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
first-ever for teenagers, was inspired by the success of a preteen program begun in 2003. After turning the discussion to favorite products (portable CD players were popular) as well as to others that didn’t work so well (toasters came in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
(MBA 2007). Mobius’s founder, British entrepreneur Joel Jackson, moved to rural Kenya to work in a micro-forestry enterprise in 2009. During his field visits, he encountered the problem of expensive secondhand vehicles, many of them... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
Calabrese: "Never mistake motion for action." Courtesy Julia Calabrese A commercial real-estate mogul who quotes Hemingway? That would be Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995), CEO at London-based McArthurGlen Group UK Ltd., a leading owner, manager, and developer of View Details
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
retailer to join as a team member. “I want to create a great brand in the men’s space,” he explains. “I don’t have any aspiration to be a designer or creative director. I want to work on the business side,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
values, and corporate accountability. In early 2003, Dean Kim B. Clark appointed the interdisciplinary group of senior faculty members to the design team. Meeting weekly to hash out their ideas, the group View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
resulted in 96,402 potentially preventable deaths from 2006 to 2008. Health care will change, because it must. Designing that transition with minimum threat and maximum benefit for patients is a delicate management challenge that will... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
for the chemical formula of carbon dioxide) with his father and fellow green chemical engineer, Terry Brix, and began to design a processing device that works a lot like a fuel cell, but in reverse. When a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon