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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of finance at the Boston office of one such organization, The Community... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
dependent on their star talent and its motivation and productivity. As our economy shifts more toward “knowledge workers,” we believe that professional service firms will be a model for many other types of businesses — from technology to View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
You have to take care of your gear. So really, I was looking at the minimum of three hours or so of chores a day. Twenty-four hours in the day, three hours of chores, and I'm skiing 14 to 20 hours. So you do the math on the sleep. There... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
satisfaction of applying their learning to a problem about which they care a great deal." Funded by the School principally through generous alumni gifts and supplementing what employer organizations can pay, fellowships enable students to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
There was almost a riot.” After observing her first successful open-heart surgery and the emotional post-operative meeting between the doctor and the baby's grateful parents, McIntosh, who speaks Russian and has a master's degree in public View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Lee Hood and Nathan Price. Lee is a giant of biology. He's the guy that came up with the algorithm to decode the human genome, and he has had numerous other discoveries and his longtime associate Nathan Price have written a book about a new way to do View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
country has a First World infrastructure - financial institutions, health care, and transportation, for instance - and it is rich in natural resources." South Africa is indeed the linchpin of the region, but it also faces unique... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
Dean Nitin Nohria. “He cared deeply about every member of the HBS community and believed in the School’s ability to transform lives. By encouraging us all to dream big dreams—in effect, spurring our intellectual ambition—he set the School... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
depends on the ability to deliver great service. The Low Cholesterol Cookbook and Action Plan by Karen Swanson (MBA 1990) (Rockridge Press) Getting serious about heart health can be overwhelming. That’s why cardiac dietitian Jennifer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
received numerous awards for teaching at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Since 1995, Rogers has combined his firsthand business experience and solid academic foundation with his gift for pedagogy to make his Entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
Buell sprints from the Skydeck, his gray jacket flapping, to add another student idea to the slowly growing list on the chalkboard. The Managing Health Care Delivery Executive Education class is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career, and he came to HBS to start the... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
electrified, both because of the greenhouse-gas issue and economics. “Here’s an interesting piece of data: The size of the storage market for transportation is potentially 10 times the size of the storage market for the grid. If we care... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Nation in health care, with a focus on preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. "I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies," says Keen. Earlier, he'd experienced the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computers from an experimental technology into a commercially viable, enterprise-grade tool that will be exponentially more powerful than today’s digital computers. Any sector that relies on computers for simulation, optimization, machine learning, or security—from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
leadership roles in numerous local efforts, from revitalizing Main Street — hence the farmer’s market — to saving historic buildings, to revamping the finances of local companies and nonprofits. While her involvement has sometimes left... View Details