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- 12 Mar 2019
- News
Acting Naturally
what comes next in everything that we do. We have a very diverse group of people that we work with, because the business is complex. And somehow it all works, where everybody has bought into this common purpose of creating natural products and View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Roger Frisch, a concert violinist with the Minnesota Orchestra, sees his instrument as an extension of himself—each time he pulls the bow across its strings, the vibrations seem to echo through him. So in June 2009,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
Enriquez: Exploring in Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia. The future is so yesterday. It's already here, and everywhere around us. The problem is, most of us just can't see it. Fortunately, the future is on exhibit this week, and Juan Enriquez (MBA '86) will be our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an environment of increasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
they’re just curious because their business somehow sources from the region. Ten or twenty years ago, a whole slew of people became China watchers. Whether you were of Chinese descent or not, you suddenly had to care about what was going... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
affected areas to restock shelves and give taxed local staff needed time off. In the early days of the pandemic, it meant doing whatever could be done to stock toilet paper. Weckert estimates that in one week, the company sold three rolls for every Australian man,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
evidence has shown that social behavior—including helping others—improves our mental and physical health and extends life expectancy. One study on mortality following 7,000 people found that the risk of death among men and women with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
personal and career development. Join a well-managed, growing organization. Keep family and friends first. Find your own way of giving back. Pro bono work I have three interests — education, the environment, and health View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Research Online
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to give patients longer lives. An... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has been the case. A New Jersey... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
Swearengin: Leadership with the game on the line. Photo courtesy Julian Swearengin Julian Swearengin (MBA 2003) has loved football ever since he began playing the game at age 5. “Growing up poor and on welfare in Detroit, the classroom and the field were the only two... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
As David Linn (MBA 2000) and his wife of five years, Jen Goodman Linn (MBA 1999), sat across a table for two at an outdoor cafe in Manhattan, they looked like any other young couple sharing lunch on a sunny spring day. But there was nothing casual about their... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
Amy Schiffman Langer "My life experiences inform my work, and vice versa," says Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977). She has turned physical challenges—breast cancer, a disability, and chronic pain—into a focus on cause-marketing and advocacy. "I've parlayed my misfortunes... View Details
- 04 Feb 2011
- News
Using Crowdcasting To Find Treatments
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
ROYAL REVELATIONS: The HBS Club of London recently hosted more than 150 alumni and friends at the famed Kensington Palace for a discussion on "Restoring a Historic Royal Palace and Bringing its Stories to Life." Officials from Historic Royal Palaces walked guests... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
multinational corporations, including Sears Roebuck, Wal-Mart, Bank of America, and American Express. He has also served on the board of Youth Services International, which provides care and developmental services for at-risk youth. He... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
times like these,” he quipped. “Don't even try to look for clues. For the next two or three years, what you're going to see is more of the same — dramatically slow economic growth.” Health care is one bright... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
sabotaged some of my most important relationships-- romantic ones, friendships, and alienated the people who cared about me the most, which were my family and friends. That, for me, really encompasses the seven year struggle. I'd say... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans thought about their safety,... View Details