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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
in part, perhaps, to its tough, unglamorous realities. “Anyone who does a good job in the food industry and makes money works really, really hard,” says Keith Garner, owner of Pasta Cuisine, a restaurant and catering business in Oakland,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
whose jobs rely on getting ideas to market. All of a sudden, you’re not in the car business. You’re in the business of being fast. Local Motors’ 3D-printed car, the Strati, takes about 44 hours to print and has an electric engine that can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality
early 1980s, needy students typically got loans through banks. But too often that financial burden compelled them to take only high-paying jobs upon graduation. The fellowships free them from that constraint; the students who have enjoyed... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- News
Acts of Kindness
what God called me to do. Now, that's sort of a strange thing, and nothing happened for two years, until I discovered that the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches was looking for an executive secretary. I applied for the View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
that the company doesn’t like, or isn’t willing to rezone a chunk of land, Bezos would be able to say “the next 10,000 jobs could go into either of our headquarters locations. What are you willing to do for us now?” Wilcox predicts. “He’s... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
EL-HAGE: Generous alumni support has helped make HBS a “great institution.” Seven years ago, Nabil El-Hage took a one-semester sabbatical from his high-pressure day job to teach two finance courses at HBS. He enjoyed the experience so... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
large. So when I look at things and my job and everything I do, I always try to make sure that I am accomplishing those two things: benefiting individuals and making sure that their lives are going to be better because of my work, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in pursuit of higher market value.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. Esquel also works to enhance the well-being of its employees. “Their health and safety,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
influence on the thousands of blind people it serves every year. Still, he wasn’t likely to take the job just because he happened to be a blind CEO. “Entering the blindness business was never really my objective at this stage in my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
coach, and former CEO of FCB-Ulka Advertising—was rejected at his dream job interviews, denied promotions, and turned down by potential clients. He now knows that he eventually succeeded because of the way he handled these rejections.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
advisor to the newly formed government of East Timor. “You had yesterday’s freedom fighters now trying to figure out how to run a country,” he says. “Our job was to help them navigate the big policy and technical issues of various... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
stay, and job satisfaction of staff. In the study, the researchers looked at CEOs with tenure in at least two organizations and compared the performances of hospitals with new CEOs against those that did not experience a change at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
idea (no business plan necessary) in thirty seconds, with the two best ideas getting a second, longer hearing of two minutes. The winning concept was an online site that encourages teachers to share lesson plans and best practices. The event also presented a career... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
would help create multiple startups at the same time?" That's the idea behind MassChallenge, the startup accelerator and competition—now the world's largest—that Nigam cofounded in 2009 after leaving his job as a Bain consultant. Based in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
disseminating their ideas to a broader audience. One product HBX plans to launch next year is a suite of pre-MBA courses drawn from HBS's pre-matriculation and Analytics programs. It will be designed for serious and committed learners, typically undergraduates taking... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
decision? FL: Well, I had been up to my ears fighting the unions, and I really got to the point of thinking that there was life outside the airline business. The unions had done a very good job of painting me out to be a tough guy. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from... View Details