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Terrance Rogers

No one ever told my mother to dream. She grew up in 1950s Georgia, where nothing of importance was expected of little black girls. Yet without a high school degree, she scraped her way up from rural poverty to build a wonderful life for me and my siblings. Often having... View Details

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Suzanne Floy Gauron

tree was weathered and peeling, but still strong enough to stand years of coastal nor'easters. Refusing to grow efficiently skywards, its green swooping branches stretched outward, dipping low enough for a child to climb. That balance of... View Details

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Jeanine Barnett

struggled with fiscal discipline, but the ones that got it right struck an elusive yet harmonious balance between art and science. Today as an apparel buyer, with every fabric approval and pricing analysis for my assortment, I do what I... View Details

22 Apr 2014
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Putting a spell on theatergoers

old—while also keeping an eye on revenues—has been Horn's focus during his career in film and television. "The hardest part is finding that elusive balance between the pure creative sensibilities that would drive one to do certain things... View Details

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Considering Retirement

"So you're actually thinking about retiring?!" Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will... View Details

November 2009
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An Entrepreneur's Journey: Simi Nwogugu

By: John A. Davis and Shirley Spence

This multimedia case follows Simi Nwogugu's life from childhood in Lagos, Nigeria to Mount Holyoke and Wall Street, back to Lagos to found a chapter of Junior Achievement, through marriage and HBS to motherhood and disenchantment with opportunities for mothers in the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Customization and Personalization; Business Ventures; Nigeria; United States

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From Wealth to Well-Being? Money Matters, but Less than People Think

By: Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn

While numerous studies have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Work-Life Balance; Satisfaction; Income; Household

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04 Apr 2022
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The Essentials: Retaining Talent

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Latter-day Saint Student Association | MBA

Latter-day Saint Student Association The purpose of LDSSA is to help LDS students stay close to Jesus Christ and grounded in His teachings in an otherwise hectic and demanding environment. The club will support students in their efforts to View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit

PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in economics at Princeton. But after studying with ethnographer John... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

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Patricia Barron

at home gave balance that I did not know I needed. As I approached 43, our son arrived. Several months later we added a good friend's two sons when she died of cancer. Flexibility, straight talk, both key to my journey....emigrating,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Noted & Quoted

“Trust your instincts 98 percent, your observations 50 percent, and your conclusions 25 percent.” —Zynga founder & CEO Mark Pincus (MBA 1993), discussing the entrepreneur’s need to balance data analysis and observation when evaluating... View Details

18 Aug 2014
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Fighting income inequality with early education reform

economics to solve the problems of education resonated with me,” says Dias Griffin, who gave CHECC $13 million through the family foundation named for her and her husband, Ken. At the core of the program is a carefully curated curriculum that View Details

03 Aug 2020
News

A Clean Start

that people basically pay us to use their CO2.” The added bonus for the rest of us? A solution to one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems. “We’re upsetting the balance of nature by emitting too much CO2,” says Brix, “and... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

Summer 2016
Article

Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu

The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Balance and Stability; Operations; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination

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2017
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The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer

By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani

We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household... View Details