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- 14 Jul 2021
- News
Capitalizing On Remote Work, U.S. Cities Draw in Tech Workers
- 03 Apr 2020
- News
The Lessons We Choose
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
“Harvard@SXSW 2024,” a happy hour mixer co-hosted by the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Harvard Innovation Labs. Held on March 10 at Ember Kitchen in downtown Austin, the reception took advantage of the fact that many alumni would be in View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
beloved,” she says. But beloved didn’t pay the bills, and by 2015, after decades of pressure from big chains and the internet, the small, independent store was on the verge of closing. That’s when Brody, a New Yorker who spends her summers in the Hamptons, stepped in.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
that would complement the students’ discussion of The Sweet Hereafter by novelist Russell Banks. In his story of a deadly school bus accident told from four points of view, Banks depicts the complications that arise when media and out-of-town lawyers descend on a... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
The word “globalization” is bandied about so often, it has taken on a life of its own. Opinions differ as to whether it’s good, bad, or something in between. Yet everyone seems to agree that globalization has made the world smaller and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
been five days of massive rain. The dirt and gravel path was soggy and spongy. That reduced my average speed from around 14 to 8 miles per hour. By the end of the day, I was still about 25 miles away from Rochester, in a little town... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Today’s story is a break from our typical in-depth interview format. Today, we’re going to tell a story. It’s a story that starts with a tragic plane crash in 1944 outside a small View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
and supported the track programs at Stanford and at Drake University, where Johnson’s father began his coaching career in 1928. Closer to home, the foundation supports several smaller nonprofits that help local youth. “This View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
attorney, put up seed money and became a silent partner. (Jardine is no longer involved in the company; his ideals soon clashed with the realities of a commercial venture.) Soon after, Coup and Kim moved to Boulder, the laid-back college View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
revitalize the region’s ecotourism industry. “What was missing in that environment were business skills,” recalls Diamond, whose HBS admissions interview (conducted by phone from the Belize town of Punta Gorda) was interrupted by a balky... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Chimneys for a fee of $100,000. “We’re nothing more than glorified farmers here, but it’s a fun business, and there’s a little bit of glamour to it,” says Clay, who grew up in the small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. His family was in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
direct exposure to the daily life and potential business opportunities in base-of-the-pyramid markets. We arrive by van at the Santa Ana del Valle town square on Saturday morning. There’s a basketball court; a small, local history museum;... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
schools. We All Leak Eventually: Stories from a Humorously Unbalanced Mind by Larry Castriotta (MBA 1973) (Larry Castriotta) Writing of his life growing up in a small town within a tight, loving family, Castriotta revisits his childhood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
million to the relief effort, 100 percent of the proceeds from all items sold on this special section of the eBay Web site will go to one of four relief agencies. Not everyone could organize efforts on such a large scale, but the smaller... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Mosul. We supported the infantry soldiers who were securing the smaller towns on the roads leading to Baghdad from Kuwait. I didn’t get to fly, but I was given a leadership role. There was a lot of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
small town like Calhoun, Langford says. That’s more or less how he and his family came to foster a young child whose parents couldn’t care for her. The girl’s father, jailed on minor drug charges, was known to Langford—his grandmother had... View Details