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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes...
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- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
making them a more influential lever in many cases than states." Also intriguing is the "passion and tenacity with which NGO members and activists pursue their interests. They dedicate (and, in certain cases, risk) their lives...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information about large stock trades to their best, most lucrative clients. When a savvy activist investor submits a trading order through a brokerage firm, for example, the brokers will exploit this information by telling their favorite...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Once a Fulbright…
dream come true for a young girl who learned early to listen to my instincts — to pursue the seemingly impossible.” Active on several boards and a frequent speaker on corporate governance, Owades, who also founded Gardener’s Eden (later sold to Williams-Sonoma), was...
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog
opportunities, and hedge fund activist investing strategies. Over the course of the semester, several high-profile guest speakers, such as renowned CEOs and CFOs, short sellers, hedge fund managers, activist...
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- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
areas of regulation," he explains. In most cases, new regulations emerged from political coalitions forged between specific industries and groups of activist consumers. Questioning The Unquestioned View Trumbull nods in agreement when...
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by Kim Girard
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman
August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400...
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Harvard Business School
May 1970, they held a strike protesting the killing of two Black students in Jackson, Mississippi. AASU invited speakers such as civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson to campus. Working groups within AASU also addressed issues like...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ideas against AIDS
CLAWSON AND VIRAVAIDYA: Early allies in the fight against AIDS. Photo courtesy Curtis Clawson In Thailand, anti-AIDS activist Mechai Viravaidya is known for getting not only Santas and tollbooth operators to hand out condoms, but traffic...
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- 21 May 2021
- News
See Us Unite for Change
Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998), the founder of Care.com and TAAF board member, is an executive producer of the event. “Not only are business leaders, activists and talent coming together to support this cause, but we have networks and media...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
activist Christopher Reeve, previously had worked in strategy, marketing, and management with several firms that were involved in IT, health care, and life sciences. “In the business world, a lot of what I did was getting people to work...
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- Portrait Project
Aduke Thelwell
activist she had pictured, and my current beliefs would clash with her oversimplified teenage presumptions. Still, I know she would recognize our shared desire to change the role of business in society and she would appreciate that I am...
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- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
School Supplement 408-116 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408116 Opportunity Partners Harvard Business School Case 208-097 Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing hedge fund and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the...
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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity
chart a course toward a digital world that works for everyone. Our 10-episode listening tour brings scholars, practitioners, and activists into conversation about disparities in technology and the tech sector. The articles below share the...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
departments—with the goal of improving the health of honey bees in general and especially in production agriculture. Building trust is crucial to the relationships CollaborateUp fosters. Activists fear business executives will take...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
to publish underground publications throughout the Soviet bloc. As Bronisław Komorowski, a fellow activist who went on to serve as Poland’s president from 2010 to 2015, explains through a translator: “For my father and his generation—the...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.” Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through the Mud or in the Boardroom: Examining View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.” Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many View Details