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- 15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project
loved it so much they encouraged them to do it again the next year, and the next, and the next. And that's how Burning Man started. We burn the man because it's a symbol of life, and how short it is, and how ephemeral it is. And we spend...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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@Soldiers Field
the piece, they are encouraged to contemplate what it means to inhabit their own speech and beliefs.” The installations will be on view until April 2017. Nearly 500 students from more than 20 countries gathered in May for HBX ConneXt,...
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- 22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
being LGBTQ+ is not necessarily something they all understand, so when you're in a group specifically made up of people who are LGBTQ+, then immediately that issue doesn't exist." Regarding discussion topics, Donaher explains that forum protocols View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
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The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
apply so that more will be admitted, above the 25 to 30 percent that typically are found in an entering MBA class. Bulletin: Besides women, who else would you encourage to apply to HBS? Fadule: Put simply, we want smart people with the...
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- 25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
And since then, we’ve had alumni reach out, offering to make introductions or advise us. It’s been super fun.” Wood says the competition offers so many benefits for founders and encourages fellow entrepreneurs to give it a go. “If you...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
been so much at the heart of the School throughout our existence, is alive and well. And I’m encouraging that as much as anything else. What value does FIELD add to the first-year students’ experience? We all agreed that there were three...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s...
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- 16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account
returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging companies to be leaders on issues from...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Business as a Force for Good
As director of B Lab, the standards organization for certified B corporations, Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) encourages companies around the world to be a force for good. By promoting policies that benefit their employees, their...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and continued research, will "in a small...
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Susan Young
- 29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account
something counterintuitive to those outside the sector: They used FedEx stock to encourage change. Slowly, starting in 2009, through shareholder proposals, investor statements, and presentations at FedEx annual meetings, the group...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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A Message from Dean Clark
structures in lesser developed countries, multinational joint ventures, and product development. Encouraged by these efforts, we are looking forward in the near future to the opening of a center in Latin America that will broaden our...
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- 09 Jul 2024
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On Balance
companies that want to perform a gender-pay-gap audit and a campaign to encourage men to take parental leave, “because we know that changes the dynamic of who does what in the home, in terms of unpaid labor, and facilitates women...
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- 07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
Today the foundation remains focused on education—it’s “an old message but it’s still the right message,” Smyth concludes—but also has expanded into patient support and research, becoming the biggest nongovernmental funder, and into advocacy. With View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
impact of a robust get out the vote effort. The trio visited the country multiple times to develop and roll out a text message campaign to encourage voting, which ultimately reached 2 million—about 40 percent—of Kenya’s registered voters....
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2002
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Serving through TechnoServe
encourages its clients to “look at production as a business and figure out what their competitive advantage is,” Tierney explains. He has led efforts to modernize the organization, which was founded in 1968 and is based in Connecticut....
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
technology to become available for laboratory use. He calls for new approaches to research and funding to encourage a tighter, more collaborative coupling of engineering and biology. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in...
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- 07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future
undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or running small companies but...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
heartfelt stories to inspire and encourage you. Faculty Books Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life By Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press Four out of five...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Mar 2019
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Mission Critical
donation and encouraged people to sign up. We have national registries where you can sign up. “I came to the GMP program in 2013. I was, at that point, wanting to move into executive leadership, and I knew that I needed to have a...
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