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- 01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Southern California (USC) changed Velasquez’s trajectory, making it possible for him to become the first person in his family to attend college. But that was just the initial step toward Velasquez’s ultimate goal: to become a doctor and create a more “accessible,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
says. “And in a system that requires low levels of taxation, free markets, and privatization of state assets, you have a paradox. The paradox is that the state is in less of a position to act. The state is no longer a redistributor of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
legs when struck by a motorist asleep at the wheel. “I’ve parlayed my misfortunes into my career,” she says, adding: “I believe there is a cosmic system that brings us adversity for a reason. When you’re given that message, you have to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To address View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
Because it’s a problem that we could actually solve right now! A statistic from a Washington, D.C., hospital network highlights the seriousness of the situation: Sixty percent of physicians’ time at that hospital system was spent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
to replicate office culture in the digital world, and the movement’s wider implications for how and where we organize ourselves. Prashanth, you said in a March announcement about Stack Overflow going all-remote that the most important factor was the View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
companies and nurtured numerous leading-edge products in a wide range of areas, including information technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. In achieving all that, it has also set the standard for integrity in every... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Bernardino, California. Here, McGee and Hsieh discuss the evolution of the case and the conversations it has inspired, as well as the changing dimensions of the economic systems in which tech companies operate. How did this case first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
masters. ... But as the military stalemate continued, the pressure on the president to seek settlement terms with the Confederacy increased. ...And the commander in chief began to waver. Perhaps, he told himself as he paced the White... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
insists, “it's theirs.” One opinion that was heard loud and clear during Schock's SA service was a call for a new prescription drug plan for HBS students. Schock was among student leaders who met with University health officials and the... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland himself who “in desperation”... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn from the military and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
wasn’t any heroics. My house was outside the Green Zone. Our family home had been taken over by the former regime and turned into a Baath Party military intelligence headquarters. When the regime fell, we took back our property. The place... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
business from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Grenoble in 1992. Following military service, he took a consulting position with Bossard Consultants, a Zurich, Switzerland-based firm that had him working with technology clients... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
feminism and activism of my first two albums. My first two albums definitely had more songs like “Young Indian” or “Future Is Female” or “Her,” which have sort of spoken or rapped lyrics, if you will, that directly combat things like patriarchal oppression, control,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
so that everybody feels like they have a role in making that vision come true. They also set up the systems and infrastructure for people to be effective within that organization, to collaborate and solve problems together and continually... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
serious belt tightening. Leaders of major companies looked around and had to make cuts based on keeping people and systems in place that were critical to the business. CFO? Have to have one of those. IT? Business can’t function without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
reinvesting in the underpinnings of our economy and laying the groundwork for long-term prosperity. That means investing in infrastructure, clean energy, and education. We need to address the health-care crisis and end the shame of tens of millions of Americans without... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
world needs principled leaders. Business has become one of the most dynamic forces in our society. If you look at what our graduates are asked to do, you will find them holding influential positions on the boards of major nonprofit and community organizations, whether... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
study, we looked at how gender-based assumptions in over 100 companies influenced issues such as career planning, goal setting, promotions, and raises. We examined the characteristics most frequently cited in performance management View Details