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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Buckley (Profile Books) Beginning in the mid-1990s, Sabis, a private, for-profit education provider, transformed the Alfred Glickman School from a failing school in one of America’s most violent cities into a silver medalist in U.S. News & View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
likely change and then all of us will be thinking about water a lot. Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) knows that, and the company she founded, Artemis Water Strategy, is dedicated to finding technologies for companies and governments around the View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
supplies, food, and other essential commodities. They’re doing everything from providing critical funding to donating space for medical services, as the ICCP Group did when it offered its property, the World...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
its own members to fund future expansion. What’s in Assistant Professor Uma Karmarkar’s grocery bags? It may depend on if she’s carrying reusuable bags. In a series of experiments, Karmarkar and a fellow researcher found that when...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
assistant, Cynthia Liggon, puts it, "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." "I'm in the hope business," affirms Coverdale, who himself rose from the poor, rough-and-tumble world of the South Bronx as a youth to become one...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2001
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Porter Appointed to University Professorship
His books can be found on the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and strategy in the expanding global...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project The funding mechanisms...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
global community, one that represents and respects the best of our collective backgrounds and traditions and that is a living example of how people from all over the world can come together around a set of common values, and though not...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
stratified society—it's not the result of three years of the current administration. It really is something that has been building over years. Between World War II and the 1970s, we had boom-time years. We had a very inclusive capitalist...
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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Clean Air Act was one of the first and most influential federal environmental laws—and many in the business community saw benefits from a national strategy to combat pollution. Prof. Michael Toffel Prof. Michael Toffel Now, as the world...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
send e-mail to the author: Garry Emmons photos by AP/Wide World September 11, 2001, was a day that New Yorkers will never forget, particularly those who live and work in Lower Manhattan, the city’s business and financial center. With the...
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- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is...
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Jennifer Myers
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a virus the company had not seen before and start the timer. Bancel was eager for the chance to show off the company’s agility. The organizations settled on the spring of 2020 for this “outbreak”; the first quarter of the year was just too busy. The whole View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library | Bloomberg Center: According to Forbes, the healthcare industry is “increasingly recognizing the need to better serve women,” with digital women’s health plays (Femtech) receiving over $1 billion in View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill
when I realized he was someone I could always count on," she recalls. Gehrke was back in the corporate world working for AT&T when their son Luke was born in 1984. Her work with his elementary school parents' association led to her...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
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The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
long the centerpiece of the HCA's activities. The prestigious scholarship, founded by former HCA president and current World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59), awards U.S.$50,000 to students bound for any Harvard graduate...
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- 08 Jan 2016
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Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious...
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