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- 17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
their own community or their own family member, and then they will say to them, you know, we are your world now. You can never go home. They will kill you. And so these songs worked against that, but it was important that they were...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish that, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of CO2 removed each year through various mitigation strategies,...
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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
- 24 Sep 2020
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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
- 28 May 2019
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Action Plan: Border Crossing
“Just hearing about those trips and looking at her photos made the world feel a bit more accessible,” says Rawdon, who tested the waters by traveling to Paris with her high school French class. That experience launched a lifetime passion...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together academics and pharma/biotech...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for whom college is far from a given....
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Non-fiction The Most Important Things I Know: 55 Handwritten Ideas from People Who Changed the World by Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) Lorne Adrain A best-of collection drawn from Adrain’s previous books, this edition contains notes from Buzz...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
community - there are over 64,000 graduates of the School's MBA and executive education programs all over the world - is a significant challenge. Every two months, in addition to the most impressive Class Notes section of any alumni...
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- 30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas
day of my life, that would be utopia.” It’s a world Callahan had never even imagined for himself when he took his first recreational sail with a friend, in 1994. But he fell in love instantly with ocean-based activities, and he discovered...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
ever dreamed that frequentflier miles would become a multibillion-dollar source of incremental airline revenue," he notes. In 1982, Brierley was named vice president of sales and advertising for Pan American World Airways, where he...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
10.” In Peru, Anglo American recently reached agreement with local communities and government to establish a development fund and water infrastructure as part of the company’s Quellaveco copper mine project. This was achieved through a...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
thought this would become my life's work," remarked Aossey, whose organization, formed in response to the Soviet invasion, trains medical personnel around the world in order to create a sustainable health-care system. "The attacks on...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
one-story former garage on Grand Street in Soho that would be the main home of Deitch Projects for fifteen years. A Photographic Odyssey: Around the World with Alexander W. Dreyfoos by Alexander W. Dreyfoos (MBA 1958) (Cultural Council of...
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- 22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women
company, and location into a database and shared it with all the women. It was a valuable resource, but a database alone wouldn’t be enough, Hagemann reasoned. “If we launched a formal network,” she told Pent, “I think we could change the View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
are the top two or three things you tell them? MDP: We think there are three things that groups have to get right. So the first is, the state has to develop a policy that is good for the employer. In this case, that's school districts allowing them to access the View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
intentions and a sense of loyalty to a local organization. As for the foundations that distributed billions to nonprofits, they rarely held their beneficiaries accountable for results. Just as result-driven thinking entered the business View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World War almost three years earlier;...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall
abandoned state hospital site in the city's Mattapan neighborhood. I became involved in what were for me new aspects of conservation, education, and state and local politics. Massachusetts is a world away from Central America, but the...
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