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- 15 Sep 2020
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Lifting Fallen Families
fundraising with individuals and large corporate partners, and partnerships with Veterans Affairs, the nonprofit continues to see increases in its gifts to families and the number of people the organization is able to find and assist. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Building Your Own Dream Team
This era of social networking would surely have been invented by Keith Ferrazzi (MBA ’92) had it not sprouted on its own. Ferrazzi is well known as a professional networker in the best (or worst, depending on whom you’re talking to) HBS...
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- 26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty
who inspires people to reach their full potential. It was during one of these sessions—and just after I read How Will You Measure Your Life? by Professor Clay Christensen—that I had the idea to start a nonprofit whose mission is social...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
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Fred Newman
tour promoting his first book, MouthSounds: How to Whistle, Pop, Click, and Honk Your Way to Social Success, the same fly imitation landed Newman a job as the host of Nickelodeon’s teen talk show Livewire. Since then he has hosted The...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Plugged In
money. That won't work for the ELR. "The consumer we're targeting is not that price conscious," notes Camargo, adding that it's more of an emotional purchase. "When they drive a vehicle, they want it to be a statement about...
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- 27 Mar 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise
Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape young girls?” and “Why don’t they...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
professors’ firsthand observations of the crisis helped inform the classroom conversations. “We discussed what it actually means to be a refugee,” says Fabbe. Trumbull adds, “Really understanding the political and social turmoil...
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- 29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
themselves with social causes or wish to bring about positive change in the world. Beyond the income these artists are receiving, the confidence and hope it instills within them touches every part of their lives. A lot of these artists...
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- 15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for...
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Maureen Harmon
- 20 Nov 2019
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Lifting Fallen Families
kind of personal support is a big part of our mission.” Seven of the organization’s current employees have benefited as students, just like Lemon. They are now in a unique position, observes Kim, to provide not only financial support but also offer View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas
program started by teaching sailing skills to children with spinal cord injuries, it now serves children and adults with a variety of physical and emotional challenges as well as cancer patients and veterans. “I thought the best path to...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
as far as the importance of an orchestra in a community.” “We learned a lesson from that,” says Long. “You can’t just sit in your castle downtown.” Before the Nashville show, Prieto delivered a fiery, emotional backstage address to the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was...
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- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
business expertise, women also bring a very different set of emotional skills. Stewart points to studies that have found that women directors facilitate the discussion of difficult issues by forcing boards to confront the tough questions....
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
learning and better leverage the skills of teachers and other adults in schools to provide coaching, targeted teaching, and social and emotional development support. The current situation has highlighted...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that information. Techniques included...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line
of the most difficult things about this job has been managing the ongoing emotional trauma of those members who have stayed on," says Bothwick. "This is not a typical organizational restructuring; this is a place where people lived what...
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- 17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
women leaders in the HBS alumni community with events, initiatives and social impact scholarships. So when Club President Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16) and Stark were planning events for 2021, they decided to organize something useful for...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
address topics like emotional coping skills, the food supply, and even one on Gospel music. “We want to lift each other up.” Virtual Alumni Forums Offer Deeper Connection in Unsettling Times For the more than 500 alumni participating in...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation...
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