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- 08 Feb 2017
- News
In Trump’s America, the Price of Speech and Silence
- 12 Feb 2018
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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously
- 11 Jan 2022
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School for Scaling Impact: Starting Harvard’s ALI ‘22
- 27 Mar 2018
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Why CEOs Are Taking a Stand
- 04 May 2017
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The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
- 03 Mar 2015
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Corporate Governance 2.0
- 20 Sep 2017
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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy
1971, feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem spoke to the Harvard Business Women (today’s Women’s Student Association). Boxing champion Muhammad Ali electrified a packed auditorium when he addressed the Harvard College Class of...
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Linda Kush
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
Photography by Robert Schoen Ipsita Dasgupta is truly a citizen of the world. The Calcutta native speaks six languages and has lived in Sudan, Cairo, Jakarta, and Manhattan, thanks in part to her father's peripatetic career as a senior executive for Energizer. Her...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Cofounder and activist in residence, B Lab UK Kim Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) Global Ambassador, B Lab and Head of Impact, B Lab US & Canada Business as a Tool for Activism BIO BIO As the recent IPCC report made clear, this is a “Code Red”...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
"the hugging preacher," Coverdale "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." Known fondly as "the hugging preacher," Coverdale "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." Through his work as a community activist...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
that patients may feel are necessary; and squeezing down compensation for talented physicians and hospitals. Indeed, activist American consumers even rebel against perfectly rational HMO tactics like reducing hospital lengths of stay....
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
Federation of America Award for Media Service. His most recent book,My Vast Fortune, due out this month, is a memoir that recalls some of his greatest adventures and misadventures with money. It includes accounts of another facet of Tobias, his View Details
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Once a Fulbright…
dream come true for a young girl who learned early to listen to my instincts — to pursue the seemingly impossible.” Active on several boards and a frequent speaker on corporate governance, Owades, who also founded Gardener’s Eden (later sold to Williams-Sonoma), was...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
if an NGO or activist organization like Greenpeace wants to reward the companies that contribute to the greater good, it won’t know how to ‘read’ this company,” he observes. “To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things...
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