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- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
multiplies the gifts’ impact. The Reed Foundation launched the Big Give in 2007, and since then, it has raised nearly £200 million for 10,000 charities that address a range of causes, from climate change and View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team’s members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team delivered the bad news that the technology wasn’t going to pan out. But they then...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, which won the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book on International Relations in 1998. Inspired by South...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
consumers in seeking care providers, how consumers make decisions about health care, the system-wide effects of increased consumer choice in health care, and the important...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
At HBS, I actively engaged in building the Africa Business Club and ramping up the Social Enterprise Initiative. This period really shaped my career focus and propelled my desire to return to Nigeria. Over...
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- 19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers
Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) was living in London and working in finance when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in her...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
wanted to make our time in Africa an adventure. We wanted to explore. We wanted to experience the idiosyncrasies of the local environment and culture. So we did.” —Rick Walleigh (MBA 1974) on his late career...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
the courage to reinvent yourself, not hold on to the past, and to act swiftly.” Proudly noting that corporate responsibility has always been integral to Avon’s identity, Jung stated that the company has raised over $450 million in the...
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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
camp in Uganda, and you heard a woman's song. Heaney: I was over in Africa doing some work, and in Africa, many of the organizations need very...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
us for years—even before we raised any money—in part because Jana Care is a very mission-driven company. That was an important lesson for us: Money is not the only motivating factor in a small company. If...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture Contest. Clubs View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
close contact with her mentor over the years. Speaking to Ramalingam on the phone one day, she noticed he had developed a cough and urged him to see a doctor. That visit led to a diagnosis of the cancer that would ultimately take his...
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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Africa to the HBS professors who are leading work related to the continent, and to share with them the lessons that Africa has for the rest of the world. Asia-Pacific Research Center—The Asia-Pacific...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
mobile application. We currently offer destination information on Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, and London on the mobile app and hope to cover as many as 150 places. Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Jana Care — SEF 2012 honoree Jana View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Threat in Africa by James M. Hawes (MBA 1971) and Mary Ann Koenig Skyhorse Publishing Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
problems during rollout. What I love about working in Africa is that I am constantly reminded that I don’t know what I don’t know, and that with every project there is something more to learn, a new...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
mothers who were employed tend to be more successful in the workplace than those raised by mothers who weren’t employed. Men whose mothers were employed spend more time caring for family members. “There’s a...
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- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
“Ninety-one percent of the people who go through our program say they have an easier time in their life conquering life’s other challenges,” he says. Callahan was 41 when he took over Sail to Prevail in...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural economic development View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
cohort of Global Citizen Year fellows, and she joined us. She ended up spending a year living in a community in Senegal, and she’ll now describe, 10 years out, how it was the experience of staying longer and...
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