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- 11 Mar 2020
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America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses
iStock iStock The Wall Street Journal had a story this week on the growing trend of couples who meet while at business school. The piece argues that the trend is due in part to growing gender parity at business schools, noting that women represented less than 30% of...
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- 27 Jan 2023
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Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty to fill the role until a...
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Maureen Harmon
- 10 Jul 2024
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Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally...
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Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
solution was the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a nonprofit spun out of City Hall that is focused on turning around 22 of the district's lowest-performing schools. Serving close to 16,000 students, the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Ears to the Ground
Working with Clark on the ShotSpotter partnership with GE: Jaime Irick (MBA 2003), chief commercial officer of Current, GE’s lighting and energy division. Working with Clark on the ShotSpotter partnership...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A champion for First Nations
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, Favel led the development of two national firsts for Canada: the First Nations Bank of Canada and the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority. In addition to serving as chancellor of the university, he is executive chairman of...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story
reach a lot of people that way.” The alternative might be less targeted initially but with bigger potential in the long term: pursuing partnerships or affiliate programs with larger entities that already sell to families, like the AARP....
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Flight Path
Series B financing, led by Allianz, Sky, Liberty Media, Lux Capital, and World Wrestling Entertainment, in addition to partnerships with Swatch and FORTO Coffee Shots. July 2017 The hand-built DRL RacerX achieves a Guinness World Record...
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Julia Hanna
- 13 Jul 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
slow, I Create recently set up a business incubation center in partnership with a division of the Federal Ministry of Entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, the jobs situation in India remains dire, with 17.8 million of the nation’s 1.34 billion...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
of the solution for global conservation and natural-resource management. “We will not succeed in our work unless we encourage business leaders to understand the degree to which their businesses depend on the planet,” he says. Roberts's strategy has been to forge View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
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The Atlantic Finds a New Home
right.” The Emerson Collective engages in cross-sector partnerships that focus on education, immigration reform, the environment, and social justice initiatives. Bradley has told the story of transforming a magazine (purchased from Mort...
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- 27 Oct 2016
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Pathfinder
adapt to a lower growth environment and still perform well, to improve productivity, to take on the digital challenges in their specific business and industry, and to build and strengthen their organizations.” Doing that work requires a View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Embracing Digital Transformation
digital age, enable more meaningful connections with and among alumni, and create data-driven partnerships that benefit business and society. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund from alumni advance the mission of the School by providing vital...
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- 16 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning
building partnerships with Boston public schools to bring students in grades five through eight out to the island for hands-on science education,” Pearson notes. The goal is a sequential, four-year curriculum that is intended to develop...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
lands with important conservation attributes, usually in partnership with regional and national land trusts and conservation organizations. Through the conservation transactions we structure, the public gets the assurance that the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
You’re writing fresh material for a paperback edition of The Partnership that’s coming out in the fall. What’s new that you’re focusing on? First and most important, the larger business environment in 2008–2009 has been completely...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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A model of service
Through 20 years spent as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen in New York City, Ashley Garrett (MBA 1987) transformed volunteer work into an educational experience for students. At All Souls, a feeding program for some of the city's neediest families, she created a...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
companies like State Street and Google, who see their partnership with Year Up as good business, not philanthropy. Today, 85 percent of more than 5,200 Year Up graduates are employed or attend college within four months of completing the...
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- 01 Aug 2019
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Investing for Good
“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital—public capital, private capital—in service of society. The tool that we are most proud of is the social impact bond, which is essentially a public-private partnership that brings...
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