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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Manby (MBA '85) Courtesy Joel Manby Web Extra Undercover Boss: Watch the Joel Manby Episode As I reached out to shut off my alarm at 3 a.m. — wake-up time for my first day as a street washer — I wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?”... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
research looking at poverty alleviation through foreign aid, and I wanted to further this research within the countries themselves," he says. In Liberia, he met with Sirleaf and her economic advisors, who discussed the pressures to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
creating for the corporation—which was actually very abstract and difficult to do. I left the for-profit sector in 1992 and spent some time involved with different nonprofits, getting a contextual view of what was possible. That led to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
report from the Global Center on Adaptation suggests that more than $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and climate stresses. Yet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
operational underperformance. We transformed it into a service operating according to world-class standards. At the time you took over, 63 percent of Metro Manila’s water was either lost or stolen. Did you have a hard View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
in places with greater poverty and lower levels of economic development. Violence is higher in locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests. We find weaker evidence that caste divisions in society are correlated with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
ago as Apax’s chairman to devote all his time to trying to improve the lives of the disadvantaged in Britain and the Middle East. “When I graduated from Oxford, I was full of the idealism that was prevalent at universities in the 1960s,”... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
engineer for Boeing. At that time there were rows and rows of engineers sitting at desks, as far as you could see — it looked like an assembly line. After six months or so, I decided I didn't want to be one of those guys, I wanted to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Leadership Courage: Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice By Kirk Kirlin (MBA 1979) Authors Place Press In a time when timidity and disquiet seem epidemic in both American and American Church culture, author Kirk Kirlin offers nine... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
for high school followed by a summer in Spain. By her senior year of high school, the family had moved again, this time to Vancouver, Canada. It was the fourteenth school of her youth. That nomadic spirit instilled in Leger an interest in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
stirred in the country’s public opinion. Financial markets and bookmakers seem to indicate that Remain is the more likely outcome, but the very last poll of polls by the Financial Times pointed to a chilling neck-to-neck between the two... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s (HSBC) investment banking and securities business in India. She was selected as one of 2002’s fifteen emerging “Global Influentials” by Time magazine; in 2000, Fortune magazine named her the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
it. This is a tumultuous time, but all times are pretty tumultuous, just in different ways. Nonprofits are always embedded in an environment of rapidly evolving challenges and opportunities. So they always need to be adaptive. First and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
memorable—distinguished by some special aspect of their time here on campus. When I consider you, the Class of 2024, I will remember your efforts to sustain community and build understanding at a very difficult View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
poor communities was transformational for Rodríguez: “I made a decision that I didn’t want to be a spectator to poverty anymore.”) The IPO was a high-profile demonstration of the duo’s long-held vision. “It showed us that mainstream... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, and artemisinin-based combination therapy. We discuss the timing and regional coverage of the program and critically review the available health and program rollout data. To estimate the health benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
are times when I’m hankering for nonfiction, either a biography or something topical, such as Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe’s page-turner history of the Sackler family that seems to have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
to recognize responsibility.” A Conflicted Warrior Only weeks after being named Ford president, McNamara was tapped by the newly elected Kennedy administration to be Secretary of Defense. The early years at the Pentagon were among the best of his career: It was a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons