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- 30 Oct 2019
- News
Creating Agents of Change
poverty. “As we're investing in these children and youth, we're really investing in positive multiplier agents of change that go out and pay it forward in that community. And every time I spend time with... View Details
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FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
See Eligibility for details on loans, income and assets, and employment. What if I have access to another loan repayment assistance program? HBS requires that you participate in both programs if possible. This allows View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
sister. MY FIRST JOB was as a copyboy in the classified ad department. Our brand-new technology was 60 women on IBM Selectric typewriters. I would go around every few minutes to pick up their copy and take... View Details
- 08 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Getting Laid Off: An Opportunity for Reinvention
your pay or that your work product did not meet a certain threshold. I am slowly letting go of this weight and burden—and realize that it’s not personal. In fact, approximately 1 in 5 Americans have filed... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
of the things that come out as implications for that: If you have this dream of being able to go and make the mark on the world in this way, that’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
world, he said, “Stars aren't going to be tolerated anymore — the focus is on a solid system, teamwork, and values.” Immelt went on to describe GE as a meritocracy, noting, “You have to link View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. What do you think about the... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Portrait Project
Xiao Wang
I will make dreams come true. No, I cannot make you fly or find true love. But I can help with the goals that we set for ourselves every New Year's Day - that this is the year I will become fitter, feel more energized, and live a... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
and clothing, with almost half draining their savings to pay the bills, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Medical debt tends to be a more pervasive problem among those earning less than $40,000 per year and among Black and... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
“When Andreya started the project my initial reaction was, you’re going to find that everybody (wants to reduce their tax bill as much as possible)—and she didn’t. So I was... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
resonated with the community," says Jamil Ford of Mobilize Design and Architecture. And so as you go through the lobby, you can View Details
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
Hoffmann’s entrepreneurial juices. “Everything he says about start-ups and founders and the whole rollercoaster ride is completely accurate,“ Hoffmann said. “It is a risky but fun rollercoaster and if you are up for that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
value for patients, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. Porter recently talked about the book. The American model of health-care delivery is largely private and competitive. Yet costs are soaring, access is restricted, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention. "If employees View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
liability, but I have paid nonetheless. I believe that people who have money should pay some amount in taxes. We all have an obligation to our generation and the next to give some of our money back so that we can keep this country View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
the mass merchants have gone after the middle class, but as income bifurcation happens and the middle class tends to disappear, you don't have the disposable income to take advantage of. In just about any... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
face of it, it’s hard to understand the logic of earned income being taxed at about two and a half times the rate of a capital gain. My first thought was of the advice of certain commentators: if I didn’t think I was paying enough tax, I... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
situations that test both of these abilities every day. “I’ve always tried to take stock of what opportunities were present in my life, and that’s my style of running the business, too,” he explains. “There is no roadmap for how we’re View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
[resources and authority]—with the hope that the effects on both ends go away: Women won't see themselves as less entitled, and therefore aren't treated as less entitled. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace