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01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

children around the world. That volunteer work evolved into a full-time position: From 2000 to 2005, D’Avella worked in the organization’s offices in Virginia, Rome, and London to support its missions in various countries and to build its... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

that engineering was trying to keep up with. Believing there were other markets in which these technologies could be profitably leveraged, Teradyne's chairman, Alex d'Arbeloff, created a new subsidiary called Aurora, whose sole mission... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

line impact fund that was launched in 2016.” Gandhi: “I am a music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the... View Details

06 Jan 2021
News

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

I'm thinking about whether it is virtual teaching, remote working, hybrid classrooms, welcoming students back to campus, on every one of those occasions, our community has responded magnificently. It is this community and its commitment to do whatever it takes to... View Details

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a... View Details

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

success in a broad array of projects, such as managing 10 brands and 26 shops across different categories, he also felt the need to reinvent his core confectionery business since not all stores of all his brands were thriving as he had wished. Equally central to the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

the researchers recently wrote in a GfK Marketing Intelligence Review article called "Beyond Bedlam: How Consumers and Brands Alike Are Playing the Web." In the last decade, marketers have used digital media in different ways. First, many brands made it their View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

mission no longer have to be at odds with each other! There is no blueprint on how to do this, thereby requiring experimentation. So take the same approach with your career: pick an area that interests you and pursue something that is... View Details

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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

board member, a company whose mission is to safeguard the world’s blood supply, she says, “ We all have blood running through our veins. I’m going to represent all of the people who rely on our products and services.” Navigating changing... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states that the profit incentive alone,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 2005
News

Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

multiple stakeholders, including funders, boards, and clients—all while staying true to a core mission and values. In today's climate of scarce economic resources, the pressure for nonprofits to show quantifiable results is greater than... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

If you expect people to perform," he asserts, "you must give them the best tools with which to perform." Mission Possible In a slower-moving, more predictable environment, the CEO could effectively act as the company's chief strategist.... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

of the press in a democracy. And next month sees the release of First Man, starring Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong. Singer says the film, based on the biography by James R. Hansen, depicts the country’s collective mission to put... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

January 2025
Case

A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber

In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details

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23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

are working on the resulting potential breakthrough ideas. In this article, we describe how leaders of Harvard Catalyst, an organization whose mission is to drive therapies from the lab to patients' bedsides faster and to do so by working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2025
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

humility, for humanity as the human dimensions that bring to life our mission of “ educating leaders who make a difference in the world. ” “ Educating leaders ” requires humility : we cannot educate unless you have a learning mindset, and... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

devising solutions to society’s most urgent problems. When I talk about leadership generally, I am talking about you specifically. I have great optimism for the ways in which you will embody our mission as leaders who make a difference in... View Details

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