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09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

Leading People debuted in July 2020, and Leading Learning will launch in July 2021. The program was inspired by findings from an HBS alumni survey indicating that alumni care deeply about public education. The survey inspired HBS senior... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

board examinations. Out of 30 students, 3 had failed. The memory of one of them, Akash, still haunts me today. The failure that day wasn’t just Akash’s. For 10 years, we had promised his poor parents that if they sent Akash to school, he... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2020
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Righting the Ship

Fourth, Shackleton made his men believe that they could do it, that they could all get back to safety alive. How did he do this, create such self-belief in his team and thus make them part of the solution? Partly by his showing up every View Details

08 Sep 2016
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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 lot of parental guilt about... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

28 Apr 2021
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Michael Collins, ‘Third Man’ of the Moon Landing, Dies at 90

their exploration. As he recalled in an Atlantic article from 2019—the 50th anniversary of the mission—he circled the moon for a day after dropping off Armstrong and Aldrin, admiring the views. “But for Collins, the finest sight was the... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

09 Mar 2021
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Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing inequities in education. BRIDGING THE GAP Some of the best moments of my day are when I’m talking to students and hearing about their experiences, but what drives me to do this... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist

meaning they want to spend less. Democrats say they’re against the deficit, meaning they want to tax more. And neither one cares a whit about the deficit nor should they. It’s the size of government that is the cost of government. So what... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time

results are the most important factor in evaluating performance, if someone leaves early or comes in late in order to take care of a family matter, it's a non-issue—as long as that person is getting their work done and achieving good... View Details

Keywords: Time management

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her... View Details

17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

watched, and if anything happened to them, if they showed up that day with bruises, the world would know about it. So there was an aspect of helping with the legal defense as much as we could, providing support and View Details

26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

ability to care about other people and treat them well. Plenty of people are smart enough to chart a new course and know a good business strategy from a bad one. We can’t forget that the authenticity and credibility of leaders is more... View Details

24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

you don't really care that much. But then when you see that people might react to you differently, it absolutely starts affecting you on a subconscious level. And I honestly think that language barriers are a huge reason why people from... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs. And he’s watched many people scale walls, break gates, evade dogs, and leave with your AmEx number. “The only reason we don’t... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

03 Jan 2018
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Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room

of family members, taking care of bills, managing personal relationships, balancing work-life with family. You've got a lot of players who are married, that have children. And spend a lot of time away from their children, and oftentimes... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games

enjoy any of the Games once they started? I attended the opening and closing ceremonies but none of the athletic competitions. I was at the Operations Center all day and spent nights in my office. But anytime of View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley. “When you’re starting a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

children feeling every skinned knee and caring so much about their well-being. Our family found our way through it. I believe it is important to talk about these things. Back to top H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933) Posthumous award HBS... View Details

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