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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace recently asked Koehn what prompted her to author... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
How-To Book for General Managers
Effective implementation often comes down to how well executives design, direct, and influence their organization's critical processes. HBS professor David Garvin's new book, General Management: Processes and Action (McGraw-Hill), provides a powerful View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Making Democracy Work
A democratically elected government is essential to free-market capitalism—a strong democracy provides the foundation necessary for capitalism to benefit all, rather than only a few. Today, democracy is in decline around the world, and... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
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Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism
person," as reported by CBS News. The campaign was launched through Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism and will feature public service television advertisements as well as a social media campaign. Kraft told the Associated Press... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- News
Jeremy Grantham on the Battle to Save Society from Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Winning’
own environmental foundation and currently directs half of his foundation’s grants to “communications and research into the psychology of denial” to help improve messaging. Part of that messaging, the article notes, includes localizing... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2020
- News
Managing Happiness (Even in a Pandemic)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
yourself wanting to learn more and spend more time? At an early, highly personal phase like this, the best learning will be experimental, not analytical. For personal giving, do you favor a community foundation (advised giving fund) or... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A passion for the sea doubles the percent of ocean set aside for conservation
population will expand by 150 percent. Recently, the Bertarelli Foundation also established a reserve around Belize's Turneffe Atoll. It is the world’s second-largest coral reef with more than 500 species of fish. “To be successful, you... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
Two highly visible projects took shape on campus this past summer - one forward looking and one aimed at preserving a historic campus landmark. The first is the Spangler Center, the new campus center that is rapidly rising from its recently dug View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
the private individuals behind the more public personae. For complete profiles, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/awards/. Photos by Webb Chappell Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA ’85) Founder and CEO Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Multiple Myeloma... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
Richard H. K. Vietor, Baker Foundation Professor, is an expert on how nations compete—and he’s worried about the United States. Vietor focuses on government policies, laws, and other actions that affect competitiveness, defined as the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
and foundations as well as individual donors, serves 1,000 people a year. “In life it’s hard to achieve a goal that’s so big, by yourself,” he says. “You bring people together with similar disabilities and they will figure out how to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. The MMRF built the first multi-center myeloma tissue bank, became the first to sequence the myeloma genome, and launched the MMRF CoMMpass Study to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ideas against AIDS
Viravaidya, aka “Mr. Condom,” has been battling AIDS for three decades and recently was awarded $1 million by the Gates Foundation for his work. As a visiting scholar at Harvard in the late 1980s, Viravaidya was frustrated by academia’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
is a certified yoga instructor, has created a foundation to help spread yoga teaching and practice throughout society, including among at-risk youth. Said Hanna, “I wanted to build a brand that inspires people to be the best versions of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
In a recent post for HBS Working Knowledge, Howard Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus, and Shirley Spence, writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, detail how organizations led by HBS alumni are responding to the pandemic. Part of a research series... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture