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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
of all Black engineers attended an HBCU. There's 101 HBCUs today, and there's 300,000 students attending HBCUs, 70 percent of those students receive Pell Grants, which is for people who come from households with $25,000 or less of annual income compared to 30% of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
Education, a nonprofit that provides grants to support innovative, evidence-based practices in K–12 education. Because problems such as homelessness and underperforming schools have multiple causes, Shumway stresses that solving them... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
the design specifications and granted us the rights to produce it. So with very little infrastructure in the medical-technology industry in Egypt, a consortium was formed—our business school association, a group of scholars, and an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
National Science Foundation grant to implement an ambitious inquiry-based science curriculum.” Highest and Best Use With that synergy as a starting point, since 2009, Thompson Island’s Connections program and the science department of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
generally granted to those who do their homework, though luck still plays a major part." "Sometimes God will fool you," agrees James Hackett. "You'll think you have something, and the readings confirm it, but when you drill down it's... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
around communication? For example, how do we stay in touch for formal and informal contact? How do you ensure that everyone is included in work conversations, even if they’re not physically present? The things that we took for granted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
granted in the United States that there are people you can turn to for advice about entrepreneurship,” says Cindy Ko, vice president of international expansion at Endeavor, a nonprofit economic-development organization based in New York.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
the Feds to grant us a waiver to restructure Medicaid so that we could expand its coverage, increase help for children, and, most innovatively, subsidize premiums for folks who needed help. That waiver was crucial; Governor Romney had to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
together, and I took for granted some of the stuff that he simply didn’t know because he’d never been taught it. There’s so much that the education system does not teach about American history in an inclusive way, so it was challenging... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Worcester, Brockton Interfaith Community, Elevated Thought in Lawrence, as well as statewide initiatives, such as Data for Black Lives, EdLaw Project, and Lawyers for Civil Rights. Grant decisions are made by representatives from the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
tremendous value. He cites a number of innovators, executives, artists, academics, teachers, and role models who embody his vision of goodness. Jumping Ship: From the Heart of Corporate Australia to the World of Social Investment by Michael Traill (MBA 1987) (Hardie... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
and given out grants — I wanted to add something new to my skill set," says the Texas native. As an intern at The Home for Little Wanderers (HLW), a New England agency that serves at-risk children, their families, and communities, Weenick... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
devices, K-12 education, and lost income. By May 1, they had more than 18,000 users across all 50 states and were deploying $11,000 monthly in granted and donated ad spend. Working with several Harvard groups (including alumni), Community... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
Business School quite closely, and I’m struck by the things that we take for granted that were once considered great innovations. The case method, for example, wasn’t with us from the day Harvard Business School was founded. It took 20... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
extensive involvement with a San Diego-based organization that develops aid programs for the poor in Mexico, and the establishment of a family foundation that gives grants in the areas of poverty, education, and religion. "There came a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
fellow, Chan was at first taken aback by the amount of influence and responsibility he was granted from the start. “One day, the Mayor walked by my cube and said ‘I think we should do something on food,’” says Chan. “With that one-line... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
her recent appointment as director of the prestigious Univer-sity of Chicago Press. She has leveraged a Mellon Foundation grant to set up a digital printing facility and BiblioVault electronic repository that will enhance access to the... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
(MBA 2001), managing director at Bain Capital, and Corey Thomas (MBA 2002), chairman and CEO of Rapid7, are among the 19 Black and brown business leaders in Boston who created the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund. The fund will be used to issue... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
wished that his fellow students would give voice in class to the ethical concerns they preferred to convey to him in private. As he would later write of his MBA experience, “I stuck to the role I had been granted as a liberal bellwether,... View Details