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- 23 Sep 2021
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Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external impacts on society and the...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has...
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 Nov 2014
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Giving women more control over their biological clocks
Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014)
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Giving back makes a community stronger
Felicia Lipson (AB 1984, MBA 1988), marketing consultant, talks about giving back to her community and working with other women in business and politics. (Published April 2014)
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- 22 Mar 2011
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The Case for Employee-Owned Companies
- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
“Contact tracing is a 500-year-old solution. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR MITCHELL WEISS “Contact tracing...
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- 19 May 2016
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Creating a Public Greenway in Northern California’s Scenic Wine Country
Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) is a man on the move as founder and chair of the Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition, a 47-mile bike and pedestrian route that will connect the entire region by 2020. “It’s very psychically rewarding. The trail will be there for 100 years,” says...
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- 01 Nov 2018
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The Power of Civility
It's a very self-centered world these days, and that does worry me about our future as a civilization. “One of the things that my parents taught me when I was a kid was that we need to take responsibility for our own actions, and we can't blame others for what happens...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Management, is now at work on a guide to life at home. She invites HBS advice givers or seekers to visit her Web site at www.theexpertsguideto.com. Is there less intergenerational teaching in society today? Yes. Many of the topics in The...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the...
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- 02 Nov 2010
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Commanding Officers
HBS learning environment and society beyond. It’s no wonder that when the incoming gets heavy in business, folks are grateful to have an HBS graduate and veteran alongside them in their foxhole.
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
percent serve on an average of 2.3 boards of for-profit companies where they are not currently employed. And 35 percent show their broader commitment to society by serving on an average of 2 nonprofit boards. Friendships made at HBS...
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- 08 Mar 2018
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HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Americans have had on the School, the business world, and society at large. The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has partnered with the AASU and the HBS Leadership Initiative to produce five core initiatives for AASU50: a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for which we don’t have reliable numbers. You say that this market is driven by such deep-seated human feelings that banning it outright would be futile. Yet obviously some rules are needed. We need to look at this area as objectively as possible and then decide where...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism
Photo courtesy New England Patriots Photo courtesy New England Patriots New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) launched a $25 million "Stand Up to Jewish Hate" campaign last week, which is "aiming to raise awareness nationwide about soaring incidents of...
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- 25 Apr 2016
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Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a foundation for children in pre-K,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Building businesses that benefit a community as well as the bottom line
Richard Sussman (GMP 12, 2012) is using his work in private equity to guide start-up firms toward benefiting others as they grow their businesses (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Mar 2005
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One-on-One with Edwin Reed
Reed Edwin C. Reed (MBA ’79) spends Saturdays with his family, but on Sundays, you’ll always find him at the office. Reed is the CFO of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens — a powerhouse religious institution and one of the nation’s leading...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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What Fellowships Make Possible
the salary, sector, or location. The impact of the fellowship program is hard to overstate. In addition to the significant benefits to the recipients themselves, there are countless indirect beneficiaries, including other HBS students, the faculty, Harvard, the...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
senior associate dean for research. “That’s the promise of HBS. The world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex and don’t lend themselves to one type of research. Our faculty employ constantly evolving methodologies to address topics of critical importance.” The...
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