Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Aug 2015
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Helping Women Executives Return to Work

ladder by moving from employer to employer every couple years,” she says. “They’re not going to take the information and go off and start their own business. They’re committed to the organization they’re working for and they are really motivated to continue with their... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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A model of service

Through 20 years spent as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen in New York City, Ashley Garrett (MBA 1987) transformed volunteer work into an educational experience for students. At All Souls, a feeding program for some of the city's... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Dreaming big for Africa’s future

and power generation. Helios also annually contributes a fixed percentage of its gross fee income to nonprofit groups and programs in Africa that improve access to education and health care for the underprivileged. Lawani credits HBS for... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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A social enterprise visionary

Believing that there was a pressing need for management education that would prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector, the late Wall Street executive John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) inspired and supported the creation of the Social... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

skill transfer—the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise. Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game By Andrew Binns, Charles A. O’Reilly III, and Michael L.... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

President, Women's World Banking Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Stanford University, 1971 B.A., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Power matters. Money matters. People matter. We need to mobilize power,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry

people in 45 countries around the world. Carroll also launched initiatives to improve health and education in the localities where the company operates. Her compassion, strategic vision, and business acumen had a deep impact not just on... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal

percent of the wealth — and the bottom 40 percent virtually none — could guarantee equal opportunity for all its citizens. My colleagues and I are now exploring whether educating Americans about the current level of inequality might... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement

economist Burt Malkiel (MBA 1955), former chair of the Yale endowment Charley Ellis (MBA 1963), and former head of IBM’s investment funds Jay Vivian (MBA 1978) to serve on the Rebalance Investment Committee. The company has also invested in View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2012
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Who Owns Yoga?

Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, often asks his students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable? And next: Should everything be brandable? In “Branding Yoga,” cowritten with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

NY Club’s Senior Program makes the connection It’s been a little over five years since Len Polaner (MBA 1954) and a small committee of like-minded alumni in the HBS Club of New York launched the first Seniors Program, a series of social and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

and develop friendships with those outside your class as well." The academic program began early the next day and included presentations by W. Earl Sasser, Jr., the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management and chair of the School's Executive View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Countdown To Remote Learning

practice using Zoom features. It ended up being a real partnership,” says Descheneaux. While Datar believes the School was able to deliver a strong educational experience online, he acknowledges that students and faculty alike missed “the... View Details

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Books

The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 1998
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Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers

interested and involved in education issues as the father of two daughters enrolled in public schools. In 1972, he was elected to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education, serving a four-year term while that system was in the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2009
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Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962

for many years, and they have supported the School’s Global Initiative. In addition to aiding several educational institutions, recipients of their philanthropy and service include the International Center of Photography and the American... View Details