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23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Executive Education degrees and accreditations, and a range of sectors, demographics, and experiences. Board members are drawn from a pool of active alumni volunteers. The current board president is Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997). On... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Program by revising the need-based formula for financial aid and waiving application fees, and becoming the first academic partner to the OneTen Initiative , which aims to create 1 million jobs for Black Americans without a college degree... View Details

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

group started up an annual potluck in New York City, and 10 or 12 of us would drive down to meet 60 to 70 wonderful, accomplished gay and lesbian alums. I was co-president of the GSA my second year, and after graduating I organized 15 of the NYC annual potlucks and... View Details

21 Nov 2018
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Harvard Square's Hidden History

Ave. Two metal plates embedded in the section of Massachusetts Avenue between Dunster and Holyoke Streets mark the foundation of Goffe House, a building unearthed during the construction of the Red Line MBTA subway in 1910. Harvard’s View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

City, and 10 or 12 of us would drive down to meet 60 to 70 wonderful, accomplished gay and lesbian alums. I was co-president of the GSA my second year, and after graduating I organized 15 of the NYC annual potlucks and served as both View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

his college education and his NBA career offered him simultaneous introductions to HBS alumni – and powerful Black leadership. In his second year at UMass, Melcolm attended an event featuring Dan Reed, then president of the NBA D-League... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck. Cheng Lu (MBA 2010), View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

length in a process meant to provide an emotional release. The resulting records, hundreds and hundreds of pages in which employees disclose personal details of their day to day lives, offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

phenomenon in a way that medical institutions can understand. In past research, Goh focused on calculating the cost of workplace stress on medical costs in the US. That led Christine Sinsky, vice president of the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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News & Commentary - Advancing Racial Equity

Shai Feldman, Brandeis University; Amaney Jamal, Princeton University; David Makovsky, The Washington Institute and Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations under President Obama; and Khalil Shikaki, Brandeis University. The panel was... View Details

10 Sep 2001
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Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

(fracking) promised an abundance of accessible, cheap, domestically produced natural gas, but the cost to the environment remained a point of debate. As incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama faced Republican opponent Mitt Romney in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

American economy though they did not fully understand its implications. “What does it mean that the number of mortgages on homes is increasing?” wondered census analysts in 1923. “Does it mean growing wealth or growing poverty?” 21 The... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award from Wiley Publishing for Lazy Prices (Journal of Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the American Economic Review . Paul A. Gompers... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

American technology and know-how, governments' movement to be more fiscally conservative - make for a lot of stability and opportunity.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “There's great opportunity. Look at China; with more than a... View Details

11 Jul 2019
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Meet the MBA Class of 2020

EDUCATION Dartmouth College, Human Geography, 2013 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Jane the Bakery, Freckle Education, Bain & Co. HBS ACTIVITIES Section President Aspa Lekka “MY MAIN REASON FOR AN MBA IS TO BE A BETTER VERSION OF MYSELF.” HOME... View Details

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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

for High Performance. The Move to Remote On Tuesday, March 10, Harvard President Larry Bacow announced a University-wide transition to virtual instruction beginning immediately after spring break— in less than two weeks. A virtual... View Details

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