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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
dramatically disproportionate effects of the death and devastation it has wrought on the poor, women, and other marginalized members of communities across the world. We hope to host a thoughtful conversation about these themes, the crises... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
labor organizations should be in their death throes." The kind of thinking needed to meet these challenges for organized labor can be found, according to Walter Blass, in Japan. In his words, "I suggest you look at Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Mike Cohen
When it comes to the legacy I hope to leave, I have some tough acts to follow. My grandparents escaped death in Nazi concentration camps to provide a safer environment to raise their children. Thirty years later, my parents fled a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Foluke Otudeko
understood this and believed "the greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision." Come see my vision for Africa I see not just starvation and death but a vibrant Africa; empowered to dream big. Not just dirty... View Details
- Portrait Project
Phillip Jones
deacon, but by President Obama. Clementa was one of nine, killed in the Mother Emmanuel church shooting, and his death changed my worldview forever. Hours after the President serenaded the arena with a teary Amazing Grace, we buried my... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
shores. The true danger of COVID-19 lies in its ability to spread aggressively while taking a heavy toll on a significant portion of those who contract it. Consequently, it places severe stress on hospitals, which only exacerbates the problem and ultimately leads to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
native would have relished every whistle-stop appearance of his book tour. Ambitious, inquisitive, and brimming with gusto for life’s adventures, it’s easy to imagine Valenti sitting down with Charlie Rose or holding forth at a book reading. Instead, his View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong If mistakes are bound to happen—like death and perhaps taxes—then leaders need to let them be seen, says Victoria Montgomery Brown (MBA 2003), CEO and cofounder of... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
one reason: a death in the customer's family. A look at the number of waivers showed double-digit growth for the past three years. Either there was a death epidemic, or customers had figured out they could... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
the visceral state passes, and they make different judgments and decisions.” Source: Deepak Malhotra, Michael Luca, and Christopher Poliquin To investigate the effects of waiting periods, the researchers did two analyses. First, they studied data about waiting period... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
well-documented. They are the generation that will probably preside over and witness the death of newspapers in their lifetime. So here’s a question, especially for those Bulletin readers with international experience or business... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
Courtesy Equitas Advisory Group In the months after the death of George Floyd, Susan Harmeling (MBA 1991) and Charles Henderson (MBA 1991) came together to form Equitas Advisory Group, an evidence-based consultancy geared toward helping... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
his death to the HBS community, Dean Nitin Nohria said, “John Whitehead has been an alumnus we have held up as exemplifying the competence and character we associate with true leadership. It is with deep sadness, as a community, that we... View Details
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
family's fine wine-and-spirits business," Bussel says. But in 2006, when a close friend died unexpectedly, Bussel had an epiphany. "His death made me realize that if I wanted to do something in life, this was the time to do it," she says.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
become destinations for “medical tourists” from the West. Meanwhile, the country’s infant and maternal death rates are high, and diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and malaria are still far too prevalent. Chidambaram concluded by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
Shames and Peter Barton (MBA 1982) “This book is about a man on his deathbed (Barton) looking back at his life and appreciating the energy and enthusiasm with which he has lived it, and another man (Shames) comparing his own as he chronicles Barton’s life and View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Barron continued to rise through the ranks of the Xerox Corporation, earning kudos in 1993 as a Business Week "Executive to Watch." Three years ago, she was named president of Xerox engineering systems. But a string of personal events occurring in the last few years -... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
improve teaching across the faculty. The center is named after C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen (MBA 3/’43, DCS ’53), a much-loved HBS faculty member who had a powerful impact on HBS students and faculty as well as educators around the world during his years at the... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, which deals in part with Sandberg’s coming to terms with the death of her husband David Goldberg in 2015. After her loss, the article notes, Sandberg felt “isolated” at... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
illiterate population in the world. Additionally, India has no nationally accepted means of verifying residents' identities. For example, even though registration of births and deaths became mandatory in 1969, only 55 percent of births... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman