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20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable, safe housing is more than a matter of comfort and convenience; it positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

academic and life teachers who opened my eyes to what could be accomplished through science and innovation,” Blum says. “This was a way I could pay that back.” Having spent his childhood in the mountains of North Carolina, Blum is a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

Marine Corps. He volunteered for service only to be rejected because of a childhood medical condition. Unsuccessful in an appeal to overturn his disqualification, Kennealey returned to education, cofounding a Nativity Prep in his hometown... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 2021
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Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details

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10 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

received to-date on my coming out. From college roommate to childhood friend to most recent boss, they’ve all made my coming out less scary, much more enjoyable, and quite frankly, surprisingly entertaining. My coming out is very much... View Details

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-017 Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls This case covers formative events and influences in Christine Lagarde’s childhood and her... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

Roberts Illustration by PJ Loughran Carter Roberts (MBA ’88) traces his enchantment with nature back to his early childhood in Atlanta, where he roamed a backyard forest and discovered a fascinating world of creatures under rotting logs.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

unpopular and very costly war in Iraq. Meanwhile, countries that used to be called "less developed" became emerging markets, and have invested much more in the development of talent than we have. So there are also concerns about the competitiveness of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

travel policies. Though few and far in between, moments together are magical, made all the more special by their rarity.So love, for me, is definitely here at HBS, but it is also thousands of miles away at a studio apartment in the heart of Nairobi or, even further... View Details

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

childhood on, can be as powerful a concept as gender or race, by empowering people to challenge decline culture and join an anti-ageist movement. Margaret is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.... View Details

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

other diseases. In addition to disruptions with the flu supply in each of the past four years, the Times notes that there have been shortages in eight of the eleven vaccines for childhood diseases in the U.S. Why were we vulnerable to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

You Soar, Adams recounts her humble childhood and the challenges she faced as a young girl, and how she overcame them and went on to live the life of her dreams. After experiencing adversity, poverty, and personal tragedy, Jennifer made a... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

videoconference hookup. Recalls Baumhart, "We were encouraged to leverage what we were learning from classmates, from guest experts, and from other MBA courses. I also made numerous contacts with individuals who share my interests in nonprofit work and in technology... View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

New Yorker at heart, and a curious and resourceful learner. All of these pieces of her identity have shaped the leader she is today and the impact she makes in her company and community. Plugging into Support to Carve Her Path Born and raised in New York City, Ramirez... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Marcela Sapone

spin-out of Dupont. Work dictated several moves and Sapone spent a part of her childhood living in Copenhagen and later Paris. She focused on starting ventures, like a crafts fair or a literary magazine, using a combination of charisma... View Details

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

to its—and Morocco’s—benefit. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-049 Nykaa.com: A Passion for Beauty Being an entrepreneur was a childhood dream for Falguni Nayar. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Marla Malcolm Beck

Beck to try her hand in private equity. She joined a private equity firm and quickly had an epiphany. In this new role, she felt too far removed from the strategy and operations of a business and her childhood urge to run her own show was... View Details

25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Leaders Program

learned how important it is to apply systems-level thinking to climate issues and solutions. Henry Tao: I grew up on a small farm in the middle of China. Reflecting on my childhood experience, I've always been passionate about... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability. Housing is generally considered "affordable" when its cost does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

abuse throughout his life and spent fifteen years homeless on the streets of Las Vegas, far from their California home, before he died in 2003. “My father gave us the biggest gift he could have, which was to leave,” says Landles-Dowling. “I escaped a potentially tough... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

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