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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
enrollment hits related to the pandemic, including a 7-percent decline here at CCRI. Community college students are more likely to come from low-income communities and communities of color, precisely the groups that have been disproportionately impacted by both the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
January. “I hope women and men will take it,” he says. —JH Spotlighting Inequality Michael Norton “It’s not only what they don’t know that gets ’em into trouble, it’s what they know for sure that just ain’t so.” This aphorism (with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
said Spar. Pricing inequities (90 percent of couples conceive for free), inconsistent insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and ambiguous legislation around property and privacy rights all create a unique market environment. Until... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
taken by photographer Webb Chappell, who did his excellent work in the Stamps Reading Room in Baker Library. Sachin Jain To Your Health Jain “Starting when I was about six,” Sachin Jain recalls, “I’d watch the evening news with my father,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
family questioned in medical settings. “Death rates from COVID-19 in communities of color illuminate the impact of race on health outcomes,” he notes, “but serious inequities have existed for generations.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling democracy. Rather than a screed against capitalism, this book is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with democracy. Raymond Baker explains the... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to meeting the View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
health care. Those statistics are things that we have to keep in mind. And I don't think that the implication is that we have to open up our checkbooks and write bigger checks. I don't think the implication is that everybody necessarily... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
Waldron says. “We were having a crisis in education before the pandemic, in terms of disparities in kids’ learning gains.” Now, after two years of disrupted learning in many places, those inequities are even more apparent, and progress is... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five areas: increasing hourly wages for its workforce; investing in... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
had entered an extraordinary public health challenge that would affect all aspects of our society. Information about how the virus worked was key. There were so many competing beliefs. One fundamental part of the equation was trying to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. Esquel also works to enhance the well-being of its employees. “Their View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
University. While there, she studied abroad in Ghana in order to learn more about that part of the world. “I had initially imagined a future in international diplomacy but quickly realized the political side of things was not for me. I was more drawn to the idea of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
some lines. I don’t think we want to set up, as other countries have, what amounts to a central authority that looks at everybody’s choices. But we need to look at the extremes and whether there are some practices we just don’t want to allow. For example, there’s not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
powerful emerging nations; security threats from radical movements, failed states, asymmetric warfare, and crime; and global health issues, including pandemics. Finally, our participants cited the inability of existing global institutions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, Stanford Medical School, and the Brookings Institution to contribute educational content on the visual arts, medicine, and health care, respectively. “We’re also launching some... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
number of working women who’ve experienced negative health consequences as a result of the pandemic is 10 to 12 percentage points higher than men. It’s stress, a sense of being overwhelmed, depression—all of the conditions that occur when... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing inequities in education. BRIDGING THE GAP See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie