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- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
expectations market; reining in monopoly pension and hedge funds; and enlarging private companies' role in the economy. Seeing Patients: Unconscious Biasin Health Care by Augustus A. White III (AMP 94, 1984) with David Chanoff (Harvard... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of underlying View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
cares that provide nutrition, health care, and educational support for mothers and young children—represent a particularly rich target. Rocket is currently working with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, which runs the centers,... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
reimagining women’s health to include a range of conditions and investing in new products to address the inequities that women face in the health care system. The FemHealth... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
since women control or influence a lion’s share of household buying decisions. That includes cars, vacations, electronics, health care, and more. We also see a lot in the media about work-life balance and the difficulties working mothers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
can get back to the level of preparedness they need to be at. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
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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