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- 18 Dec 2005
- News
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
- 23 Jan 2024
- News
A Wide Net
businesses that I believe have no meaningful path to escape velocity—to outgrow an addiction to capital and become self-financing. But we’re certainly seeing far more sobriety, both on the founder side and the investor side,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
raising five kids, all of whom were attending good schools; the eldest was working on Wall Street. Then, suddenly, late one Saturday evening, their youngest child, age 16, returned home in tears. He’d been about to take his own life, he told his parents, driven by an... View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
schools; the eldest was working on Wall Street. Then, around midnight one Saturday in March, his youngest child, age 16, returned home in tears. He’d been about to take his own life, he told his parents, driven by an alcohol addiction he... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
teaching medical professionals how to help patients avoid opioid addiction by using hypnotic strategies to reduce the need for pain medications. “My work with Comfort Talk, which is the name of my company, in using hypnotic techniques for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
of jeans for her burial, I came across a brown, leather-bound journal. I opened it and found passages from the weeks before she died. When I showed the journal to a neighbor (who happened to be an addiction psychiatrist) he said, “You... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
beliefs that people hold about themselves. And getting over that hurdle before focusing on the eating disorder behaviors. Flint: I think this is tied to what you're just saying, but it seems to me that one of the ways in which eating disorder recovery is different... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
and followers see it. (3) Make and post videos of your cards in action on YouTube. Be sure to get onto Youtube Kids and pay to get on the homepage. My kids are addicted to watching videos of people opening presents. If you show how your... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
2015) appeared nervous yet confident as he took the stage and began his pitch to the energized audience of more than 500. Gastfriend spoke of a friend, Anna, who was addicted to opioids. He watched her struggle with the indignity of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
are stories about resurgence, among them: Annette Dove, who has devoted her life to helping the teenagers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as they navigate the chaotic reality of growing up poor; Daniel McDowell, of Baltimore, whose tale of opioid View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
tried-and-true pedagogy and gamification. “We want you to get addicted to the course the way you get addicted to a game,” he says. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
love nature. I love hiking. I love going to Tibet and just hike for days and days, or go to the Andes and do the same thing, hiking all the way Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, which is just physically thrilling and challenging. And I get View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
you were to where you are.” Henderson brings his story to audiences from LA to South Africa as managing director of the leadership development firm Henderson, Harper & Associates. Its power lies in its truth: From dabbling in marijuana at age 12 to a full-blown heroin... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
have basically gone too far. And on top of that, in the late 70s and early 80s, we made some terrible policy decisions in terms of what we did about drugs. We talk about Geneva Cooley in our book. And she's a woman who grew up in New York State and she got View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
extend their education, and develop workplace skills. They also receive support in personal areas where they need it, such as mental health, addiction recovery, and parenting. A Partnership Is Born Anderson’s own path was shaped by her... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
countries. Høegh explains that he always tries to include a philanthropic side to his artistic endeavors: "Among those employed in my productions in Norway were rehabilitated drug addicts from a special jobs program. Having this kind of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley