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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Happy Campers: HBS Student Auction Helps Local Kids
At a "Christmas in July" auction held last summer, the January Cohort of the Class of 2001 raised just over $15,000 to benefit the Cambridge Camping Association (CCA), a 106-year-old organization dedicated to helping low-income, minority, and at-risk View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
children around the world. That volunteer work evolved into a full-time position: From 2000 to 2005, D’Avella worked in the organization’s offices in Virginia, Rome, and London to support its missions in various countries and to build its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
obligated to use that talent to help others.” During a hiatus from full-time employment to raise three children, she has utilized her talents to help save the lives of enough Russian children to fill four elementary schools. In 1996, at a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
The revolution started several years ago with Khan Academy, an innovative online portal of educational videos and tutorials that has attracted millions of followers and showed educators a thing or two about the way today’s children learn.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Taking up the issue of climate change
countries of the world to somehow reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses," says Horn, whose two daughters are also environmental activists. "We want to leave a world to our children that is in balance and that is sustainable for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
hazardous. Discarded electronics are usually shipped to China, Africa, and India, where workers—frequently children with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. BlueOak is building... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
do have two words. They are my motto for raising children to be happy, and those two words are under-program and over-invest. Under-program one is kind of obvious. The less-- like, I didn't grow up going to swimming, then skating, then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
ramifications as well. “I knew that was the start of me not even thinking about marriage or children because I had made a commitment to my profession and to my company,” recalls Russo. It’s a commitment that her tradition-bound Sicilian... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
been improving lives in India for years. As CEO at Cummins, he helped establish the first engineering college for women; and later, at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
which took the top prize in the social enterprise track, seeks to eliminate functional illiteracy in India by enabling poor children to stay in school for several years beyond the fifth grade â¹ a time when many drop out to help support... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Harvard community in Istanbul and gather a group to describe how this disaster has impacted the most vulnerable, especially the estimated 1,000 children in Turkey left orphaned by the earthquakes. "Our purpose was to raise awareness and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
almost forty years with J&J, he quickly found a new mission as chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), a coalition of communications professionals dedicated to persuading children to reject substance abuse. The result... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
about unlocking the lessons we learned through Big Brothers Big Sisters to instill structure and discipline to underserved children at scale. I know how my relationship with Austin impacted my life, and Austin observed, with his own son,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
As he turned over company operations to his children last winter, it was a time for reflection for Samuel Johnson (MBA ’52), chairman emeritus of SC Johnson, one of the country’s oldest and largest family-owned firms, with $9 billion in... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- News
How a Passion for Travel Built a $43 Million Fashion Brand
responsibility has been in our DNA from the beginning,” Rawdon says, citing an ongoing partnership with The Global Fund for Children now in its 15th year. “Our magnitude is already large, but we want to get even bigger.” READ MORE View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
legislative process. Both can seek support from a select group of investors to help enact the proposals as law. This and Draper’s six-state push are not even his first forays into the public sector. After pulling his children from public... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
auditoriums at AMC Studio 30 offer the same full menu to guests 18 and over, as well as children accompanied by a parent or guardian. There's also an IMAX theater (AMC has more than any theater group in the world); the remaining 17... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
way learning should happen. You’re soon going to open a brick-and-mortar school? I totally believe in brick-and-mortar schools, and I want my children to attend one, but with a very different environment and setup. Unfortunately,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
services jargon is really scary for newer investors to overcome. In the United States, we don’t teach children how to manage their finances in school. So even when people graduate from college or graduate school, many don’t have the tools... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into disadvantage, among other issues. No... View Details