public education - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Apr 2024
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To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2006
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Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants

moderators and discussants. The panels examined aspects of education, the environment, finance and philanthropy, health care, international development, public policy, and technology. A “Pitch for Change” competition gave participants a... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

25 Apr 2014
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A model of service

Through 20 years spent as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen in New York City, Ashley Garrett (MBA 1987) transformed volunteer work into an educational experience for students. At All Souls, a feeding program for some of the city's... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

transformed the magazine from a more academic publication to one that targeted business managers with relevant, accessible articles. He shortened articles and even added cartoons, a decision that appalled some. His aim, Levitt told... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2003
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Ruling from the Bench

in the DA’s various bureaus, she recalls, was an education in itself and a means of attaining her immediate goal: a transfer to the homicide bureau. Her ambition was met with skepticism in that all-male world; women were thought too... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

22 Oct 2014
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Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead

done a lot of work supporting the public school districts and I was becoming more and more familiar with what was going on in the public schools in terms of student achievement levels and a rapid decline... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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“Where can we find such a person?”

Also on the agenda would be managing internal and external communications, including dealing with the press and public about the controversies surrounding our work. And the person would have to run the administrative side to make sure we... View Details

Keywords: stem cell; Management

01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises

climate change or ensure the future of U.S. public entitlement programs. It will take leadership and a brave new approach to decision-making by those at the highest levels. — Deborah Blagg View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Services; Educational Services

11 Aug 2011
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Heard on the Street and the She-E-Os

students. Although the current groups do not perform at the Boston Pops concerts as the Tycoons had, their music is publicized by means of a CD recording every year. According to Laurent de Vitton de Peyruis (MBA 2003K), recording that... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

image by John Ritter Twenty-five years after the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) was launched at HBS, the Bulletin sits down with professors on the forward edge of the movement: Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004), who developed the EC course View Details

01 Oct 2000
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John C. Sawhill Remembered

University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1958. He earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1963 from New York University, where he served as professor of economics and president of the university from 1975 to 1979.... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

every decision. I don’t have to tell anyone here that we face an uphill battle in Scranton, but I have seen that with a collaborative effort, public officials can accomplish extraordinary things. It can’t happen overnight, and officials... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Jun 2018
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In Memoriam: Hugo Uyterhoeven

completely restructured that group’s activities, creating a new focus on development, revamping the class reunion format and establishing corporate relations and public relations efforts. Subsequently, Uyterhoeven took charge of the... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

and hybrid learning and develop an ongoing curriculum of educational experiences in which alumni can engage in classroom discussions with each other, MBA students, faculty, and other practitioners on the most pressing business questions... View Details