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Commencement 2015 Address | About
When I think about Perseverance, I recall the evening I spent at a student vigil last fall. It took place during the period of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of an African American teenager... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
example, input from our alumni community—in particular, members of the African American Alumni Association—was critical in helping us develop the Racial Equity Plan and will continue to be essential as we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
differently. We envisioned an interdisciplinary social enterprise, with a mission to create inclusive cities where poor and low-income people had greater housing choices. At mHS, we emphasize three principles: community, design, and affordability. We have five... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
reinvent the bookstore for the age of Amazon Making Sense of the Modern Startup How Bill Sahlman invented Entrepreneurial Finance The Founding of AASU Four alumni recall the forces and factors that drove them to found the African View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
exposure to curators and how they work and how exhibitions come together. All of these things just kind of fed into a growing curiosity, spending more and more of my free time participating in these activities on a very limited basis, buying the work of emerging... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the evolution of selective aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51759 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization By: Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
economic growth has stagnated, and poverty is on the rise. Most people in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia are poorer today than they were ten years ago, and most Africans were better off forty years ago. The average per... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Defeat Covid-19 in Rural Areas” that includes distributing free masks, involving governing councils, and using “digital weapons" that include awareness campaigns targeted to mobile phones. SEPTEMBER 30 Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008), a medical doctor and former president... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
50 African American HBS students and those running the Harbus when an article appeared in the paper that the Black students considered highly offensive. A resolution of the dispute was made possible largely... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
interesting to note the absence of family-owned companies in this group. If we take into consideration the fact that the use of social ventures as a competitive tool is not entirely legitimized within the Latin American business... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709410 Lapdesk Goes Global—Africa First Harvard Business School Case 809-066 Shane Immelman, founding CEO of the Lapdesk Company of South Africa, is facing a number of challenges in taking Lapdesk from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
future prospects of the democratic model and the limitations of our argument. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53115 October 2017 American Historical Review American Danger:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
in what is mostly a man's world. Entertainment at both the corporate and entertainer level is still dominated primarily by men. She's an African American in what is still predominantly a white person's... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
recordings over to Congo, and Central African Republic, and South Sudan where we were helping to build radio stations and broadcast them out to the LRA. Basically, the songs were subverting the brainwashing that a lot of the commanders... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil wars. Based on a half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, itpresents the history of the conflict through the voices of... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
Philadelphia; two African American men being escorted from the store. He flew out there that same day. How could Mark disappear for five days? As did his partner, Sheryl Sandberg. And it even got worse... View Details
Keywords: Re: Mandi Nerenberg
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
infrastructure development came from traditional international sources like the World Bank or African Development Bank, those lenders would worry about foreign exchange, interest rates, and political risk and would almost always seek... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman