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- 10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami
younger but still eager for a sense of community. Vitality Society aims to broaden that industry scope through 20 hours of live programming each week, aimed at people who either live in senior housing or aren’t yet ready for that step....
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- 18 Nov 2014
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Touching the lives of patients and their loved ones
Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) is deputy CEO of the largest private health care provider in Turkey, focused on improving the patient experience. She is also working to introduce the “softer skills” into the primary school curriculum. (Published November 2014)
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap
yet, the crisis has shed light on areas where business leaders can make an important difference, such as supporting schools and programs that enable students to gain skills and talents for productive employment and create a foundation for sustained economic growth that...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
politics, and a business landscape dominated by yesterday’s champions. Murphy places these troubles in a broad historical context, combining analyses of Japanese culture and society over the centuries with accounts of Japan's numerous...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
electric vehicle will provide the opportunity for emissions to be treated at the level of the power plant. "This will be much more effective and cheaper to society in the long run than putting emissions controls directly on automobiles,"...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
graduates, international alumni, and the HBS Fund Investors Society. We ask our peers to join us in making leadership gifts to the HBS Fund and introduced a new fundraising volunteer role—Investors Society class agents—that focuses on...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
first-year MBA students encounter nearly a dozen cases that address environmental concerns. “My vision would be that all students graduate with a clear understanding of the predicted ramifications of climate change on society and on...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Back to School
D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
Harris took the idea nationwide by cofounding the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). As the NSBE approaches its 40th anniversary next year, its 400 chapters and 30,000 members make it the largest student-run organization in the...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Japanese Connection
Japan Society of Northern California, based in San Francisco, and made friends with many recent Japanese immigrants. Before long, he found himself helping them get a foothold in their adopted country by revising their résumés, or advising...
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- 01 Feb 2013
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Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole...
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- 01 Nov 2018
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Showing Girls the Possibilities
Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) is the former chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands and serves on a number of corporate boards. In this interview, she talks about another, more personal focus of her efforts and energies. “If I look for the common thread of...
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- 01 Jul 2000
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What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming
- 25 Apr 2014
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In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
Even before a weeklong trip to Accra, Ghana, as part of the required MBA course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD), Australian Tim Leach (MBA 2015) knew that exposure to doing business in emerging markets would be an essential element of his...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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The New Global Business Manager
power comes a huge responsibility to act as global citizens who make a contribution. The great challenge for multinational corporations in the next decade will be to establish the confidence of society at large, governments in particular,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
When she joined the new private-sector team at Oxfam America as a freshly minted MBA in 2007, Roshini Moodley Naidoo was essentially given the following directive: All those great ideas we’ve been discussing? Make them happen. It was a bit more nuanced than that, of...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
FROM SUCCESS TO SIGNIFICANCE: Kanter (at left) with several of this year’s ALI fellows. Baby boomers of the world, arise! Calling it “an opportunity to deploy people to fix the world’s problems,” HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter launched the Advanced Leadership...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Changing Student Life
"I'm actually an abstract artist," Jaja Jackson (MBA '99) told the Boston Globe (November 27, 2000), "but you know what? I was forced to go to school." That education — Harvard College, followed by a job at McKinsey, and then HBS — has paid off. Jackson is cofounder...
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- 04 Aug 2015
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Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society today. “Harvard changed my life,” said Jakurski. “It enabled me to look at risks in a completely different way, to not be afraid of really taking risks, of...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
and controlling stakes in the company. “It seemed we were a big fish to eat, and everybody wanted a piece of us,” she told the audience with a wry grin, going on to describe how the three fought to keep control of the corporation. Resisting stereotypes in a...
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