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- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
Stewart isn't afraid to make some noise when it's called for. When Facebook was preparing to go public in 2012, Stewart helped create a campaign that highlighted the lack of women on the social networking giant's board. Part of that campaign was a protest by a women's... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
since—"an intermezzo," she calls it—to do volunteer public advocacy work in behalf of people with physical disabilities and chronic pain. She has participated in roundtable discussions with national pain experts and disability sessions... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa. I’ve served on the board of WildCare, an education and advocacy nonprofit based in San Rafael, California, that cares for injured and orphaned animals, which is how I became involved in rehabilitating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
whether different forms of wealth redistribution — for example, raising the minimum wage, or longer-term interventions like reducing disparities in education — are less likely to evoke heated opposition and perhaps increase advocacy for... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
nonetheless. She cofounded Minds Matter, a now-nationwide mentoring and college preparatory nonprofit that launched her on a lifelong mission to improve public education. Named Woman of the Year by the California State Assembly in 2014 for her View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
representatives in support of the successful campaign for marriage equality in New York State. Our social media campaigns have reached 14 million people, and we've won awards for the innovative advocacy technology we've created and built.... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
that immigrants in some cities face wait times four times longer and denial rates two times higher than the national average. For Wang, immigration advocacy is essential to the startup’s business model. Boundless led a coalition of more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
ongoing scrutiny on the part of government regulators, who themselves experience a wide range of pressures from consumer and other advocacy groups." Emmons argues that ultimately the notion that government is becoming less relevant to... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
pattern-recognition, numeric, mechanical, and abstract skills. Once chosen, the trainees were employed by HPE and then deployed to client sites. With 1 in 63 Australian school children on the Autism Spectrum, according to Autism Aspergers View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
running the market research firm Geosegment Systems Corporation, which he founded in 1991. In addition to its advocacy before the NRC, Popik’s group has become a regular at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the obscure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
sustainable community development. We also work informally with a number of other groups, but project work is really only half of what we do. What is your other focus? Our other focus is advocacy — essentially influencing the behavior of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
high-profile California. To the consternation of the trial bar, his advocacy group placed three initiatives (ultimately unsuccessful) on the state's March 1996 ballot. On the smoking front, Tobias, a Slavic languages and literatures major... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
secret that the devices Gazelle collects are important in many domains—ranging from education, to emerging markets, to women's shelters. The press around this could provide a needed boost." —Kathy Korman Frey (MBA 1999) "One, they must generate awareness in the general... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
of our clients called us their “brand advocacy partner.” I thought that was cool because that’s really what this place is about — getting behind a brand to help it win in its category. CP+B has seen enormous growth in the past ten years.... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
advocacy and managing their international support funds. White: Obviously, the Pussy Riot story is one that really broke through in, at least, US media. Do you think it raised people's understanding of this issue that you're trying to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation’s... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
leadership role and I was never going to run a bank,” Brooks says of her decision to join the Schott Foundation. “Long-term, intangible work was new to me,” Brooks says, adding the work of the foundation—partnering with teachers’ unions and grassroots View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Hanna: In addition to serving as COO and treasurer of the Ford Foundation, Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) started the nonprofit advocacy group, Moms of Black Boys United, after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
government affairs offices, that many times are engaging in public policy, writing, and advocacy that even other employees and other departments in the organization are not fully aware of. This is not asking businesses who are apolitical... View Details