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- 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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
through writing, speaking, and advocacy work has helped some, but as a Harvard MBA, I remain frustrated that making a bigger positive difference remains so elusive. In 2012, Melissa Weiksnar published Heroin’s Puppet: Amy (and her... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
out brochures himself. With the financial backing of the Levi Strauss Foundation (made up mostly of Haas family members) and with additional resources, management advice, and advocacy support coming from the company, each Project Change... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's principal UNC legacy will likely... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
chefs, and a full agenda of scholarship and mentoring programs, chef’s advocacy work, and sustainability initiatives. “The foundation is very multi-faceted and multi-disciplined, so my role is to ensure that all of those components are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
detailed in the recent book A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women (Penn State University Libraries), written by Lee Stout. Nixon's advocacy of women's issues, often at odds with his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, an advocacy group that promotes the sport. He’s also involved in an effort to preserve 50,000 acres of farmland and open space from the steady pace of development. “It’s a signature brand... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
inequalities in patient care. In 1998, the foundation’s advocacy encouraged the New Zealand government to institute free breast cancer screenings for women ages 50 to 64, later extended to 45 to 69. The foundation is currently working to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
as she puts it — Clarke sees her next step as getting support from U.S. foundations. “We are at an important juncture,” says Clarke, whose enthusiasm for SSP-SA and advocacy for education would make her mother and grandmother proud. “I am... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
Langer has served as executive director of the National Alliance for Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), a leading patient advocacy and educational nonprofit based in New York City. “As a patient, I found it very hard to get... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
“As a journalist. I can’t be an advocate,” insists Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) about the subject matter of her latest book, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, which she coauthored last year with her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
more vocal in sharing stories of its students and alumni, as well as its programming, including LEDA Scholars, LEDA Career and Alumni Services, and LEDA Policy Project, which is geared toward supporting scholars interested in advocacy in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
criticism of its early social media marketing campaign targeting teens. Then Toffel, who is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, poses a tough question: “What should JUUL do now, given the pressure that it’s under from View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
advice to MBAs just starting their careers, their responses contained a similar advocacy for what one of them termed a "wholistic" approach to life and work, with emphasis on the "whole." "We all have to be true to ourselves in the end"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 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
- 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
- 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