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- 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
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
in the San Francisco area. He is president of The BASIC Fund, which provides scholarships to Bay Area inner–city children to attend private schools. The proceeds from the Rock gift to HBS will be used to support a wide range of faculty View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
the organization moved to a larger space and hired its first employee. A few years later, it moved to a still-larger location. In the early days of Hope and Comfort, Feingold sometimes struggled to explain the concept of hygiene insecurity to the View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Ronnie and Larry Ackman (MBA 1963) and produced by New York public broadcaster WNET. The three episodes in the series premiered on WNET and are now being offered to some 400 business schools in the United States and Great Britain “in hope... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
nonprofit international development organization that he has chaired for the past decade. While he now draws a firm line between business and public service, the skills he uses in each realm overlap tremendously. Many of those skills —... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
cohort, the Foundations course for incoming MBA students, and a greater emphasis on group projects requiring intensive faculty involvement. Concurrently, the overall MBA class size has increased by 10 percent, while section size has... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
parking will be unnecessary, thanks to a combination of "data-driven decision-making with autonomous driving, to deliver mobility on demand." Meanwhile, gas taxes, peak-use fees, and public transportation can free up roads. "There's... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
interacted with it...I wanted to take the chapel and make it a public space." Bob Ryan: The funeral home was in a very rundown building. If you segment the African American market, you had people who couldn’t really afford to pay for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with their private counterparts, the... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
outcomes for the city groups we worked with and hopefully higher impact for the residents of San Francisco.” Nora Barr (MBA 2016), who recently finished two projects with the SF Public Library, says... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
to bring new art to public museums by way of private funding—was an idea that Evans found intriguing. "Clearly, this has struck a chord," she says. "Quite simply, we are activating a new sector for engagement with the arts. Traditionally,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
to attack it and shut it down before it kills you. Morrell: You also talk about digital resilience as sort of a public health issue. Talk about that concept, and what that might look like, for somebody who’s... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
residents with tangible results: When a BOS:311 app user posts a photo of a downed tree limb, for example, the responding public works team often adds a photo of the clean street as well as the workers. “It closes the loop,” she says,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
becoming increasingly aware that the viability of your business depends on dealing with climate change issues. But in the United States it can be politically risky for a CEO of a major company to take a public position on climate change... View Details