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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
application related to their socioeconomic background, such as where they grew up, their housing situation, and how they paid for college. “This approach has enabled us to understand much more about what our students carry with them day... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
industry had reached a steady simmer before the pandemic, hitting an estimated $61.8 billion in 2019, and is roaring back to life now that people are eager to emerge from their houses and indulge their senses in something new.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
to work on with this heroin campaign. Hanna: Last week the White House introduced four ads that are focused on prescription opioids, and they feature the stories of four people who purposely hurt themselves in order to get more of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Harvard University and other institutions found that 43 percent of small businesses had temporarily closed. Immediate action was needed to support the sector. Mills, author of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, was active in advising policymakers in Congress... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
mandatory waiting-period laws.) This natural experiment provided a second approach for the researchers to explore the causal impact of waiting periods, and it confirmed the initial results, bolstering the team’s confidence in its findings. In February 2019, the View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
the Cicero Group in 2001, working out of his house with a few colleagues. “When I talk to young entrepreneurs today, they always ask about my business plan,” he notes. “I have to laugh. My business plan was a mortgage and a baby on the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
woman's election to the American presidency. In 1997 I cofounded the White House Project - with Barbara Lee, a civic activist working out of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Marie Wilson, president of the Ms. Foundation. We ran a ballot in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
limited. O’Neal’s mother worked as a “domestic,” cleaning houses, and when he wasn’t harvesting crops with his three younger siblings, he sold and delivered newspapers. As it turned out, his father wasn’t cut out for farming either, and when O’Neal was 12, his family... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
bipartisan furor ensued. The House has voted to overturn some of the agency’s decision. What’s going on? Until June 2, FCC rules decreed that no television network could own local stations that, in aggregate, reached more than 35 percent... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable consumers—children—introducing the first child-resistant... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
public service. He worked as the administration’s point man in dealing with that year’s crisis in the world oil supply. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he went to the White House to serve as counsel to newly appointed Vice President Nelson... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
the dinner, he sent a limousine to our house to bring her to the School. But most touching of all: when my mother died, John came to her funeral service at the Village Church. Following the service, he gave me a big hug; it was like being... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
examiner with the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he oversaw NASA projects to see how well they were adhering to presidential policy, as well as being stewards of the taxpayers’ money. “After years of aerospace being... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women’s voting rights in America reached the tipping point. The first southern... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
broke, returned to find his recently renovated house destroyed. Atwood remembers driving around the city, seeing refrigerators ready to be discarded on the curb outside almost every house. And in front of many, there were pianos.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
“There’s a lot of relationship-building behind a development like this,” Oakes says of the housing project. “I’ve always wanted to be the bridge between ‘hard’ business skills and nonprofits — and since I didn’t always speak the language... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
that also housed a hamburger stand. It was 100 square feet and featured a single copier, an offset press, film processing, and a small selection of stationery and school supplies. "I essentially had a concept that would work on any... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in Ohio, and nursing homes housing... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
policies are going to make a big difference in this country. Making sure that there's enough money for all older adults to support healthy aging going forward. And a lot of other countries have done better in finding housing alternatives.... View Details