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Karina Rodriguez

finest institutions, but I very easily could not have ended up here. Several of my peers growing up were brilliant. Yet somewhere along the path towards our high school diplomas, they fell through the cracks of our public education... View Details

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

developed a clutch system and mounted our lawnmower engine onto my 3-speed bike. My top speed was 53 mph!” he says. With an engineering degree earned at Brigham Young University, Frey worked in the defense industry during the 1980s. When... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Jen Porter

need 19 years of in-prison education to earn her GED; James, who begged for mental-health services while serving his sentence, only to be told that he would have to act out to be given proper medical attention. The prison View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

resilience in the face of difficult challenges. “However,” he added, “I think we should all be deeply troubled about the way our political system is functioning.” Rubin also urged the HBS audience, well known for its pro bono and... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

appropriate. That's one pole of the continuum. At the other pole, you have people who really believe there's something extremely wrong with the barrel. Thus it's not just a matter of a few bad apples; what we really need is a wholesale revamping of the View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

the last quarter century, not only in terms of entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and... View Details

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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

via LinkedIn Print Share via email Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with... View Details

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Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning

By: Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber

At least 62 million K-12 students in North America—disproportionately low-income children of color— have been physically out of school for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These children are at risk of significant academic, social, mental, and physical harm... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Public Health; Air Quality; Social Determinants Of Health; Schooling Hesitancy; Vaccine Hesitancy; Racial Injustice; Inequity; Inequality; Health Pandemics; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Race; Equality and Inequality

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01 Mar 2011
News

On the Outside at HBS

HBS; these are systemic issues in business, society, and our global environment. The challenge for this generation of leadership at HBS is to confront these issues head-on, as it is doing right now. I look forward to watching the... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

on it, and quantifying the consequences is an essential step toward true progress, economically and socially, around the world.” Web Extra “A National System of Income Supplementation” View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Student turns family health crisis into online solution

When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from a distinct perspective. “No... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Books

strategy. The text of Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy is supported by more than thirty new case studies, all of which have been taught in the HBS Executive Education and... View Details

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LaToya Marc

Growing up in small towns in Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, LaToya Marc found her passion for social justice tempered by the practical need to make a decent living. "I was raised by a single mother who stressed the importance of View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Robert F. Kennedy High School

By: John J. Gabarro

Presents the problem facing a newly appointed high school principal. Raises issues about interpersonal and group behavior including lack of open conflict resolution and the need to intervene in an interpersonal conflict. Also raises the issue of intergroup conflict... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Secondary Education; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Conflict Management; System

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01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

HBS Press Books in Brief Total Access: Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World. Regis McKenna, the renowned "father of high-tech marketing," sets forth a new marketing paradigm in which machines and networks do most of the work, marketers must... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

investigate some kind of central challenge to the broader society,” Thomas says. “How about a trek to the Sudan, or a trek to look at public education in places where school systems face major challenges?”... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Health, Social Assistance

Rick Grinnell

Systems (acquired by IBM), TrackVia (acquired by Primus Capital) and VeloBit (acquired by Western Digital). Rick also has deep operating experience, having held senior marketing and engineering roles at Adero (acquired by Inktomi),... View Details

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WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services | Baker Library

Pennsylvania. Strengths include deep archives of historical data, a common web interface for access to all WRDS databases, and a variety of output file formats. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available HBS Executive View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

A Healthy Profit

crew is offered medical checkups, and more than 90 percent of employees participate in yearly health fairs that provide free screenings and educational resources. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH “All of their cruise ships have an internal water... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland himself who “in desperation”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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