Advocacy - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2023
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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

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

04 Aug 2020
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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

01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

different books resonate in different seasons. Recently, I’ve enjoyed Brené Brown’s work, especially Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. I appreciate her data-based advocacy... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Dec 2017
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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

02 Mar 2016
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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

01 Jun 1998
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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

06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace

healthy so that we can continue to do the advocacy that we do. Hanna: It has been just three years since you started The Stability Network, but I wonder, if you've seen any changes in the culture around mental illness in the workplace?... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Oct 1996
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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

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