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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
he recalls. Within months, Wyman exited the firm, but several years passed before he found his new calling, what he regards as the transformational outcome of his HBS experience. Building on their previous experiences in Rwanda, the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
basic practices, such as acknowledging what constitutes third-degree racism so there is no hiding behind a lack of understanding; committing to diversity plans that meet a carefully considered standard of rigor; and delivering outcomes in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into football's deleterious View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Health (NIH) undertook the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the extraordinarily intricate chemical composition of the human genome. Scientists have long believed that understanding the vast genetic code underlying all human life... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
had entered an extraordinary public health challenge that would affect all aspects of our society. Information about how the virus worked was key. There were so many competing beliefs. One fundamental part of the equation was trying to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
outcomes in the coming years. “I lead an organization called Cancer Research UK, which is, outside the US government, the largest cancer research organization in the world. And what that requires us to do is to think about every aspect of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
lowest-income countries," he explains, "76 percent of health spending is private, and 70 percent is out of pocket." Furthermore, the health services and products that poor people pay for are all too often... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Island Promise. The state legislature approved it in 2017, making Rhode Island one of some 20 states that have adopted similar programs. Sara Enright (MBA 2004), vice president of student affairs and chief outcomes officer at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
instead of companies, and agencies provide some of the health and other employee benefits once supplied by corporations. Bradach hopes to learn whether the flexibility model represents a lasting shift in how work is to be organized. "Does... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
roundtables, workshops, awards, and fireside chats. Culture Shift aims to solve relevant problems in diversity, like how tech can improve health outcomes or financial disparities with the input of diverse... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
reinvesting in the underpinnings of our economy and laying the groundwork for long-term prosperity. That means investing in infrastructure, clean energy, and education. We need to address the health-care crisis and end the shame of tens of millions of Americans without... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
others, I found that the founders with the most enviable outcomes had usually followed basic principles of entrepreneurship. Most encouraging, I discovered, is that those principles can be learned. Howard Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Baker... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
sometimes, maybe the outcome is no action. But that's fine. You learned it. And then you never know when the external environment changes. There will be something actionable. Sarah Wright, 1997. All leadership is very close in nature to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
pandemic, we have seen firsthand the divide in our nation. The majority of citizens have been able to work from home and prosper. At the same time, millions of individuals (especially those in our industry) have been harder hit by this pandemic and extremely challenged... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details