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- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
centers—were school-related. "The most amazing thing we did was when we spent time at a nearby prison with prisoners who were about to go back out in the world," she says. "We were young school children... View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrew Levine
Or that my dad went to prison and never came back. Or that I was gay. Dreams were a risk, so I made all of the safe choices. I went to the right schools and worked at the right companies. Move in, move up, move on. Success, success,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Stephanie Parker
at the prison gate, rocking the crying baby to sleep, running the errands for the mother who hasn't the time. At times I may question myself and lack the ability to be brave and selfless. You'll find me choosing to serve, anyway. Make no... View Details
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Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers | Working Knowledge
a silver spoon in their mouths have an opportunity to do something like Harley’s doing?” A prison conviction leads to multiple employment rejections After losing his father at age 15, Blakeman fell into hard drug use. After he was... View Details
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
two books, she works as a columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review and as the editorial director of the digital and cable company Fusion. She lives in New York. Bryonn Bain Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn's own prison activist, actor,... View Details
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Kyle Caven
wait until old enough to drop out. Several former teammates are in prison for violent crimes. Despite this setting, my parent’s insistence on maximum effort and their examples at work and at home gave me confidence that I had the tools to... View Details
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Ilana Rosen
march hundreds of miles at gun point towards East Germany. If the prisoners sat from exhaustion they would be left to die or shot on site. My grandmother was overwhelmed from exhaustion, but Ila never let her sit. Ila is the reason I am... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
number of lobsters caught and has improved the lobster trap-making industry. It is used in about 99 percent of the traps fished in New England. Knott also manufactured WireWall, a leading security fencing that rings many American prisons... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
with little or no measurable result, SIBs offer a new way to address intractable societal problems. Here’s how the bonds work. Private investors purchase bonds that finance preventive programs run by nonprofit groups. If the programs, such as reducing homelessness or... View Details
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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 system is... View Details
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2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats - MBA
causing anxiety, unrest, fear, or personal discomfort to any person or group of persons shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 2 1/2... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
brokered creation of the first social impact bond, which supports a program to reduce reoffending rates among former inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough, a facility 75 miles north of London housing short-term offenders. The bond... View Details
- Profile
Maya Babu
delivery," Maya says. She's interested in prison health care in general, and juvenile mental-health issues specifically. "Eventually, I'd love to start a company that improves access to care and develops innovative models for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
publish his recommendations. We truly lost a legend! Leonard (“Ted”) Marks Jr. (MBA 3/’48, DBA ’61) Prescott, AZ Supporting Inner-City Start-ups Congratulations to Catherine Rohr for recognizing the entrepreneurial talent in Texas prisons, reported in the March article... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
Francisco office of management consulting firm Marakon Associates and plans to continue his ministry as a prison counselor, that journey is clearly an ongoing quest. “Business is actually very spiritual because it relates to who we are... View Details
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Hayling Price
the city. The other was an impoverished community of poor people who had hoped to step up from even more dire circumstances in Harlem or the Bronx. "I saw the birth lottery up close and personal," he says. "We all lived within a few miles of each... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
complex organizational patterns that emerge in lieu of genuine mirroring when actionable transparency allows people to "break the mirror." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-058.pdf Criminal Recidivism after View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
manufacturing businesses. After describing the nitty-gritty details of scraping together the firm's first purchase in a post-September 11th economy, Williams highlighted a few key takeaways for aspiring entrepreneurs: "In a democracy, your downside is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
I intentionally use the word escape because Nigeria, to me, was like a prison – an emotional, psychological, physical, and intellectual prison. Consider this, I always felt like I was one mistake away from a whooping from my teachers; as... View Details