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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
in her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana; that she graduated cum laude from Dartmouth; or the fact that she garnered several sales and marketing awards at Merck & Company, Inc., where she worked for five years before coming to HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
values: being patient, kind, humble, respectful, selfless, forgiving, honest, committed, and putting the welfare and well-being of our guests and employees first. I was paired with employees whom I had never met face-to-face. Each had a... View Details
- 31 Aug 2017
- News
Sir Harpal Kumar: Making A Difference
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
But questions remain: How much of this is a Massachusetts miracle, and how much is mirage? The outlines of the plan are simple: According to what’s known as the “individual mandate,” nearly all residents over 18 are required to obtain health-insurance coverage, either... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- News
Seeking "big solutions" to increase the value of nature for business and society
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is leading the World Wildlife Fund to "connect the dots" between business and societal goals to increase our perception of the value of the natural world. (Published July 2014) View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
the pharmaceutical needs of emerging markets and has a strong presence in more than 40 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are a very purpose-driven team and believe in empowering the fight for health and View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention. "If employees go off View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 25 Feb 2013
- News
Among millions, a blank slate
Keywords: Professors Tarun Khanna, John D. Macomber; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
second piece of data from a 2017 edition of Journal of Democracy is that when you ask people if democracy is essential, of those who grew up or fought during the Second World War, nearly 75 percent of them say democracy is absolutely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Chelsea Green Publishing) Do Americans have the right to get their food from farmers, neighbors, and local producers? Yes, say Gumpert... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
and public housing. Although heartening, Grogan and Proscio admit that these positive trends are fragile first steps and "entirely reversible, if treated with indifference." "The point is not that poverty has been abolished, or will be,"... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based Eos Foundation, a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
identify risks and issues, and develop the business case. The two-month recruiting process for the first cohort included reaching out to organizations such as Autism South Australia, targeting verbal individuals age 20 to 30, either with some View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
career or social enterprise to business career and social enterprise.” Adebo and Hollins are two of 161 recipients of a Social Enterprise fellowship, and they shared their experiences as fellows on the Social Enterprise Initiative's blog.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and research associate Daniel Penrice. How to Harness... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
beginnings of what he now terms his "obsession." Since leaving his day job as a fundraiser for the University of Massachusetts last year, Walling has produced about a painting a week from his studio at home in suburban Boston. His wife, Susie, who runs job-training... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
In an electoral season marked by voter invective toward “government” and practically anyone associated with it, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) reminds us that there are public servants out there who are better people than we the people lately seem to deserve. Jefferson, who... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how... View Details