Asian Community Development Corporation - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Air Transportation; Transportation; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

13 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose - Justice System Reform, Education Parity, Health & Wellness Access, and View Details

11 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Career Resources to Consider Before You Arrive at HBS

and bosses? Broadening and solidifying your existing personal and professional relationships will be very beneficial to your job search, whatever path you choose. In fact, approximately 20% of the HBS MBA Class of 2015 reported to HBS Career & Professional View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Beantown as a Beacon

yet motivated workers were stranded below the job ladder. In 2000, he founded Year Up, which offers low-income young adults a yearlong program of corporate training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Based in Boston, Year Up has now... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and professional View Details

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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

culture within his research and manufacturing enterprise—building an interdisciplinary community devoted to the technical and artistic excellence of the new photographic medium. A key contributor to the View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

inform her engagement in social change.Yuille’s diverse professional formation — federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public... View Details

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

help with these problems. Somehow this bridge has to be built,” says Goodwin, who until earlier this month was CEO of Executives Without Borders (ExecWB), a sort of facilitator for corporate social responsibility. (Goodwin just announced... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

began to change in 2009, when a community activist challenged Shumway to get more deeply involved in addressing the issue. He responded by applying the same evidence-based problem-solving approach Cicero uses with its View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

and increasing societal inequality are. The invisible hand is, by definition, invisible. Also, tragically, in a capitalist society (but really in any system), individual or corporate greed can run amuck. Simply put, some will choose to... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

all-or-nothing situations. Build buy-in, recognizing that offering rational argument and inspiring passion are both essential for gaining and maintaining momentum. And develop upward lines of communication... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

Profile

Fatou Bintou Sagnang

could do the aerospace research she once only dreamed about. "I grew up developing a love for space and astrophysics, airplanes, anything that flies really," Fatou says. But after two years of research at Princeton University,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Tech

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

of Wall Street rather than developing nations. And the crisis raises questions about the development policies of Asian nations: Did too-close "crony" relations... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

humanities class of the semester, he met Fern, his future wife. “We were married four hours after we both graduated from Kansas State (Ross earned a BS in mathematics and Fern earned a BS in business education) and immediately moved to Florida, where I was involved in... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

21 Aug 2019
News

Analyzing Homelessness

recently named one of the 50 fastest-growing consulting firms in the US. Using the same evidence-based approach that helps Cicero’s corporate clients develop effective strategies, Shumway looks at “what... View Details

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

come. Related Reading: A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility When CEOs Become Activists What do you... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

29 May 2019
News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Clubs News Clubs News A team from HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hit the road in March with a goal of bringing career education and coaching services to alumni in 27 cities in the U.S. and Canada over a 12-week span. The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Profile

Ravi Belani

were more than eighty South Asians in my class, and a huge number of entrepreneurs, at least a hundred. Every idiosyncratic interest you have is represented in significant numbers – no other school can match them.” As a venture... View Details

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