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- 01 Dec 2001
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Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
wide-reaching networking system. The club also continues to generate volunteers for the Tax Assistance Program (TAP), a nonprofit venture founded by Robert M. Burke (MBA '99). Through TAP, volunteers help residents in underprivileged...
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Amy Burton
- 01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks
on life and later my career path. At HBS, I started thinking about how many young people never get the chance to go to college for reasons outside their control, including the disadvantage of discrimination. Largely due to a concern for helping this "forgotten half,"...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Amy S. Langer
Langer has served as executive director of the National Alliance for Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), a leading patient advocacy and educational nonprofit based in New York City. “As a patient, I found it very hard to get...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very...
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- 29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner
daughter of Indian immigrants, Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for...
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- 28 Dec 2016
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In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)
Legendary venture capitalist and philanthropist Bill Bowes (MBA 1952) passed away on December 28. Bowes founded San Francisco’s US Venture Partners in 1981 and helped shape some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, including Sun...
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- 05 May 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 01 May 2013
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Warren Luke, MBA 1970
The legacy of the Luke family at HBS begins with K. J. Luke, who earned an MBA in 1938 before returning to Hawaii, where he worked in real estate and founded Hawaii National Bank in 1960. Today, K. J.’s son Warren Luke continues the...
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- 06 Sep 2016
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Horse-Powered Healing
includes experience at Citicorp, Conseco, and the Boston Consulting Group, and, more recently, leadership of an academic research institute. She first became involved in the center as a volunteer strategic consultant, but soon found...
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- 08 May 2015
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A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
positive relationship between risk and return is strong between asset classes (say, stocks and bonds), it is weak within classes, such as the stock market. By analyzing a large sample of historical data from US banks, Baker has found that...
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- 17 Apr 2019
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Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
Aileen Lee (photo by Carlos Chavarría) Lee is the founder of All Raise, a nonprofit that is “dedicated to diversity in founders and funders.” Her entry is written by Kirsten Green, founding partner of both the VC firm Forerunner Ventures...
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- 07 Feb 2019
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New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes
announce a new easing of dress code regulations. Jones started in the role late last year after the previous CEO exited abruptly after investigations found that he had engaged in a “pattern of inappropriate behavior”, leading Jones and...
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- 21 Feb 2018
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
reliance on petroleum-based fertilizers and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the ground. With his extensive background in green businesses, finance, and turnarounds, it seems almost inevitable that Wiviott would help found...
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- 20 Feb 2018
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David Perry’s Green Revolution
decided to pursue something “that would make a positive difference in the world.” That’s when he found Indigo Ag, a company that is commercializing microorganisms that help plants grow. Indigo Ag’s scientists have identified microbes that...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course
education data company BrightBytes found that an estimated 30 percent of ed tech licenses that schools purchased were never used in the classroom, and nearly 98 percent weren’t used “intensely”—that is, students got less than 10 hours of...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes
organizations. The authors analyzed the companies in the top-performing quartile of their sample and discovered that "the better performers follow a pattern that we have found elsewhere in the industrial and industrializing world:...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
professional lives in a new direction. An early pioneer in the high-tech world, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) worked in senior management and chief leadership roles at established corporations and start-ups alike during the 1980s and ’90s, including a stint as View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Broken Link
If the internet was this poor at a private K–8 school in the heart of Silicon Valley, Marwell wondered, what was it like at other schools across the United States? Not much better, he soon found out. One Federal Communications Commission...
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