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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
trillion dollars in spending could have begun significant repair of the Social Security system, or hired 15 million public school teachers, or built 8 million housing units, or underwritten 120 million children in Head Start, or offered... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
Growing up, Steve Barger spent his summers picking crops in Oregon until he was old enough to work in the cannery his father ran. A graduate of Williams College, he has two children and is married to his hometown sweetheart. Barger is... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
operations, and a majority of couples with school-age children both have jobs. "These working parents are logging on after the kids are asleep and answering emails before they wake. Bosses must acknowledge how incredibly hard this has... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
50 years of marriage, together the Krafts left a lasting legacy through their philanthropic endeavors, particularly in their work to help underserved children and to further cancer research. Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977 Administrator, US... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
his career decisions and professional passions. “I grew up the youngest of five children raised by a single mother,” he shared. “To lift my family out of poverty, my mother worked two full-time jobs while re-credentialing herself as a... View Details
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library
and early 1960s, as the country was experiencing tremendous economic growth, the employment rates for graduates of the program grew to 75 percent or more for both single and married graduates. Statistics showed a rising number of married women returning to work after... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
Gutierrez, works as a social entrepreneur focusing on youth issues, and their three children attend school. While continuing to steward the tropical resources that are central to EARTH’s curriculum, Condo and his colleagues are intent on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Iceland for eight years, said that there were children in Iceland under eight years of age who believed that only a woman could be president. Just imagine the possibilities! What led to the formation of the CWWL? As I interviewed these... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
(including recent winners of the wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon who raced to victory in special chairs fabri_cated by an Invacare subsidiary), arranging for them to visit with children with disabilities in schools and... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
through—like Elsie Bailey's faith as a high school principal that inner-city children can learn, and that her teachers can teach them. If the people in charge rely only on themselves as heroes who can rescue any situation, while focusing... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
sponsoring a child there. A bunch of people at our church—you know, 100 some people at our church had been sponsoring children in this village in Tanzania, and I was one of eight people from our church who got to go on a visit to see all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
Winners With everyone else in the house asleep, Tracy spent all night online. She found pictures of children with muscular dystrophy employing something called the Gowers' sign to get off the floor, using their hands to push themselves... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
freedom ring (safely) Since the start of the pandemic, people have been making decisions with limited data about questions as basic as whether to get a haircut and as complex as whether to send children to school. Safety guidelines... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
children and eight grandchildren, Marina Picasso ended up with some 10,000 of her grandfather's productions, and sent waves across the art world in February by announcing her intention to make many of them available for sale to the public... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
(libertarianism). Think of parents fashioning choices for children in ways that lead to acceptable choices instead of commanding them to do something. Contrast this with what happened in the related housing and credit meltdowns. Borrowers... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Paris Wallace
Eric Boutin in 2008 in his last year at HBS. Good Start Genetics is now a successful late stage venture with more than 150 employees. The company offers a fertility diagnostic that allows parents to determine if their children are at risk... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
greatest joys is watching the next generation of youngsters at the Wild Center learn about one of the country’s great natural places and maybe starting on a path to helping solve one of the world’s big problems. “I love watching the children,” he says. “Particularly... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sense here that, if there is a problem, you don’t just complain and wait for government to step in,” he continues. “It’s on your conscience to solve it. That’s something we want our children to embrace. One of our daughters is in college... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
is almost 100 percent effective in protecting children’s teeth against decay, only about one-third of kids get it. By contrast, in the minority of dental plans that provide comprehensive care for a yearly fixed fee, nearly all children... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Cummins, he helped establish India's first college of engineering for women, and at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly a million teachers in India to use computers. He's... View Details