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- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
challenge: keeping Merck’s antibiotic factory running after school closures forced employees with children to stay home. Omar Ishrak, Medtronic CEO, leads a global company of 100,000 people. His greatest challenge currently is ramping... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
popular provisions included under Obamacare; it prohibits health insurers from denying coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, or charging them more money, and allows children to remain on their parents’ health plans until age... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
2013 with one product: a shelf-stable chocolate milkshake so tasty that children might not realize nutritious whole foods like vegetables had been snuck in there too. Within two years, Sneakz’s distribution had grown to more than 1,000... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
going into science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
children the benefit of our success but not the burden of it. I think what they would say is that the constant refrain from us has been, ‘If you’ve done the best that you can, then we will celebrate with you no matter what the outcome... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
Trade card from 1833 advertising "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." (Baker Library Historical Collections) From the time of her marriage in 1743 until her death in 1765, Sarah Chamberlain, wife of Nathaniel Chamberlain, a blacksmith in Pembroke, Massachusetts,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
country. It becomes part of your value system.” Warm up with Rawdon’s winter wear for children Previous Next Quiet your mind Jamie Hanna (MBA ’98) Founder, Zobha “I wanted to build a brand that inspires people to be the best versions of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
have plenty of money in my pocket and healthy maize for my family to eat," Mustapha said then. "My children are already looking healthier—I can barely lift my eight-year-old. He's the fattest in the village." On a continent more likely to... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
organization website and resource center. References [1] Over 40 countries have achieved malaria-free certification as of January 2024 (WHO) [2] Children under five years of age constituted 76% of 608,000 deaths from malaria in 2022... View Details
- 19 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities
honored and pronounced correctly as a child, Shekeyla wrote "A Name Like Mine: A Rhyming Story About Diversity & Inclusion," in order to "help young children with unique names feel more confident," and also as a way to help teach... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
the time, I'd never heard of a physician doing such a thing," Slavin recalls. Slavin's specialty is adult internal medicine, which keeps him involved in everything "except children and surgery." It's deeply satisfying work, he says, to... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
factors play into workers’ decisions to go back to work.” The complex cost-benefit analysis for workers How much savings a person has or whether someone has children may be factors. Using more detailed and widespread analysis of how... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to meeting the health and education... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
longer-term kids have returned to say “thank you.” We still consider one boy — now a man — part of the family. In 2001, DD and I started thinking about the Peace Corps. Our children were grown, and we were free to do what we both had... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
Agee Professor of Social Ethics and the acclaimed author of 50 books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Children of Crisis, agreed to offer a course he had taught elsewhere at Harvard, where he let students talk about literature. These... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
conviction that taking action is essential to who we are and for the future of our children is what will make change happen.” She added that the “window for action is short, just two years,” according to speakers. “I think everyone now... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
in the 1990s. It was, in the satisfied words of one attendee, "not your typical business conference." Buttner began the morning by urging women Ð who are more likely to raise children alone or survive their spouses than are men Ð to... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
They didn’t know anyone there and did little research before the move. But stories of the city’s recovery—and the HBO series Tremé, which captured its rollicking lifestyle—fired their imagination. With two small children in tow, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
dentist,” he recalls thinking, “but the process is not working.” Singh, who spent his formative years in Canada and his adulthood in the United States, had recently moved back to his native India so that his children could be raised among... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
involved, for example, in a corporate program in one region of China where we work to encourage children to go to school-a campaign that also subsidizes the cost of books and transportation." As part of her commitment to quality, Yang has... View Details