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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
"the hugging preacher," Coverdale "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." Known fondly as "the hugging preacher," Coverdale "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." Through his work as a community activist... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
that patients may feel are necessary; and squeezing down compensation for talented physicians and hospitals. Indeed, activist American consumers even rebel against perfectly rational HMO tactics like reducing hospital lengths of stay.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
Photography by Robert Schoen Lori Schock, copresident of the HBS Student Association, defines her leadership role as being an activist for students' priorities. “When I go to meetings, I'm constantly thinking of the hundreds of other... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
social-pressure campaigns and legal challenges to the team’s trademark had not been enough to bring about a change. Dan Snyder, the team’s owner of 20 years, dug in. “We will never change the name,” he told the USA Today in 2013. But View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
your hands.” The “aha” moment: A 2010 sabbatical to sail with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, in an activist campaign against whale hunting in Antarctica. “I don’t think I intended to change careers but, afterward, I almost had no... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
(Above: photo by Christina Gandolfo) When Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) thinks about marketing her music, she thinks about it in consumer product terms. A feminist activist and former drummer for Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A., she wants her... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
to go back in person. And my next journey may start with a question like the one that changed my life: When can you get here? Connie Baher, president of US Business Communications, is an advisor to Cambodian Living Arts and the Mekong Cultural Hub, which works with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
fan to be comfortable with consuming musical experiences in a virtual format.” —Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) Dan Morrell: Artist and activist Madame Gandhi got her big break in the music industry when she was invited to join the group MIA on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
environment, social, and governance (ESG). This culminated in the shocking evaporation of $30 billion in market cap after an advertising campaign starring political activist Dylan Mulvaney. Anheuser-Busch’s evolution and its subsequent... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Federation of America Award for Media Service. His most recent book,My Vast Fortune, due out this month, is a memoir that recalls some of his greatest adventures and misadventures with money. It includes accounts of another facet of Tobias, his View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 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 corporate clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
activism. The deepest part of the learning came when the students dug into the phenomenon with alumni who had a range of perspectives.” Suraj Srinivasan, Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration “The SIP provided a compelling opportunity to engage with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
woman's election to the American presidency. In 1997 I cofounded the White House Project - with Barbara Lee, a civic activist working out of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Marie Wilson, president of the Ms. Foundation. We ran a ballot in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Teaching Commission, a nonprofit organization that seeks to change how public school teachers are trained and compensated. A longtime activist for education reform, Gerstner is passionate when discussing this issue. "The leaders in our... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- News
See Us Unite for Change
Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998), the founder of Care.com and TAAF board member, is an executive producer of the event. “Not only are business leaders, activists and talent coming together to support this cause, but we have networks and media... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
hospitals. It seems inevitable Bhargava would start an enterprise aimed at creating social change, having come from a family with a rich history of public service. His father founded the Commerce College in their home state of Rajasthan; his mother was a social View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
benefits of the strong economy." The initiative, which some activists viewed as a challenge for other universities and institutions to emulate, will not only help local nonprofit housing groups directly but will also leverage far greater... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
to publish underground publications throughout the Soviet bloc. As Bronisław Komorowski, a fellow activist who went on to serve as Poland’s president from 2010 to 2015, explains through a translator: “For my father and his generation—the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Woods”—a series of demonstrations involving environmental and First Nations activists blocking the path of logging equipment and chaining themselves to trees and bulldozers. The protests attracted international attention and spread beyond... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous