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- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
Ed Shartar in Atlanta. “The scholarship program supports the community in a way that is directly linked HBS and Harvard. By teaching nonprofit leaders ‘how to fish,’ as opposed to ‘giving them fish,’ the scholarships benefit the impacted... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
same-sex marriages. It's no surprise that Scher has dedicated her life to social causes. A native of Clifton, New Jersey, she grew up in a family that was "liberal and concerned." "My parents taught me that individuals can make an View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
enrollment hits related to the pandemic, including a 7-percent decline here at CCRI. Community college students are more likely to come from low-income communities and communities of color, precisely the groups that have been disproportionately View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 May 2013
- News
Scott M. Sperling, MBA 1981 & Laurene M. Sperling, MBA 1982
enables us to help people through this school, which has had an enormous impact on our lives," says Scott. "HBS was very formative for us in contributing to our success in so many areas. Helping others go through that is enormously... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Schoar (University of Chicago Press) This compilation of articles explains how a country’s institutional differences and cultural considerations affect the role that entrepreneurs play in its economy. The contributors consider how environmental factors of View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
it can shorten the time an individual needs to develop some of the traits we look for in a manager. It's often an indicator of a strong desire to learn and grow, because in most cases people have interrupted a career to return to school. View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
shocks in the system like the one we saw earlier this year.” How has the pandemic impacted the people you serve and how are you and the organization helping address these challenges? “We are serving more people than ever before, which... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
customers involved by setting up a program where people subscribed monthly to delivery of Ka-Viti Water and, in exchange, we'll use some of those proceeds to help make sure that individual students can go to school and stay in school. “So... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
economists, organizational scientists, and demographers show that socially diverse groups––those with a diversity of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation––are more innovative than homogeneous groups,” Coleman says. “By interacting with View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation reports in 1959 had an enormous View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
upon educating leaders who would have a positive impact on the world. The article remains a classic and has since been republished several times. Zaleznik’s take on the subject of leadership was informed by his training and certification... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
individuals and organizations around the world. Additionally its webinars, impact labs, and online insight centers support sector-wide creative problem solving. Peppered throughout any conversation with Tom... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
attract and enroll outstanding students, we also know that many future leaders don't think of HBS as one of their options," says Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions. "We need to reach people who may not realize the positive View Details
Keywords: Cindy Olnick
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
define the practice of management. They also delve into some of the most challenging issues facing society. As these individuals and our students engage with each other, the effect is contagious: our students learn that leadership in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
life-sized, contemporaneous individuals? I think our age has many figures of great impact in addition to Bill Gates. Other interesting people of his era have risen to the fore, individuals like Oprah... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
impacts our communities and the ordinary people trying to address this unprecedented global challenge. “It is an effort to bridge the massive divide between what the experts know and public opinion in a way that empowers View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
of the highly educated, Wallace says the move has boosted the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and turned into a competitive advantage. Ovia is among a handful of companies that are rethinking their screening process, for reasons that range from... View Details