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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice on a distant piece... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HBS assistant professor Charles King III investigates whether, indeed, cigarette companies advertise to magazine readers between the ages of 12 and 17. As King and coauthors Michael Siegel, of... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
interesting one, and there are some discrepant findings around how people respond to what you might think of as dual-motive behaviors, which have some benefit to others but also some benefit to the self. Public radio is a View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
really hard to earn and to keep the public’s trust.” Beyond regulating the region’s financial industry, Jones and her team are engaged with educating the public to increase financial literacy. They do this with online resources,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
a small one. See hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7271.html. The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World by Joseph L. Badaracco (Harvard Business Review Press) Leading responsibly is crucial in today's uncertain world. Badaracco,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
December 2015 Deconstructing Draper Re: Golden State of Mind I admire Tim Draper (MBA 1984) for his sustained interest in rebooting public education in California. Too few HBS alums are engaged with public... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
HGSE’s strength in school and instructional leadership. Research shows a high need for this type of training. “There are about 200,000 principals and assistant principals in the United States, and half of them have little or no access to View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
is a good case study. A few years ago, California was in complete crisis, fiscally. One option was to become a more “competitive” state—lower taxes, lower spending, “lean and mean.” The other perspective was, “No, that’s not who... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s interest in US transportation and infrastructure began well before Boston’s record-setting 2015 snowstorms focused national attention on the downside of deferred maintenance for aging public transit systems. In... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
Singapore government, for its part, thought that was a good move too, but felt that Yeo could best serve his country by earning a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Margaret Crotty (MBA 2000) is CEO of Partnership with Children, which provides counseling services and family support to public schools in New York City. In this interview, she reflects on the influences that put her on this path. “Two of... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office, and in a stroke of good fortune, he made accessibility to toilets a top priority in one of his earliest public addresses. “People may criticize me for talking... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
teaching her four-year-old how to read, Ryan’s mother visited his public kindergarten and realized he wouldn’t receive the level of learning he deserved, so she enrolled him in a local parochial school. “I couldn’t have had better... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
happen and that people like us must help lead such change. What does your company do regarding social enterprise, philanthropy, public service, and community involvement? Davey Scoon: At Colonial, we have an Outstanding Volunteer Program,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
environmentalist. He and I spent a lot of time together discussing the larger environmental challenges of our time. He was a big thinker. He was very encouraging and supportive of my desire to shift my career more in the direction of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley