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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness, and poverty. As one of the 50 largest fundraising charities in the United Kingdom, the organization's trustees wrestle with how to meet the needs of this vast and most vulnerable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes an undeveloped area where View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven children of a Polish immigrant, began... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Seligman gives the reasons why she loves living in Israel, among which are that it is difficult to be bored there and that the country is so informal. Israel is also where she raised her children and found work that widened her horizons.... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
children to another area and starting my post-HBS career while my husband looked for a job in the area. I added that it would all be so easy if I could look into the future and KNOW. He, of course, needed no magic foresight. Took one look... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading cause of death among young children in developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. Heralded in the 1970s as one of the most important medical advancements of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
National Ballet, and their three children live in an apartment nearby that overlooks the Mississippi River. (The family splits their time between New Orleans and Mexico City.) There’s his favorite bakery. There’s the zoo, which his kids... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
that they can significantly reduce negative emotions by simply changing their inner monologue from “I” to “he” or “she.” Try daydreaming about how a favorite mentor, real life hero, or even fictional character would handle a given situation. Experiments with both View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
part-time or taking a career break to care for children doesn't explain the gender gap in senior management; and 4) the vast majority of women anticipated that their careers would rank equally with those of their partners. Many of them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
buried his mother long ago. Did he really want to unearth any more potential pain? Hajim: You know, life is pretty good. 1996, I was running my own company. We had a wonderful house in Greenwich. I had three children and everything was... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Harvard Business School Case 118-055 Michael Belkin: Personal Financing Planning as an Entrepreneur No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-059 The Deckinger Family: The Finances of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Tahilyani, and Anjali RainaHarvard Business School Case 110-001 The case focuses on how Pratham, a non-governmental organization, provided quality education to underprivileged children in India by collaborating with the government. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
children attending school by 25 percent, and boosted agricultural output by two to four times, depending on the area. Now we’re talking to the UN, the World Bank, USAID, and others about scaling the village program to a countrywide level.... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
caregivers—physicians and nurses—on the other.6 Administrators kept emphasizing, "Cut costs, save money." Caregivers replied, "We're not good at cutting costs; we cure children and save lives. That is our mission."... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of gender bias”—that is, the opposite of window... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
pollution on local fauna. That evening, just up the hill in the high-ceilinged dining room of Laurel House, those same children will eat a meal served by a recovering opioid addict whom Marietta hired fresh out of a treatment program.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
more open to mentorship earlier would have been a gift. Now, being a parent, I see mentors for my children coming in all shapes and sizes. It is inspirational. Eyes, hearts, and minds open is a lesson that is valuable for all of us. In... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
so on—anything that is hard to change and correlated to income-earning ability. We use none of these. Tagging is not totally absent, however. In the United States, taxes and transfers depend on old age, the number of young children in a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Selling Our Souls? The Commodification of Children Author:Debora Spar Publication:Conscience 27, no. 3 (autumn 2006): 14-16 Abstract When people choose their sperm online, when they contract with an egg broker or adoption agency, when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and... View Details