Building A Culture Of Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2006
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A New Path for Alumnae

responsibility, but also insisted on autonomy and flexibility. Is on-ramping predominantly a women’s issue? Fewer of our male alums, less than 10 percent, take time out from their full-time careers to deal... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Jan 2017
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Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News

solutions journalism and describes how his organization is training journalists in its techniques. “I am president of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is a three-year-old independent nonprofit... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City

in a thoughtful discussion of effective nonprofit boards. The other 17 breakout sessions, all of which were led by HBS faculty and many of which... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Student Conferences, at a Glance

parlor, as an early source of entrepreneurial influence. Her advice? “Do for yourself. Do for your people. Provide a quality product.” Cyberposium Building Leaders for... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2019
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Turning Point: One Story at a Time

decision to move to India for a career opportunity that came up in my family’s business. Being the CEO at the age of 30 of a publicly listed... View Details

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

most importantly, a platform is something you can build on. Cummings developed the Orchestra Place project, the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and numerous other... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

Mingshan. Imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Yin discovered his true vocation in the early 1990s, after the liberalization of the Chinese economy. In just fifteen years he has built up View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Mar 2018
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A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

people’s health and well-being,” she says. At HBS, Hunt saw her MBA coursework as an opportunity to build on what she had learned and to make a difference through diversity and... View Details

04 Jun 2025
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Slice of Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details

18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

expectations-- and then how long does it take for you to decide that this is now going to roll out nationally? Cunningham: Well, this is one where, again, I mentioned we're changing the culture and moving much faster. So we actually took... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

through the ministry’s work, launched a $1.3 billion economic resilience plan, representing 7 percent of GDP, the second largest in Africa (second to South Africa). Senegal was one View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

02 Dec 2019
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A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding

in Chile, despite his parents’ objections. The experience interning at a Santiago company, practicing his Spanish, and interacting with people from another culture was “like an awakening,” says Barry,... View Details

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

of the country’s health care system proved to be a problem that Oishi could not ignore; Platanus and Mediva represent her response. Nineteen years in, they have engineered... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and View Details

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference

women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Mar 2006
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End of Campaign Celebrated

managerial decisions they will confront in business. Said Paine, “It’s not just a matter of teaching. Ethics must be built into the culture to work. That is the challenge we’re... View Details