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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty by Aneel Karnani (DBA 1981) (Palgrave Macmillan) Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Ron Shaich’s (MBA 1978) first venture, a cookie shop in downtown Boston, evolved into Au Bon Pain. His latest—Panera Cares—allows customers to pay only what they can afford at the popular restaurants he owns, Panera Bread. There’s a box for money—and a suggested... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
Sally Wood (MBA 1983) is COO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a nonprofit dedicated to teaching economics and personal finance to students from kindergarten through high school. Based in New York City, CEE trains more than 55,000 teachers nationwide to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
replicated elsewhere. Here are a few Boston-born ideas highlighted by the event's panelists that appear ready for export. TWO BIRDS, ONE JOB Attacking poverty and a national labor shortage While serving as a Big Brother, Internet... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Lawrence University Professor “I think the American people are dying to be asked to help solve some of these problems.” —Meg Whitman (MBA ’79), former President & CEO, eBay Inc. “Fear caused by greed needed to be bailed out with $700 billion; fear caused by View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States seek to reduce View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
JP Morgan Chase Opens New Office in Dublin
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Borders, and Goodwin led a group of his classmates to make the dream a reality. Why did you decide to become the CEO of Executives Without Borders? In my time overseas, I witnessed extreme poverty but saw few working on solutions that... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
weeks ago. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be on view through July 19. The Dean Collection showcases Parks’ work from his days taking portraits in early 1940s Chicago to his powerful images of the Civil Rights Movement and of View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong
helped clients gain market share.’ I wanted to look back on my career and say, ‘I did my part to make the world a better place.’ “I talked to a lot of people about work that they did and what they found satisfying, and I realized that the issue that was most important... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- News
Juan Salgado Honored for Immigrant Education Efforts
Matthew Desmond also was honored with a MacArthur grant. His work has explored the effects of eviction on the urban poor and has exposed how eviction is actually a cause of poverty rather than a symptom. Watch this video profile from the... View Details
- 25 Nov 2020
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, Who Led the World Bank for 10 Years, Dies at 86
- 30 Oct 2019
- News
Creating Agents of Change
health, education, and empowerment through life skills and employment. “Success for us is that, by the time the young adults leave our program at age 24, they're living above the level of poverty in their country. In most cases, this is... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
Baker: Chronicler of dirty money. In his new book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Raymond W. Baker (MBA ’60) chronicles the widespread illegal flow of money around the world through schemes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
worship. Those words, and Mom’s commitment to making our lives better, continue to motivate me. I hope I can continue to use these experiences, having lived on both sides of poverty and finance, in corporate board rooms and communities,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living standards for the average American.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
infrastructure (health care, education, pensions)—especially for rural people for whom none of this has ever been free or even widely available at a decent standard. To be clear, roads, railways, and the like have helped people physically move out of View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook, Illinois, headquarters to let their... View Details