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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
together people from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to open up the dialogue around mental illness and help build awareness of the five indicators of emotional suffering: change in personality, agitation, withdrawal, decline in... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Susan Hamilton
wonder how she feels about someone else raising her kids." "Why did she bother to have kids if she’s never going to see them!" I have downplayed the seriousness of my career to avoid the (sometimes imagined) judgment of teachers, doctors, and... View Details
- Web
Elaine MacDonald Archives | Social Enterprise
blog series, which highlights the insp... Bay Area Alumni Discuss the Role of Technology in Social Change, for Good or for Ill Elaine MacDonald 10 Apr 2019 On March 14, 2019, over 20 Bay Area HBS alumni gathered for Northern California’s... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
attention to mental health, it was data that shaped the Goodness Web itself: One in five adults in the United States suffers from a mental health illness each year, and 46 percent will have a mental health condition during their lifetime.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Sharon Liszanckie
forecasts, highlighting the huge, and NECESSARY, role they must play to improve inequality. I hope to learn, from for-profit examples, how organizations resistant to systemic changes are led to embrace these changes, and then apply these insights to what is our... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ross Galloway
mental illness and driven him to this (thank God) unsuccessful suicide attempt. Every day since, I’ve wondered what I could have done differently. I always settle on: deeper listening. Despite continued strong performance at work, Dad was... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
diseases—heart disease, renal disease, celiac, diabetes, cancer—are influenced by the food we eat,” Burrough notes. By providing freshly made meals with ingredients customized to meet specific nutritional needs, Mom’s Meals helps seniors to stay healthy or manage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
executive to New York playwright has had a number of surprises. He left the corporate world after successful stints with Coca-Cola and American Express to help take care of his ill father and never went back. Turning to his creative side,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Brian Sykes
Franciscan, I yearn to revitalize the city. Provide the mentally ill with help they so desperately need. Build affordable housing. Purge the sidewalks of broken glass and human waste. I’ll make San Francisco a place people are proud to... View Details
- Web
1.5 Attendance | MBA
appointments or other emergency childcare needs. Observance of religious beliefs. Personal illness (see below for details). Recruiting (see below for details). Required military service. Serious illness in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ian McLean
how easy it was to light a fire with one match- something he previously didn't think was humanly possible. I want to make my children laugh when I teach them how to blow underwater bubbles in the pool. To make work colleagues laugh when we look back in disbelief at how... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
for mental health, an organization that can increase awareness and reduce the stigma of illness as well as rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field, especially for... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. Hudson had spent the first 25 years of her career in the corporate world—the first 10 years in consumer goods and then 15 in the medical technology sector.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
Lessons from a COVID Survivor
Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) When Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) fell ill with COVID-19, she wasn’t prepared for the physical and emotional rollercoaster that the ensuing weeks would bring. On day 16 of her illness,... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
a critically ill loved one without this same level of benefits. I had inadvertently created classes of employees — and by doing so, had done my part to contribute to America’s inequality problem. The new policy gives warehouse employees... View Details
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Physical Disabilities & Learning Differences | MBA
forward to working with any student who requests an accommodation. Prospective students with questions about accessibility at HBS are encouraged to reach out to Aldo E. Pena Moses , Associate Director, MBA Student & Academic Services. Support Policies & Procedures... View Details
- Portrait Project
Josh Solera
who was too ill to come outside, but who loved our food. I fetched his soup and sandwich, and he handed me a hundred-dollar bill. "Keep it," he told me. "Use it to grab your dreams and don't let go. And when you are my age,... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
day rather than three or four. In addition, inspectors could plan early-in-the-day visits to the highest-risk facilities, such as elementary school cafeterias or assisted-living facilities, where residents are more vulnerable to the perils of foodborne View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
social ills than government. Trust is the central issue for global institutions. CEOs have to speak out on societal issues, because their employees expect to work for a company with values consistent with their own. Wolverine, the... View Details