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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Success began with vegetable lentil soup. Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) was fresh off volunteering in Australian politics as state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria when he was inspired to take action about food waste and hunger. He and his wife, Simone, noticed... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Ending poverty and hunger for millions of people around the world may sound like an insurmountable goal, but that hasn’t stopped Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) from taking it on—and finding success. “By 2020, we will end View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
working on crisis management with city officials. “We are working to end intergenerational poverty within a 100-block radius in central Harlem,” says Owusu-Kesse, who joined HCZ in 2008 and became COO in 2014. “Part of our ethos is,... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government
In his address to HBS graduates at this year’s Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American political culture and the challenge it poses. “Now, the good news is: There is a solution,” he told the crowd, as reported by the Boston... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
using entrepreneurship as a powerful weapon against poverty.” Three years ago, Cohen helped create and fund The Portland Trust to alleviate poverty and ease tensions in the Middle East through economic means. Working out of London, Tel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
School Publishing) Public and philanthropic dollars are not enough to address global issues of poverty and disease, but innovative finance can bring governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources to bear on the common good. Keohane... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Manby (MBA '85) Courtesy Joel Manby Web Extra Undercover Boss: Watch the Joel Manby Episode As I reached out to shut off my alarm at 3 a.m. — wake-up time for my first day as a street washer — I wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?” Approached by CBS for its... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
the rising social unrest, what role do you envision HBS having in creating a better future for a sustainable economy? —Maureen Austin (MBA 1992) I've always believed that business is a force for good in society. Think of the billions of people who have been lifted out... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
new century.” What strikes you most about China’s economic development over the last few decades? If you had told me in 1979 that 350 million Chinese would be able to lift themselves out of poverty into something that resembles a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
decisions managers must make.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Spend at least as much time focusing on people as you do on numbers.” ON LEADERSHIP “Too many of our leaders fail to translate macroeconomic trends into human experience. Increasing worldwide View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- News
Wealth Creation Needs a Monumental Re-Think
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
Last week, The Giving Pledge announced that forty of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to give away at least half their fortunes to charitable organizations. Cofounded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the pledge includes the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural development. Most of the poorest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
improving education in Muslim nations, to help people make objective decisions and have more opportunity; reducing poverty, which is a breeding ground for resentment, hopelessness, and extremist teachings; and empowering Muslim women, a critical step in reducing View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
100 students. “Most of these young people grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” Condo notes. “We learn about them from their high schools or community leaders, who know they have extraordinary potential.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
as chairman of Millennium Promise (MP), he helps lead an organization with the vision of ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2025. Despite this shift, Walker sees more similarities than differences between his careers in the private and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
realized that this previously black-and-white issue did have some grey. Eradication of child labor would require a comprehensive look at poverty and options for education. This made me rethink some of my other hard-line stances, and has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
which now consumes more and more of society’s resources, particularly as people live longer? Global poverty is a huge issue as the demand for a more prosperous life increases everywhere. And then there is global security. So there are... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson