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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income disqualified them from Medicaid. But I found that one of the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
a cure and maximum impact. Now that his children are young adults, Sternlicht is handing the tradition down. The chairman and CEO of the private alternative investment firm Starwood Capital Group cites as inspiration his own father, a... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
Karen Fonseth (GMP 19, 2015) is CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes (DASCH), a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates more than 50 residential and outreach programs for children and adults with intellectual and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
understanding of the importance of helping one another.” After graduating from HBS with his wife and classmate, Fitzie, Petersmeyer was working for General Atlantic Energy in Denver when tragedy struck in 1985. Fitzie succumbed to cancer, leaving Petersmeyer bereft and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
There to Tuck You In by Marty Epstein Sederman (MBA 1992) (Magination Press) In this children’s picture book, Sederman tells the story of a child whose father travels often for work and provides tips on easing the difficulties that View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
that policymakers concerned with global public health must pay “dramatically greater” attention to vaccine-related issues. He pointed out that 3 million children worldwide die each year from diseases for which vaccines already exist. Even... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
1990s, under the leadership of recently retired CEO Geoffrey Canada, the organization has established a birth-to-college pipeline of best-practice school, community development, and health and wellness programs that today touch the lives of 13,000 View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Rushing Yards
it’s clear that Howard’s earliest influencers were his parents, who grew up the children of sharecroppers yet both graduated from college. That same work ethic and love of education would take Howard to Oxford University as a Rhodes... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
“Today is a pretty exciting day here,” Safe Passage Project executive director Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) says as soon as he picks up the phone in late October 2019. “As of today, we are representing 1,001 children who the US government is... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
accomplished. —Linda Carlson (MBA 1980) via alumni.hbs.edu Making Adoption Accessible Re: Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) I hope the mission and vision of Pathways will capture the hearts of business owners, who will join in the work for the common good of the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
1969), and their six children and spouses. "Beverly and Rod are a wonderful model for us all," Clark noted. "They have had an outstanding career and life together, raised a fine family, and never lost sight of the importance of helping... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
four children were old enough to do basic math, Tisch set up a fund for each of them that was to be used for charity. “Rather than spend money on another iPod,” says Charlotte, 17, Tisch’s youngest daughter, “my sister and I support AIDS... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
positive change,” says Reilly, who did both in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rallying City Year contacts from across the country, she founded City Year Louisiana to help with critical relief and recovery efforts just 100 days after the storm hit. “For many in... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
beauty, or perfection, that just creates a sense of wonder and awe,” she says. “Not all the time, but once in a while, I could feel that. I could touch it.” Today, Sharma recognizes how a self-fulfilling prophecy held back many children... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
with me. After a decade of running Aragon, I’m using the same approaches I use in choosing investments to identify the most effective curriculum for the children in our program, while being mindful of the budgetary constraints of public... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Louis, Illinois, “one of the most impoverished cities in the country, where the children have been neglected for far too long.” A People-Intensive Business One HBS graduate with broad experience in both the practical and the research... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
three students, so the children can work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. The result was immediate, Mendhro says. “One of the Hindu children told us his new best friend was a Muslim... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
to citizenship for dreamers, preserving Obamacare with a public option, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and the right to abortion, recognizing that the decision would be excruciating. “The majority are just trying to make ends meet financially, stay healthy, and give... View Details
Keywords: Government