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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
from the management consulting firm Accenture to help HBS study the shortage of workers for “middle skills” jobs—those that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a college degree. “There are large pools of unemployed View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
the largest countries by population in the world. "Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe will be responsible for a growing share of our business," he asserts. "To drive top-line growth,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
about 10 percent. The general happiness of the population suffers, too, even among people who do not personally experience job loss or reduction in income. For behavioral economists and politicians, among others, these findings raise the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
deal sources, right? The people, the investment banks, the middle market investment banks who provide deals—and underlying all of that is two critical problems, right? One is there's just pervasive, unconscious bias. It's not intentional. It's just that the industry... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
China, saw how social e-commerce operated there, and identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America. “In Latin America, only 6 percent of the population buys online, and as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic,... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
post-secondary education, yet only 51 percent of the state’s population has any post-secondary credential. Community colleges are essential in addressing this disparity. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, an educator at Northern Virginia... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved to hotels, and jail View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
was that: ‘Five hundred years ago, it was generally accepted that only 10 percent of people had the mental capacity to read and write. We look back and think that’s ridiculous. But if I asked you today what percent of the population has... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
legislatures and the politicians. But it's a huge engine that I believe is just getting bigger and bigger. But a big part of that are the people that are on the ground. You look at a place like Saratoga where I'm from, every summer the View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
perspectives that can co-exist. Fundamentally, it’s about building empathy. The fact that two-thirds of study abroad is still in western Europe—while 80% of the world’s population is living in Asia, Africa, and Latin America—doesn’t make... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
that Ant Financial, the fintech arm of the Alibaba Group, has approximately 1.5 billion users across its various platforms—a number that exceeds the combined populations of North America and Western Europe. (With a valuation of $60... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
population of poor, underserved people and a severe shortage of skills and capacity, some resourceful private enterprises have found a way to deliver high-quality health care, at ultra-low prices, to all patients who need it. This book... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
longest longitudinal study on happiness ever done. And although our wealth has tripled, although our safety has increased, murder rates at an all-time low, people can go further and faster, more educated, happiness has been flat. It's about 20% of the population. It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
two programs in particular: The “one cow per poor family” program intended to get every poor family in Rwanda a cow—thereby increasing the amount of milk, protein, and fertilizer available to the average family, which sounded good on paper. But this was in the most... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
dedication to a sense of what is just and fair that explains why she now finds herself in the trenches of local politics, fighting to shift a culture of patronage and mismanagement that has been decades in the making. Located in Lackawanna County, Scranton, with a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
know how to do stuff. I mean, they’re coming from farms. These are kids who are very practical,” says Nolan. In addition to tapping into the student population and hosting a thriving maker space downtown, Louisville has a long industrial... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
recognized children as dependents, right? And I think it's only been more recently that employers are recognizing with an aging workforce, but also with an aging population that if they don't lean in to senior care and supporting... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
jobs, and justice. All of our focus areas are looking at vulnerable populations and helping people find a path out of poverty. And the initiative that you saw was GetCalFresh, which is one of our big food initiatives in California, to... View Details