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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
market-based solutions to difficult problems. "Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet," says Goodwin. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he led the establishment of a nationwide recycling program that currently provides income and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
bring along more successful people, and you’ll have more career endurance. Thirty-three million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. What can good leaders do to make sure that workers are engaged and happy? The Great... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Sep 2019
- News
Leading Schools that Change Lives
neighborhoods, starting nonprofits to support education for girls in Rwanda, and guiding strategy in Boston’s Catholic schools. When he stepped into his current job in 2011, the chaos and noise included several recently settled sexual... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- News
Analyzing Homelessness
his company relocated to a site near a shelter and soup kitchen on the city’s west side, where many Cicero employees volunteer or work pro bono on strategy development. He finds cause for optimism in his work with city and state task forces on criminal justice reform,... View Details
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
In August, 2014, a horrific ISIS attack on Yazidi towns in Northern Iraq created a humanitarian crisis that Canadian executive Michel Aziza (MBA 1991) couldn’t ignore. “This is the latest chapter in a long history of persecution for the Yazidis,” explains Aziza, who... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
achieving it. Upon graduation, Cohen joined Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), a management consulting firm in Mountain View, California, that specializes in operations work for technology-driven companies. It took her a few years to realize that “all I was doing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Baker Library Gets New Executive Director
preparing for the reopening next summer, Kennedy has started work on a three-year strategic plan. “Baker serves a variety of customers, and they all use information differently and connect with people differently,” Kennedy explains. “Meeting their needs in the context... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
In Brief
billion in revenue. It’s the toughest job he’s ever had. Letters to the Editor; Gore at HBS; Robert Anthony Remembered; 2006 Annual Report; Jailhouse Entrepreneurs; Avon CEO; of Note; Winter Break; Steve Ballmer; Alumni Bookshelf; Ideas... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES Perez and Zaldivar continue to invest in Latinx business ventures as they did at Palladium, understanding this community’s strength and influence in spite of the COVID-19-related health issues and View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published in 2004." Since then, Schultz has visited some 400 communities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Research Brief: Great Expectations
The narrative surrounding employees who are passionate about their jobs holds so much sway in today’s workplace that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Ultimately, if you believe in a passionate person, they will perform better,”... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
example, a research study by professors Mike Luca and Deepak Malhotra that examined gun-purchase waiting periods has the potential to reduce gun-related deaths. Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) drew on her MBA experience and HBS network to help farmers and create View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
institution in Ontario about two years ago; they said he could not live with other roommates. He was aggressive, he was violent. Within three months, he was off all the meds that he was on; he has a job working in the community; he has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Redefining Work Life
Fudge Image courtesy Business Week When Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) found that her career was overtaking her life, she decided to take a sabbatical. Not the most unusual of decisions, except that her job happened to be running a $5 billion... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Fall Reunions
corporate governance, to finding a job during difficult economic times. A seminar on “What Really Matters in Life,” organized by the School, was offered to the Classes of 1968 and 1973. Individual classes also arranged their own... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
his community. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” says Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were, at first, dimmed by a series of tough breaks. It would take encounters with a produce vendor who gave him a View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
kids); another is Arrive, a venture powering the circular economy that allows any brand or retailer to rent their inventory. No place is perfect, Berardi concedes. Yet he’s optimistic the local public-private discourse is healthy enough to address Miami’s challenges,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
On any given day in his job as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012) might find himself analyzing funding sources with the nonprofit organization’s CFO, lunching with a student mentee,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
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Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
game-changer for me,” says Sergio. “That was critical in my decision to pursue an MBA at HBS.” The former engineering major from Chicago left her operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston... View Details