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- 24 Apr 2014
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Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
Massachusetts. Currently, the foundation is partnering with school districts to provide universal free breakfast, after the bell rings, in schools that serve a large proportion of low-income children. “People are getting enough calories,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
company, Chertavian turned this concept into reality in 2000 by launching Year Up, a job-training program for urban youth ages 18–24. By providing participants with technical and professional skills as well as six-month corporate... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
Scorpio is now a case study at Harvard Business School. Mahindra’s contributions to business and society in India include his founding, in 1996, of Project Nanhi Kali, which provides primary education to underprivileged girls and furthers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Patterns of Extraordinary Careers coauthored by James M. Citrin (MBA ’86) (Crown Business) Citrin and coauthor Rick Smith, both executive recruiters at Spencer Stuart, provide valuable guidance and helpful tips on how to transform a good... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability
and the addition of new content to an existing course, as well as some streamlining of other offerings. The new course, which will be offered in 25-30 sessions, will focus on leader-ship, values, and corporate accountability. It will View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
with the conference, Lisle says, but also financially supported it and provided speakers. Lisle witnessed the connections that began to form as a result. “The Google staffer knows of the Netflix staffer who is working on accessibility,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
different worlds. I run a nonprofit, but I apply all for-profit principles to it. Consequently, we achieve great outcomes with very low cost, per participant, for our unique niche—using sailing to overcome any adversity in life,” he says. Callahan’s education at HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Affluent in China and India by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, and David Michael (Harvard Business Review Press) Silverstein and his BCG colleagues in China and India provide the first comprehensive profile... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
job but can’t make ends meet? —Rick Holliday (MBA 1963) OAKES: Yes, their needs are quite different. For individuals with mental illness or disabilities or who have experienced homelessness, we have learned that just providing an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
crowdsourcing, correct? Yes, you can post any sort of task—whether it's editing a document, providing website copy, or verifying directory entries—and people with the abilities and time available will bid on it. Companies like Elance and... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Experience of a Lifetime
banker in Miami, Florida. Today, he's the CEO of Hunter Global Investors, a money management firm he founded just two weeks after 9/11. "The HBS experience was transformational for me," Buchan says. "Case studies provided a framework to... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Cares, and Big Picture Learning, Math Hoops is a fast-paced board game that challenges student teams to solve math problem on a 24-second clock. Now in use in schools across the country and tied to Common Core state standards, the game is supported by NBA and WNBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Having a Ball
and social service organizations, Stafford, who grew up as one of twelve children of a Baptist minister, invited his guests from all over the country and provided beauty treatments and formal evening wear for two gala balls he organized... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
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William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Silicon Valley’s burgeoning venture capital industry. Founding U.S. Venture Partners in 1981 provided Bowes the opportunity to help create, rather than merely finance, initiatives at their earliest stages. The firm has shaped the... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
November, the School offered a new Executive Education program, Families in Business: From Generation to Generation. The five-day program, designed for teams of two to eight members of a family business, examines pivotal issues and View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Open Market
started with Robinhood Financial eliminating commissions; that really changed the game. A lot of other brokerages followed suit, but then we introduced other new offerings like fractional shares. And beyond that, how can firms like Robinhood View Details
- 16 Sep 2021
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Dean Datar on Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
because it refocuses the organization’s efforts on the customer. “I think interestingly—and perhaps counterintuitively—what design thinking does in a world like that is provide a focus on a set of opportunities that are likely to have the... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks about building her business model around providing... View Details