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- 23 Sep 2016
- News
Innovating childhood education for America's future growth
- 18 Aug 2014
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Fighting income inequality with early education reform
mother of three has been using her business acumen in a partnership with the University of Chicago through the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC), an experimental school program Dias Griffin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Early Adopters
Omar Restom (HBS ’12, seated) and Douglas Melchior (MBA ’11) didn’t wait for the Harvard Innovation Lab’s official opening in November to relocate their base for developing Vaiad, a start-up self-serve platform that allows websites to sell ad space directly to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
By its launch at the end of April, The Harvard Business School Campaign had achieved $600 million toward its $1 billion goal. This early success was made possible by the thousands of alumni and friends who have given to the HBS Fund for... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
Last week I made the trek to campus to sit in on a case discussion. Sure it’s summer, but the crews who clean blackboards in Aldrich and Hawes are still pretty busy. In fact, we’re all busy, thank you very much. How else would you get your nice, shiny copy of the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the game of chess. The founder of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Hosts Chinese Educators
As part of its continuing initiative to help improve management education in Greater China, the School, along with HBS Publishing, welcomed 77 senior professors and deans in mid-January for the fourth session of the Program on Case Method... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
School, which she launched 2016 with physician and educator Priscilla Chan. “So we asked, what could we do if we started over?” Liu, who attended public school in Washington, DC, recognized from an early age... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
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An Engine of Education Innovation
fellow collectors of rare records and books with sellers. His solution, the early e-commerce site Exchange.com, was sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in 1999. The second time Leschly sat down to assess his future, he again... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
and fund them generously. JOHN ALFORD (MBA 2001) Chief network growth officer, KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Foundation, the largest nonprofit network of college-preparatory charter schools in the United States, which educates 113,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Mar 2015
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Raising the bar to provide quality education
After cofounding a nonprofit to establish academy schools for low-income children in London, England, Jennifer Moses (MBA 1989) is working to provide quality education for disadvantaged children in California. She and her husband, Ron... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
and humanities and has educated 19 million learners in 195 countries—all for free—supported primarily by revenue-generating leads from search advertising. The number of participants has skyrocketed during the pandemic, “and we’re just... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
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To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World
the School's first-ever capital campaign was marked by tradition, awareness of the vital role of business education in today's world, and deep appreciation and respect for the School's role in educating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
sales in excess of $73 billion. After chronicling the landscape of the new economy, Doerr remarked, "You probably figured I was going to come here and talk about technology and venture capital. But I think education is the biggest problem... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
best what their clients need. Phillips says nine of the club’s Community Partners client organizations for 2021 are in line with its DEI objectives, including Access Education Systems, a STEM program for inner city youth; the Alliance for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Oct 2012
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Answering the Doctor's Call
I’d say, ‘a doctor,’” says Downing. “I was always intrigued with medicine. I guess it’s just in my DNA.” But, as often happens with childhood dreams, Downing set aside his medical aspirations. His father had launched Downing Enterprises,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course
Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Karmic Kickstart
a handful of wealthy families. That change gave me an extraordinary level of freedom to take part in our daughters’ early lives and to spend time on a number of nonprofit projects, some in Southeast Asia. Then fate intervened again: In... View Details