Sheryl WuDunn - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Nov 2014
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Sheryl WuDunn - Making A Difference

01 Sep 2009
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Heroines and Helping Hands

WuDunn Photo Courtesy Sheryl WuDunn Girls matter — we take that for granted here in the developed nations, and we all expect our daughters, sisters, and wives to make a... View Details

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June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
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Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris

In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details

Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership

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April 2019
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Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris

In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details

Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership

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29 Sep 2021
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Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business

6 PM – 7 PM EDT, 23 Sep 2021
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Power, for All: How it Really Works and Why Its Everyones Business

Power is one of the most misunderstood--and therefore vilified--concepts in our society. But is it all bad? How could it be used by anyone no matter their wealth and status--for good? To find out, please join Harvard professor Julie Battilana and University of Toronto... View Details

11 Dec 2014
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Working for a double bottom line

Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) uses her experience as a writer, editor, hedge fund manager, and banker to help women and girls who face challenges throughout the world. Together with her husband, she wrote Half... View Details

02 Jun 2015
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Pointing the Way to a Better World

“As a journalist. I can’t be an advocate,” insists Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) about the subject matter of her latest book, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, which she coauthored last... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Skydeck - Alumni

video meetings and the interpersonal communication principles that transcend medium “Walking a Tightrope” Author Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) on working class America’s economic fragility and how the COVID-19... View Details

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

upon them far more than we've ever thought before. And I hope that we do recognize how important they are. The system is still working. And it's thanks to the working class.” Dan Morrell: Sheryl WuDunn (MBA... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

adults with the most social ties, independent of physical health. Maybe this deep-rooted social element in all of us explains our yearning for a life of meaning. We wonder about our purposes; we care about our legacy.” —An excerpt from A Path Appears: Transforming... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2013
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The RaiseForWomen Challenge

Keywords: Nonprofit; social enterprise; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2009
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Alumni Books

Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (MBA ’86) (Knopf) Calling the oppression of women and girls in the developing world today’s most pervasive human rights violation, the... View Details

23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

Front Row: NYU Prof. and CNN Presidential Scholar Tim Naftali, Business Executive Katherine Gehl, Harvard Prof. Michael Porter, Pulitizer Prize Winner HBS Alumna Sheryl WuDunn (Panel Moderator) Back Row: HBS... View Details