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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
politics to social movements to the world’s weather patterns, we are living in the midst of great volatility. How do we see clearly, not only here and now, but also into an uncertain future? In this context,...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
asynchronously. But I think there’s a second element of shoulder-tapping that relates to socialization and informal discussions. The model there has been to informally mix people randomly to create these water-cooler moments. I was on a...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Books
by discussing the growing movement toward “psychological self-determination,” a trend viewed warily by some scholars. For their part, Zuboff and Maxmin maintain that increased individualism is “a cause for celebration.” They point to...
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- 13 Jun 2014
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The Art of Effecting Change
artist themselves. Why is that? At VIA, we work directly with artists, meeting as a group to learn, discuss, and vote on which projects we will support. In a sector where social impact is amorphous, education is imperative to engagement...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic. The program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, with many of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by...
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- 19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success
emerging companies,” she says.“ When we started Minds Matter, we didn’t just start a nonprofit, we started a movement of people wanting to make a positive difference. Today, only 34 percent of low-income children even attend college, but...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA 2001) Wiley Why do some changes occur, and others don’t? What are the factors that drive successful View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was...
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- 07 Apr 2021
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Road Work
Himalayas, through the four spiritual peaks. And we went with two full-time cinematographers and we each had GoPro type cameras. That, much like the death of my friend, accelerated this movement and reorientation of values away from the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
economic stagnation of the middle class? The labor movement supports the agenda that Barack Obama has skillfully outlined for revitalizing our economy and rebuilding the middle class. First, we have to have a real economic recovery...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a worldwide movement. And now we accept donations to help fund the worldwide movement and share the ethos, which has been a really wonderful part of becoming a nonprofit. Hanna: Great, and why do you think Burning Man has been...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
gave the name and address of one of KOR’s founding members. “Why don’t we go?” Maj asked his friends. The building was near their dorm. “We were 20,” Maj says now, laughing—it was a bit of lark. But Ludwik Cohn opened the door. The man, then in his 70s, had been a...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to...
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- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
Entrepreneurs supports the growing number of leaders who are helping expand civic and grassroots engagement, providing resources and connecting leaders in pursuit of these goals. Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002), president and cofounder Issue One is building a cross-partisan...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
shelter–these were the everyday realities of a boyhood spent in the outskirts of London during the early 1940s. In this personal and meticulously detailed account of growing up under the stresses, daily dangers, and constant movement of...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington, he helped lead a View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and View Details