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- 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...
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April White
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
multiple sectors were managing through crisis, while building his own business acumen. Post HBS, Surette rejoined Parthenon for four years focusing on education and consumer goods consulting. Then when it came time to make another move,...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
graduate of Tufts University, she earned master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Yale University. Prior to Smith, McCartney was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2005 to 2013—only the fifth woman dean in...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost, time-tested efforts to improve View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
this job,” he says, “is being separated from my wife and children.” An only child born to a Serb father and Montenegrin mother, Djelic was raised in Belgrade and moved to Paris when he was 10. There, he says, “I made contact with French...
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Garry Emmons
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
corporate philanthropy, but it adds something extra: not only does one needy child get access to its play products each time a product is sold, but Uncharted Play also gives access to its Think Out of Bounds View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Photo courtesy Andrea Silbert As a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Andrea C. Silbert (MBA/MPA 1992) never hesitated when asked what she was going to be when she grew up. Like her parents, she and her three siblings expected...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
and with Marietta’s support, recently completed her undergrad degree. Pine Mountain’s approach is holistic: In addition to offering more than a dozen environmental education courses for schoolchildren that integrate science, ecology, and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
acceptable is now completely unacceptable. For example, burning heretics is no longer considered a just punishment. Child marriage is not applauded as a family value. Many shifts in the right vs. wrong pendulum are affected by advances in...
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
replacements and repairs Neurosurgical procedures – cervical spine, brain Child birth – vaginal and caesarian Bariatric surgery Hysterectomies Urological procedures Rotator cuff repairs Tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies Observations...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
to his companies as his “children.” “When you have a child, you don’t ask what return you can expect,” Doriot was quoted in a 1967 Fortune magazine story. “Of course you have hopes — you hope the child will become president of the United...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
So I felt it was important to serve as a role model of women who are driven to succeed in the same way that men are. It was quite a burden. In those early days, for example, I returned to teaching two weeks after my first child was born...
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- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisable? Would it bring more responsive government, passable roads, fair courts, and a quality education for citizens that the country's leaders desire? The answers to those questions could help not only Liberia but also other countries...
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by Kim Girard
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
the concrete ceiling in corporate America." The nation's business community, he said, "continues to reserve the real positions of power for white males." Graves told his audience that their HBS education assured them of success but noted...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
seniors. Employers are experiencing those needs in lost productivity, absenteeism, and voluntary turnover. High demand for certain types of skills and the demographics of educational attainment mean that employers are going to have to...
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- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
won’t be lost such as highly personalized services such as child care until I considered that my 2 year-old grandson can operate iPhones, computers, and other electronic devices which means he’ll soon have access to HBX and electronic...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start, education, View Details
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Susan Young
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
child education and health in the least likely setting of rural Uttar Pradesh. Building on the recent literature on culture and public action, and relying on extensive field research, village-level...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
investment, in a bipartisan way to ensure that every child can be equipped with a mobile hotspot, with mobile connectivity, and the sorts of solutions that are required to truly drive an incredible education...
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