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Kanwaljit Bakshi
going into science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says....
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- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
volunteers," including leaders from her previous company, human resources platform Gusto. She is most proud of the fact that the initiative led to real action, rather than mere words, after the racist violence in the spring of 2020. “Many...
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Margie Kelley
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
violence against your company if you are not willing to voice support for their cause there are rarely any solutions that would satisfy everyone. CEO’s facing this kind of circumstance have my respect and sympathy.” Peter Fanning offered...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
business leaders. Those who had until then been willing to either support Trump or at least mute their criticisms clearly felt that his responses to the protests and violence made that stance no longer sustainable. For example,...
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by Gautam Mukunda
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Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol | About
vandalizing property—is not one we can, or should, soon forget. Freedom of expression and peaceful protest are rights we must always respect. Violence such as unfolded on Thursday can never be condoned. Beyond the dismay and outrage we...
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- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
“I care about the next generation, people the same age as my 18-year old sister.” She continued: “They have the burden of gun violence and I don’t want to put one more burden on them to have to solve. They are worried about global...
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- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
Parliament: “I was an independent member and every time I wanted to speak on an issue I was allowed to speak. So whether it was on framing the national slum policy or whether it was the domestic violence against women act or whether it...
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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy - MBA
demonstrators may not use or threaten force or violence (such as damaging or defacing a sign or intimidating or assaulting a speaker or audience member), interfere with the freedom of movement of a speaker or audience member, or remain on...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
greater. When Exit Is an Option: Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sinmazdemir Abstract—Most research on the effects of View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
violence of all sorts is poverty—not absolute poverty, but inequality between the classes. If growth brings more economic equality into a society, then yes, growth is good." Pruthul Patel writes, "Growth is life. Without growth...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
The Tulsa Massacre, which took place from May 31 to June 1, 1921, remains one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history. Ashley McCray (MBA 2022) was a little nervous as she prepared to join 700 of her first-year classmates...
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How to Post | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
numbers of students pursuing activities away from campus, and with increased instability in a number of regions of the world, the School has developed guidelines and an approach to funding students that balances educational opportunities with the risks inherent in...
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- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
countries. At the same time that the region was enjoying the spoils of admirably executed cluster initiatives, it was being threatened by the destabilizing violence of the Basque separatist extreme, a slowing global economy, and an always...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
contribute to the intensity of violence once conflict has started. Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Courses & Case Studies Case Studies 11 Results CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence (819079) by Vikram Gandhi and Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme NOVEMBER 2018 (REVISED DECEMBER 2018) In Spring of 2018, Chris Ailman, CIO of the $200 billion...
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- 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016
coverage of shark ‘attacks’ and by highlighting shark-on-human violence in popular movies and documentaries. In this study, we investigate another subtler yet powerful factor that contributes to this fear: the ominous background music...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Motel in downtown Memphis. Although he was just 39 years old at the time of his death, the autopsy revealed that he had the heart of a 60 year old. Thirteen years leading the civil rights movement, suppressing the fear that accompanied daily threats of View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
who are no strangers to violent protests, mocked the ruckus with the Twitter hashtag #angrybird in reference to violence meted out by drivers from the dominant taxi company, Blue Bird. The company apologized and atoned with free trips...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
some were not. I have seen firsthand union threats and violence against employers and their property. Worse yet, I have seen unbridled coworker intimidation to and by union wage earners. In my opinion, if ever there was a group that must...
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- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
features racial violence and the quest for justice in the South. I also recommend Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann, which provides insight into how American capitalism got into...
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