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- 14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action
collection of essays written by leaders of all ages (one as young as 15) and experiences. The book is intended, says Nick, “to provide candid insights, helpful tips, memorable quotes, and inspiring anecdotes about how to lead effectively...
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving, which will both complement and...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and finds a diabolical parenting manual, his world turns upside down. The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Your Kids was written by an organization called Families Against Rotten Teens (F.A.R.T.), a secret society of grizzled parents whose...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
the greatest amount of pride today. What books have you read lately? Alan Greenspan’s The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World; Michael Beschloss’s MBA ’80 book on Lyndon Johnson, which is fantastic; and even some John le Carré....
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most operated on shoestring...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
profound impact on me. Young, bright, respectable students were standing up against the police, the university, and our government. I was 22 years old. Seeing that people my age and younger could take a different point of view and speak...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to...
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau....
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
antibodies effective in fighting cancer. It all seems far removed from Depression-era Fargo, North Dakota, where Goldberg grew up and where, at age 10, he began working in his father's small hay, feed, and grain business. He later went...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Turning Point: Life Cycle
and how we each contribute to making it better. Last September, at the age of 64, the stars finally aligned. I shipped a bike from my home in Providence, Rhode Island, to Seattle, Washington, and began the 3,000-some-odd-mile journey...
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- 29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
us.” One solution in healthcare, says Deffarges, would be to expand Medicare so that people of all ages can enroll through an age-tiered process. “Let’s take what works and offer it to everyone.” Approaching these problems from the bottom...
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Margie Kelley
- 28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Shibayama founded AG Holdings, a consultancy with a special focus on art and culture programs. Art was the last thing on Shibayama’s mind 35 years ago, when he started working at Mitsubishi Corp., one of Japan’s giant trading companies,...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While...
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April White
- 06 May 2008
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Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest...
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- 05 Feb 2016
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The Wheel of the World
Photography by Jason Minick At the age of 16, Fortunat Mueller-Maerki (MBA 1975) was given his first clock, a Viennese desk model from the late 18th century. It came to him from the estate of a distant relative, and wasn’t particularly...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Dehydration is the leading cause of death among refugees. Before this panel ends, nearly eight hundred children will die of dehydration caused by diarrhea." Noting that the mortality rate for Afghan children under the age of five is 25...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More
boards, formalized my angel investing, and was off and running. In 2017, I launched a new online panel of 500 voters from all points along the political spectrum, of every age and ethnicity, and from every state in the union. For the next...
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- 27 Mar 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise
staff to help her temper her corporate mentality, which she admits at times lacked empathy. “At the age of 50, I had never once cried in my life,” she says. “By then, I'd had breast cancer three times and my mother was dead—I hadn't cried...
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