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- 16 Oct 2023
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Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access
- 24 Apr 2014
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Speaking out on behalf of the disabled
assumptions. “They wanted me to contribute more,” he says. “I made a course correction,” says Lipsitz. “I’ve come to realize that a large part of my purpose here is to set a good precedent for people with disabilities who will follow me....
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- 14 Oct 2014
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Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
and foundations as well as individual donors, serves 1,000 people a year. “In life it’s hard to achieve a goal that’s so big, by yourself,” he says. “You bring people together with similar disabilities and they will figure out how to...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
For many entrepreneurs, the inspiration for starting a business is rooted in personal experience. An enterprise is born not just to fill a neglected market niche but a personal need as well. Such is the case with ventures created by HBS graduates, Darren Brehm (MBA...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Giving Back
It was in grade school that Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94) began to lose his sight due to macular degeneration, a retinal condition; by his junior year at Purdue, his vision loss was complete. Today, Gibbons is president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, a network...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
for disabled travelers and their companions. THE BREHMS: On location in Lisbon, working to make the world accessible to individuals with physical challenges. Photo courtesy of Darren Brehm In 1993, Faith and I were seriously injured in a...
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- 05 Aug 2020
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Rethink How You Do Business in Order to Keep Being Innovative
- 20 Mar 2014
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Fixing a Weak Safety Culture at General Motors
- 16 Nov 2021
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Shift Hidden Workers to Human Assets to Meet Talent Needs Now
- 07 Feb 2024
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The Sound of Success
A groundbreaking gene therapy developed by Akouos, Inc., a precision genetic medicine company founded in 2016 by Emmanuel (Manny) Simons (MBA 2012), has enabled an 11-year-old boy from Morocco to hear sounds for the first time. According to a recent New York Times...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup
people with disabling hearing loss Buoy Health—provides AI-powered feedback on symptoms and makes recommendations for care options Careport Health—offers care coordination software solutions to manage patient transitions across the...
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April White
- 17 Feb 2016
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The Power of Art
The New York Times checked in with for-profit art broker Artlifting. The young company, which represents homeless and disabled artists, now has seven employees and works with more than 70 artists in eight cities. It has sold artwork for...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
a lark, Gain Life partnered with an insurance company to see if its apps could help people who are out of work on shortor long-term disability or workers’ compensation. This market has only a handful of competitors and big bottom-line...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Aug 2013
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Cause Marketing Gets Personal
since—"an intermezzo," she calls it—to do volunteer public advocacy work in behalf of people with physical disabilities and chronic pain. She has participated in roundtable discussions with national pain experts and View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Vision: Sound Science
organizational development, board meetings, strategy sessions, stakeholder outreach, and other CEO duties. In addition to its lead product, the company’s research pipeline now includes potential therapies for a variety of disabling...
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
2004 at Outdoor Explorations, a nonprofit that brings together people with and without disabilities for inclusive outdoor adventures. She spent last summer doing marketing for Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific–owned manufacturer of...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved...
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- 02 Feb 2017
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Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
the goals of her organization and her leadership role. “As CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes, we support about 350 individuals with intellectual disabilities in the community. “The basis of the organization is that...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Up Against The Firewall
Internet, rank novices can disable an organization’s Web site, hurting business while giving the firm an embarrassingly public black eye. More serious are the sometimes devastating and often indiscriminate internal intrusions perpetrated...
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