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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 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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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
aren’t that clear.” Despite the pain of Quincy’s failure, Wallace doesn’t regret the experience. “I’m more fulfilled when I’m scrappy and building something, so I’m grateful to have been ripped away from the notion that I need financial...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
national security, and increased competition for land. The $1 trillion global financial loss is staggering. Despite these challenges, the authors call attention to the extraordinary social and environmental opportunities created by...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
the second most popular employment option, after financial services, for newly minted HBS alumni. It's also what many older alumni from a variety of fields eventually turn to, applying their hard-won expertise to create a "next career"...
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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
and therapy, and start to explore what else is out there and what you would want to do. That's stage two. Then stage three is more of an integrating what you've learned. I spoke to a CEO of a financial advisory firm in Seattle, who has...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
carry out our mission.” Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has sponsored a Leadership Fellow almost every year of the program’s existence. “Any established institution runs a major risk of becoming staid, stodgy, complacent, and...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
is executive director of CovidCheck.org, a risk assessment tool based on CDC and WHO guidelines. The tool has been deployed in 9 languages across the globe and is used for daily “back-to work/school” screenings at universities and major...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
strategic approach to its operations. It was everything I had been looking for professionally—social impact, rigor, and an opportunity to build. Robin Hood pioneered what came to be known as venture philanthropy, using private dollars to take View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
things like that. And we decided to put both our, let's say, our technology behind it, our financial resources behind it, but also our reputation. And that was risky, because we also owned the biggest Superfund site in the US, which was...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair game. I went for flexibility...
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