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- 15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
January. “I hope women and men will take it,” he says. —JH Spotlighting Inequality Michael Norton “It’s not only what they don’t know that gets ’em into trouble, it’s what they know for sure that just ain’t so.” This aphorism (with...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
enrollment hits related to the pandemic, including a 7-percent decline here at CCRI. Community college students are more likely to come from low-income communities and communities of color, precisely the groups that have been disproportionately impacted by both the...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies
said Spar. Pricing inequities (90 percent of couples conceive for free), inconsistent insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and ambiguous legislation around property and privacy rights all create a unique market environment. Until...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
taken by photographer Webb Chappell, who did his excellent work in the Stamps Reading Room in Baker Library. Sachin Jain To Your Health Jain “Starting when I was about six,” Sachin Jain recalls, “I’d watch the evening news with my father,...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Sep 2014
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The Next Lessons
organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, Stanford Medical School, and the Brookings Institution to contribute educational content on the visual arts, medicine, and health care, respectively. “We’re also launching some...
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William Weber
- 01 Dec 2020
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In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to meeting the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
powerful emerging nations; security threats from radical movements, failed states, asymmetric warfare, and crime; and global health issues, including pandemics. Finally, our participants cited the inability of existing global institutions...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
family questioned in medical settings. “Death rates from COVID-19 in communities of color illuminate the impact of race on health outcomes,” he notes, “but serious inequities have existed for generations.”...
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Deborah Blagg
- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of underlying View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five areas: increasing hourly wages for its workforce; investing in...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing inequities in education. BRIDGING THE GAP See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
University. While there, she studied abroad in Ghana in order to learn more about that part of the world. “I had initially imagined a future in international diplomacy but quickly realized the political side of things was not for me. I was more drawn to the idea of...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
expectations market; reining in monopoly pension and hedge funds; and enlarging private companies' role in the economy. Seeing Patients: Unconscious Biasin Health Care by Augustus A. White III (AMP 94, 1984) with David Chanoff (Harvard...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve
cares that provide nutrition, health care, and educational support for mothers and young children—represent a particularly rich target. Rocket is currently working with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, which runs the centers,...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead
challenges and opportunities that the School faces—and the priorities that will guide his leadership. Inequality and racism are among the most serious problems in today's societies. How does Dean Datar plan to address these issues by...
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- 22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
reimagining women’s health to include a range of conditions and investing in new products to address the inequities that women face in the health care system. The FemHealth...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. Esquel also works to enhance the well-being of its employees. “Their View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
some lines. I don’t think we want to set up, as other countries have, what amounts to a central authority that looks at everybody’s choices. But we need to look at the extremes and whether there are some practices we just don’t want to allow. For example, there’s not...
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