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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
that Ant Financial, the fintech arm of the Alibaba Group, has approximately 1.5 billion users across its various platforms—a number that exceeds the combined populations of North America and Western Europe. (With a valuation of $60...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
from opioids), Shumway also cites domestic abuse and criminal records that prevent reintegration into society as primary factors that contribute to homelessness. “A disproportionate number of the homeless are also veterans with mental View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
to replicate office culture in the digital world, and the movement’s wider implications for how and where we organize ourselves. Prashanth, you said in a March announcement about Stack Overflow going all-remote that the most important factor was the View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost, time-tested efforts to improve child...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Still, women entrepreneurs—11 percent of the US working population in 2013, according to a report by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor—receive significantly less venture capital money than their male counterparts. HBS Assistant Professor...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
gratitude, visualize hope, be mindful, and keep moving. He also offers techniques to integrate these habits into any challenging, busy life. Health Journal: 10 Minutes a Week to Greater Health through...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
buildings 10 miles east of Mexico City that is populated by some of the country’s poorest citizens. Over the past two years, though, market days have been busier than normal at the store—all thanks to a little silver service booth just...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
are seeing capabilities and trying to retrofit them to needs." Also seen as significant were a host of other issues, among them "entitlements, such as health insurance," "junk bonds and the LBOs of the 1980s and today's mergers, which are...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
two programs in particular: The “one cow per poor family” program intended to get every poor family in Rwanda a cow—thereby increasing the amount of milk, protein, and fertilizer available to the average family, which sounded good on paper. But this was in the most...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the whole world of nature,” she once said. Years later, Carson—a quiet, reserved woman who trained as a scientist—would find her voice as a writer, publishing essays and books about nature’s delicate interrelationship with humankind. For two years, she battled a range...
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- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law enforcement, breaking down barriers and building bridges between communities, and voting and civic...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in...
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