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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
beyond Europe: Kumar presented the project to former Florida governor Jeb Bush during the GOP presidential candidate’s trip to Estonia in June. (Photo courtesy of SAP) Although e-Residents aren’t granted any of the rights of Estonian... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career researchers, making a long-term investment in the most promising scientists in the field. “The grants they provided are high-octane fuel,” says Dr. Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an account executive at Grant Thornton,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure. After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
bronzes, and, yes, the glorious stone statuary of Cambodia. I also assisted young archaeologists with grant applications to preserve ancient kiln sites from the encroachment of developers’ bulldozers. We brought traditional Cambodian... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
before being asked to head the company's bankruptcy department in 1987. In 1991, she was granted responsibility for the high-yield department as well, and in 1992 became the first female employee elected to the Bear Stearns board of... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
regulatory bodies that are taken for granted in the West but are not available in emerging markets. "Companies can create value by developing these systems for themselves," notes Palepu. For example, large diversified companies doing... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
enterprise. Grossman grants that quantifying a plan’s potential social value will not be an easy task for judges. But four years later, the impact of nonprofit ventures such as Montage are easy to observe, particularly when Stone tells... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Emory Healthcare sent a team of managers and clinicians to the Managing Healthcare Delivery program. From left, Dane Peterson, Dallis Howard-Crow, Bryce Gartland, and Susan Grant at Emory University’s School of Medicine in Atlanta,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
family median income and wealth parity, the proper public policy goal. “Those revenues would be used for grants for down payments on primary residences; for high-quality, targeted public education; and for capital View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
its Seal of Distinction, along with a $30,000 prize and access to restricted grants that average more than $500,000 annually. “One of the few textbooks I kept after HBS was from a performance-measurement course taught by Professor Robert... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
that our most important asset is our brain, which makes it easy to take for granted the people, platforms, processes, products, and politics that create the context for our great performance. Only when we move do we realize the importance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Buffalo, New York, granted its first two executive education scholarships this year. “This program is really great because it benefits the local community,” says Richard (“Bing”) Sherrill (MBA ’62), treasurer of the Buffalo club. The HBS... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
engineering. After an initial grant of $350 from the Student Association, the station paid its operating expenses through advertising. Besides providing business and technical experience, WHBS’s stated goals were to give students... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
the average grant to fellowship students will only be about 25 percent of their total, two-year expenditure. “Long term, raising money to increase fellowship support will continue to be important.” Another goal is enlarging the number of... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
created a bold and provocative vision—‘50 by 60’—that says that [New England] can produce 50 percent of our food locally by 2060. This is the organizing principle in what is a systems-wide approach to solving a problem.” Since 2011, the Kendall Foundation has View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley