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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
rubbed off on the School, which set a speed record in approving the trio’s proposal for a pilot program to sprinkle $50,000 in seed money on student start-ups. The Minimum Viable Product Fund, dubbed MVP, attracted 88 teams vying for support; 9 won View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
experts granted the privilege of sharing her knowledge, Henderson used her time, she says, "to tell him everything I know about business, energy, and the environment." Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor and... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
DOWNING: In one of the world’s poorest countries, the rain forest is key. At A Glance Total Area: 111,369 sq. km. Population: 3,441,790 Per Capita GDP: $500 All maps by Robert Littleford; Country Data: Cia World Factbook Thomas Downing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
possibility, but between her junior and senior undergraduate years, a summer internship with UNICEF in the West African country of Benin and a visit with relatives in Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria put that plan on hold. “It was, by far, my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
(government-run) system; or various elements borrowed from all of these. President Obama has said he wants to move gradually, beginning by insuring all children, and has expressed reservations about aspects of the Massachusetts model,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
depends upon the decisions of two or three people in the oil business— that's the leader of Saudi Arabia and the president of Mexico, principally," Stobaugh explains. Recent higher prices paid by consumers at the gas pumps aren't the work... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
the stress of being in those seats. And things like exercise, and meditation, and counseling, and family, and things that we sort of take for granted at times are very, very important. So I would absolutely say yes, and emphatically. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
the model before tackling the more competitive cities that the traveler-oriented services are blanketing. Testing a few big markets periodically will help confirm whether the return is greater by sticking to small and medium in the near... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
generates returns for investors through timber harvesting, recreational leasing, and in some cases, by subdividing the properties for development or non-timber uses. Lyme Timber, however, is unique among TIMOs View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and received a $25,000 View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Connie Baher (MBA 1980) I was standing in New York’s Asia Society Museum when I saw it. A high school kid from... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
granting that she still defines success by the typical benchmarks of money and responsibility, the former VC partner also recounts a recent conference she and her husband had with her son's teacher. "She... 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
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
function caused by the tumor and its treatment, Susan had survived the unsurvivable. It was then that Sontag made a promise to himself and his wife: “If I ever get a chance to do something about this disease, I’m going to do it.” In 2002,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
solving many of the same problems along the way but in isolation. So she wrote the manual. Drawing on her own experiences and the road map established by Grommet’s ventures, Pieri’s book, How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Skills”—has generated much interest nationally in the role of business in closing the skills gap. The Walmart Foundation, for example, cited the research in its recent decision to grant $100 million over the next five years to... View Details