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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received
connect with people, trying to get them to trust you. And the more authentic that bond is, the better leader you become. And it’s that simple—you don’t have to come up with any other fancy formula. As soon as I internalized that, it...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
it’s clear who does what and why. And after that, stay in your lane. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns there were no domestic flights, and you had to have special permits to travel by road. We had to think through the logistics of how to operate...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
goals, what their internal and external constraints are, and where they can improve. Find the resources you need. Discuss the information, budget, tech, and networks that you and your teammates need to reach the team’s goals. If you don’t...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
agricultural powerhouses, they built that global capacity off of a large internal market," says Masha. "That's how Brazil did it, that's how Thailand did it, that's how the US did it. They were all able to leverage their large View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor and senior associate dean for international development. More than half of the HBS faculty are actively involved in international research. While they often work with a...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
the production process and lower costs. Yong believes the new facility could also spark manufacturing and innovation for local industry. With only 9 percent of the world’s vehicles being produced on the continent—mostly in South Africa or North Africa, according to the...
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Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Governor of Kaduna State Malam Nasir AHMAD El-Rufai (left) and Mira Mehta (right) meet with Nigerian government officials (photo courtesy of Tomato Jos) Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) didn’t set out to become a farmer in northern Nigeria, but today, the company she cofounded,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
industry. Would the industry be best served by a model in which these three entities operate under one umbrella? —Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (AMP 190, 2016) CARTY: The growth and development of the airline industry over the last 30 years...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
the reservations, gradually assuming roles of increasing responsibility in sacred ceremonies and serving as an administrative intern for both of his tribes. The high-profile Cherokee chief, Wilma P. Mankiller, served as his mentor. "I got...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
really funny and-- well, funny's not the right word but a really eye-opening story. I was actually telling this today. So right out of HBS, we were non-funded, working out of a makeshift office. And one of my business school classmates said, hey, I'll be your View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically...
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- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
International Finance Corporation; Sarah Wright Meyers (MBA 1997), Founder & Managing Partner, Hull Street Energy; and Matt Sonnesyn (Harvard Kennedy School, 2002), VP of Infrastructure, Energy, and Environment, Business Roundtable. “This...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Asia, and Israel, it has an international presence and a record of big hits that began in the 1980s with companies such as AOL and Apple and continues to this day with investments in industries as diverse as high tech and health care,...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
stepmother's homespun culinary skills, he created "Uncle Dave's Vermont-Made Old-Fashioned Ketchup," an all-natural, spoonable condiment in a jar whose time had apparently come; after just two weeks of sales the tasty sauce brought in $6,000. Within six months, Lyon...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
international dynamics. In this concise and incisive analysis, Andrew Cainey and Christiane Prange explain what is happening in China and how this affects its relations with other countries. They identify what foreign companies need to...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
internal funding I’ve received here,” Neeley says. Because HBS research funds supported her study, Neeley was free to report her findings in a completely uninhibited and unprecedented way. “When your work is not funded by outside...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Internet, and corporations are now buying their entire travel budget through specialized applications we deliver over the Internet." Technology has also changed the decision-making process for airline employees, giving them "the ability to take vast quantities of data...
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Nancy O. Perry