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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
women into a 18 month program. They give them intense therapy. And then they also go through training classes. So they learn basics like business skills, how to write a resumé. They get apprenticeships with local companies. WIR has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
accurately and cost-effectively. MANAGER'S NOTEBOOK Crowdsourcing as an Innovation Tool "Look at what one of our alumni, Jay Rogers (MBA 2007), is doing with cars at Local Motors. He's figured out that the people inside his organization... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
fruits, which she then sells at the local market. "The impact of these loans is extraordinary," says Barry. "Poor women have shown that they are the world's best customers, repaying their loans and using their increased income to feed,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
building a global business strategy to establish markets in countries such as Russia and China, which American business interests had largely ignored. Starting out, he crafted a pan-European approach, believing his young audiences wanted shared common experiences... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
value both formal reunions and impromptu minireunions. Events with HBS professors and networking opportunities continue to receive widespread support. Local HBS Alumni Clubs are a valuable convener for these engagements. The next phase of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize
Reunion giving. In addition to attending panels such as "Managing Marketspace Interfaces on the Internet and Beyond," "Social Entrepreneurs in Action," and "The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future," reunion classes also got a chance to spend time together... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
destination end up being so much less attractive despite the relative absence of this usual litany of investment obstacles? Part of the answer may lie precisely in how these obstacles tilt the playing field between local firms and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
the practicalities and evaluate the security and the risk. In the more dangerous places, I like to keep a local Mr. Fixit with me.” —Andrew Main Wilson (AMP 156, 1999), on the challenges of photographing the 1,000 travel wonders of the... View Details
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- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
After leading a group of investors to purchase the Sacramento Kings in 2013, Vivek Ranadivé (MBA 1983) partnered with local government in California’s capital to open a new arena and 1-million-square-foot mixed-use development in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
A Match Made in Heaven
he was named CEO. Intent on having Samuel Adams perceived as a world-class product, Roper wants to move Boston Beer beyond its image as a local craft-brewer. “We’re already distancing ourselves from that,” he observed. “We need to take... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man coordinates a food drive to benefit the people in his community. As a local leader in the Robin Hood Army, a nonprofit volunteer organization, he’s on the front... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
COVID-19. The largest group of Promise applicants at CCRI comes from families making less than $25,000 annually. Can you speak to how the program opens doors for students and provides a boost to local economies? Higher education is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the local community. For the first time, students from different academic disciplines across the University will have access to shared space to work on new ventures, guidance from HBS’s... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
festival (Emmy Lou Harris, Taj Mahal, et al) to support its charitable foundation. "Unlike a start-up in a larger city, RAP, based in a community of 900 people, makes everything work without the advantage of incubators, or a large local... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome barriers to increased local food... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
intelligence of students and faculty. The centers assist faculty with research and case writing, strengthen relationships with local alumni and practitioners, facilitate faculty and student immersions abroad, and host MBA admissions and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
people, which is hopeless. We just can’t seem to do that,” he observes. “The other problem is people getting along with Mother Nature. We are in the process of wrecking the planet.” The second problem wasn’t quite as hopeless, in his opinion. In 1998, after reading a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch has taken bimonthly trips to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
provide maple syrup to local school breakfast programs. Lots of kids in rural places, and certainly in rural Vermont, are coming to school without having had an adequate start to the day. It's been a wonderful gift to be able to produce... View Details