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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
ideas into practice. I am excited by this challenge, as it will force me to analyze multifaceted problems, determine the right questions to address, and develop advantageous solutions. Education reform and poverty alleviation are complex...
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Tony He
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in health economics research. I learned useful technical skills, but I looked to expand my thinking. Business school...
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- 07 Nov 2018
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A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Water.org, we are singularly focused on solving the global water crisis in our lifetime. There are about 844 million people every day who lack safe water and about 2.3 billion who lack access to adequate sanitation. The health and View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
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Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
entity that can effectively lobby to pass such policy. It’s time to revisit the assumption, one speaker argued, that sustainability can be reconciled with economic growth. "What’s the use of a zero-waste and carbon-free island resort...
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Katie Rae Mulvey Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Katie Rae Mulvey, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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approach that takes both ethical and economic imperatives seriously. Paine's book speaks directly to those responsible for a company's performance —executives, entrepreneurs, directors, managers — but any stakeholder in the global economy...
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- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
stronger in neighborhoods with more opportunities for organized crime. There are no effects on less economically motivated crimes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55870 Compensation Consultants and...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Department to Leadership Now Daniella Ballou-Aares 29 Jun 2017 Five years ago I moved from New York to Washington to become an appointee at the State Department... Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Katie Rae Mulvey, Detroit Economic Growth...
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In the News - Entrepreneurship
Journal Commentary: AI Can Democratize Venture Capital Access Re: Jeff Bussgang 17 Jul 2024 Economic Times Starting up in the US: An Entrepreneur’s Path to the Green Card Re: William Kerr Load More Initiatives focus on societal challenges...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Collaborative Cures
Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard University is ripe with new advances in science and technology. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a complex...
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Introduction Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1997. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In October 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing earned his Ph.D. from MIT in...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely...
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- 08 Aug 2024
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Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
Exploration Kuyoro spent her childhood in Nigeria before continuing schooling in the UK. After completing her degree in Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection of View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
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Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
Excerpt by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee Blacks have been integral to the economic foundation of the United States since its inception, yet that foundation was forged on an institutionalized inequality, which...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
needed for the most important problems of our time.” The opioid epidemic is devastating our country and undermining our economic competitiveness, from the streets to the C-suites. It is a scourge whose View Details
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Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 02 Jul 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg
leaders on the cutting edge of research. The driving force behind this gathering since its inception has been Ray Goldberg, the veritable father of agribusiness. Along with his then HBS colleague John H. Davis, Goldberg coined the word in 1957, and that year they...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Ideas
Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event that the Big Three contributed to by giving overly optimistic ratings to highly View Details
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Hayling Price
sector "that would enable economic opportunity and mobility in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty." But while his career experiences in the nonprofit sector were rewarding, they were also limiting. "I found that...
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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
problems. We say “unsolvable” because communities around the world face such daunting, complex problems - ranging from providing safe, healthy water and food for all, to ensuring educational and economic...
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