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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak’s no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza’s (see page 42) merchandise, payment plans, and customer service, all designed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
a necessary first step in meeting the increasing demand for online educational tools. The newly remote DreamBox team decided to shift its focus to support, providing customer service not just for the 130,000 educators who had been in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. Coup, who’s 41 and a numbers whiz, worked as the policy director for the anti-deficit Concord Coalition in Washington, D.C.; a strategic planner in the office of the American Stock Exchange’s chairman; and a View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
we could tap the wisdom of the crowd to help design them? When you start thinking about making cars this way, at some point you’ve ceased thinking about cars and started thinking about a modern alternative to mass production. People will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
information technology companies, as well as in complementary areas such as marketing, branding, and design—all of which can help nascent businesses gain a foothold in the marketplace. Plus, the way fintech straddles the broader technology and financial View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
"South Africans expect a lot from the president," says Meyer, a recent graduate of the School's Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa (SEP). "They are looking for the presidency to improve day-to-day living conditions." Meyer's Pretoria office oversees all... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Death Star,’” recalls Crespin, the founder of CollaborateUp, a consulting firm that specializes in tackling big societal problems and bridging difficult, cross-sector relationships. He adds, “The environmental people had their arms... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
Organizational Behavior Unit, Assistant Professor Tsedal Neeley researches global collaboration with special emphasis on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup challenges of working across national boundaries. While a principal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Alive customers, who tend to have special dietary needs, to access the food they wanted. To address that, we created three- and five-day plans with ready-to-eat, portioned meals that you could just pull out of the refrigerator. That... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
was spotted in 1986 by Alain Gomez (20th PMD), the charismatic chairman of the French electronics giant Thomson, who tapped him as his special assistant. In 1988, Djelic went to the United States to help with a new Thomson acquisition,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
After graduating Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1974 and earning his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1976, Bujalski had a successful business career as CEO of several health care services companies. His journey into... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. With revenues of around $12 billion, it comprises some of the most famous firms in advertising, marketing, and public relations. He is now positioning WPP... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The Realities Facing Female Founders,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
which is a pretty incredible 10-year journey. Flint: What was the vision at the outset? Zatlyn: Well if you read the first sentence of our business plan competition that we had to write: Cloudflare is a service that will accelerate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
acceptance into A Better Chance (ABC), a program designed to help smart, minority kids reach their full potential. As a tenth-grader, Rogers was placed in a group house in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with eleven other teenagers from all over... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
service especially needed given the isolation caused by the pandemic. After two decades in the senior housing industry, which included overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a REIT, Oppenheim developed a vitality framework built... View Details