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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
an unsatisfactory outpatient experience at a government-run facility, she also received ineffective treatments from an untrained local practitioner. She is feeling increasing physical discomfort, general weakness, and growing alarm about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
intentions and a sense of loyalty to a local organization. As for the foundations that distributed billions to nonprofits, they rarely held their beneficiaries accountable for results. Just as result-driven thinking entered the business... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
other Harvard University alumni have established the Harvard Alumni for Turkey Earthquake Relief Fund and are asking their classmates and colleagues for support. The fund is part of the Bridge to Turkey... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust helps to negotiate land transactions between landowners and public entities or groups hoping to preserve it. It also focuses on conservation funding and finance, conducts the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
just India—to HBS and the best of HBS to the region.” Anjali Raina (AMP 174, 2008), Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
handful more in other locations over the following two years, totaling $100 million in impact investments. Social Finance will work with state and local governments to structure and monitor the funded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
you have an incredibly creative person with a great idea, and you can't find the money to fund it," notes Vicki Wilson (MBA 1985), CFO of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. Her colleague down Michigan Avenue, Field Museum of... View Details
- 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
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
way. It was Primary Day. As was his habit on this occasion of civic duty, Joseph J. Lhota (MBA '80) had risen early at his Brooklyn Heights home in order to vote at his local polling place before departing for Lower Manhattan and his City... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
services, all of which are offered tuition free. Liu, now the president and COO of The Primary School, came to the project as an educator; Chan came to it as a pediatrician. Together, they developed three guiding principles, which Liu says sets the school, which is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
director Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), so the celebration commemorates not the conception but rather the execution. It's fitting: The organization matches local nonprofits with volunteer HBS alumni who help the groups build strategies to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University have announced the launch of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
office was, and one by one passionately voiced their thoughts and feelings about the situation to each other and our local leadership team. People did not hold back,” Jacobs recalls. “Not even a little.” Gisel Kordestani (MBA 2003) was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
from the firm’s Cranford headquarters, allowing its eight-person team to provide fast, personal service. The company also takes an “engineering approach” to services, investing in skilled technicians rather than relying on less costly View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the public or private sector and has made lasting contributions to the Atlanta community. The recipient need not be an HBS graduate. The Leadership Dinner also raises funds for full... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, our 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win their local regions. On April 23, they travel to campus to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
growing pains. RITE is the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States, and reaching that milestone was an odyssey: Smith reckons that the technical challenges, funding crunches, and regulatory hurdles involved in... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
automotive at that point. It was almost as if it was on a blacklist somewhere.” Yet by the fall of 2007, Local Motors had secured $2 million in funding and formed a partnership with the Massachusetts-based... View Details