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- 11 Jan 2016
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Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference
Alan B. Slifka On a bus in Israel, two seven-year-old boys talk about their interest in sports. One makes a joke, the other laughs. The boys, one Jewish, one Arab, are new friends. They met at a day camp...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
Illustration by Brian Stauffer THE PROFESSOR: Asaf Ali Khan For his first book, James Glenn (MBA 1965) was going to write about his own experiences in India during the Green Revolution of the 1970s. Worried it might not be exciting...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)
Black Enterprise is a multimedia company with the mission to ensure that everyone can act on the opportunities this country has provided to so many. Our tagline is “Wealth for life.” My father launched Black Enterprise in 1970 with a...
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
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Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Ron Shaich’s (MBA 1978) first venture, a cookie shop in downtown Boston, evolved into Au Bon Pain. His latest—Panera Cares—allows customers to pay only what they can afford at the popular restaurants he owns, Panera Bread. There’s a box...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
company, Chertavian turned this concept into reality in 2000 by launching Year Up, a job-training program for urban youth ages 18–24. By providing participants with technical and professional skills as well as six-month corporate...
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- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
proboscis, the needle-like nose it jabs at you, to draw out your blood, is so thin that it fits between the pain sensors in your skin. The mosquito was the inspiration for a needleless delivery device, painless and silent, now under...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Living Social
I think of social enterprise broadly: applying business principles to solve social problems, across the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. People still frame “entrepreneurs” and “social entrepreneurs” as two distinct groups, but more and more folks are thinking...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
A Michigan native and graduate of the University of Southern California, Richard Stillman served full-time in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1965. His military career, during which he rose to the rank of colonel and command of the Third...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
level of participation and accomplishment in the Business Plan Contest reflects the fact that student interest in entrepreneurship at the School is at an all-time high," said...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through...
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- 17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 31 Oct 2019
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Finding an Audience
Rene Solis (MBA 1958) is director of Musica en Mexico, a performing arts information service in Mexico City. In this interview he talks about how the group grew out of a personal mission to today serving a...
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- 02 Sep 2016
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Building a Legacy
Sunil B. Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) is founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, he talks about the role of innovation and reinvention to keep a business moving...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Andreas Jaegle (MBA 2014) and his Harvard University colleagues use the Harvard Innovation Lab as a co-development hub for their startup, elementa energy solutions, which brings low-cost electricity to the most underserved communities in...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Mark Fuller
Fuller Photo courtesy Monitor Group While many HBS grads hanker for a plum job with a major consulting firm, Mark B. Fuller started his own. He made the leap from HBS assistant professor to cofounder and CEO of the Monitor Group in 1982....
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Start-Up Contest for Alumni
Got an idea for a start-up? You could win a $25,000 cash prize from HBS. The inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest aims to draw attention to the fact that over half of HBS graduates describe themselves as entrepreneurs at some point in...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clayton Christensen. This new category of aircraft, developed out of research done in the mid-1990s by NASA and aircraft-engine manufacturers, tied in well with government-funded efforts to decrease...
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