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- 25 Nov 2020
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, Who Led the World Bank for 10 Years, Dies at 86
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
particular politics that surround the commercialization of reproductive technologies. Her recent publications include a book of cases on managing international trade and investment and Ruling the Waves:... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
challenges like climate change, health care, and wealth inequality.” To integrate and amplify HBS’s efforts, Dean Datar has appointed Debora Spar, the Jaime View Details
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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
(2) their own governance structures, and (3) their own contribution to supporting a Family’s legacy. There is great value that can be created through Family businesses. In fact, wealth creation in Families... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
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Many Rivers to Cross
Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open new possibilities for... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
understanding of how the world of refugees and poverty worked and how I could help.” (His brother helped to run the family business in DeFehr’s absence.) After Bangladesh,... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
causes of all this that you lay out in the book is what you refer to as the “great wealth migration.” Can you talk about the great wealth migration? Define it and tell us a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
the best overall showing. Chicago and Stanford each disappeared from the top five in at least one ranking. And the London Business School showed up only once in the top five — as No. 1. Two questions leap... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
company while still at HBS and had recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing had gotten its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
between 20 and 30 percent of the headcount is not optimized for utilization,” Berendt says. “About 200,000 people are sitting idle. We want to take this wealth of talent and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
and unleashing the potential of our next generation as social innovators and global citizens. Participants, she says, "will reflect the diversity of our country, and bring the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
economic development. Binagwaho explained that rolling back disease by fighting poverty — and vice versa — is at the core of public-health policy in Rwanda; sweeping government legislation specifically... View Details
Herbert W. Hoover, Jr.
Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, succeeding his father as president in 1954, Hoover learned the ins... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Benjamin Peterson
what classes I should take; and in Haiti, there were millions of people worried if they’d be safe at night.” Determined to understand poverty and what he could do about it, Ben... View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
JP Morgan Chase Opens New Office in Dublin
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and the venture capital community; and on the flip side of my life, I’ve applied them when working on global poverty and inner-city education... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
wealth to reinvent itself as a modern global competitor. Still, getting to Mars will be a nine-month journey, and lots can go wrong. “A country can only have one fiftieth anniversary,” says Al Hashmi.... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse’s pathway out of poverty began with scholarships to study at excellent elementary and secondary schools, which prepared him for admission to Harvard College, where he earned a degree in economics... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg