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- 24 Apr 2014
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Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
fifth box? 3) Consider partnering with local humane societies. For example, offer a reduced-cost first package after an adoption—the goal being to associate the joy of bringing a pet home with your product. — Laura Viaches (MBA 2008) Vertically integrate View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
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Accounting for Real Change
prioritize environmental or social benefits in addition to profit, he writes. “Yet investors, as well as consumers and employees, lack transparency on the impacts companies make through their products, employment, and operations.” The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
She raised $300,000 from family and friends, making full use of the HBS network and tapping into angel investing groups, since raising about $1.5 million more. With annual sales well beyond the $1 million mark, Endline notes that sweetriot has grown View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
Image by C.J. Burton Since the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program was launched at HBS 17 years ago, it has provided nonprofits with something they need but can rarely afford: executive training. SPNM, which is offered View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
countries, including Rwanda, where they miss up to 50 days of school or work per year because women lack access to these basic necessities. Through her work at SHE, Scharpf has created the enterprise’s first initiative, SHE 28, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Stevenson Accepts Key University Position
Stevenson Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean for External Relations and a leader in the study of entrepreneurship at HBS, has been named senior associate provost for Planning and Resources for Harvard University, effective July 1.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
We Have Liftoff
area, and catch up with other teams passing through. Archway Health Advisors David Terry (MBA 1998) Describe your company in fewer than 140 characters: The mission of Archway Health Advisors is to fix health care through payment reform.... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
Schools, and from there launched a training and consulting company to help educators and leaders think through how to use the best of innovation to create a new student experience. “We’re in the 21st century now and there are tools that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
healthy perspective during her recent initiation into the topsy-turvy world of start-ups, as cofounder of Boston-based edu.com. "If I was able to get through HBS under those circumstances, I figured I could handle anything," Kanner... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
shorten the time employees have to wait between jobs or introduce a requirement that former employees be compensated during the noncompete term. In Massachusetts, where Johnson founded Common Commute, a commute-sharing startup, noncompete reform bills have been... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
self-confident, as well as financially self-sufficient. Forty-five people have been employed through the program at Australia’s Department of Defence, Department of Human Services, and Department of Immigration and Border Protection.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams
internship at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute during the summer before his senior year prompted Okeke to consider how he could broaden his impact in health care through business. He applied to, and was accepted into, HBS’s 2+2 Program,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
those communities, because it's through building those relationships that you can build on that over time and really build the ecosystem. But you can't build ecosystems without having embedded under it a set of personal, human relations.”... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
research and work, in this case in the area of social enterprise and civic leadership, make a difference in the world. The support of alumni and friends advances this work. Through annual giving to the HBS Fund, donors are enabling and... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
A Business Plan with Spice
Emily Miller (MBA 2015) and Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015) both served in the US Army in Afghanistan. “We wanted to continue that service through a different avenue, which was through business,” Jung says in an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
leaders via their office door, Working Out of the Box offers a helpful, reflective comparison for any worker. It’s also a useful tool to decode one’s boss through the presence (or lack thereof) of family photos or beanbag chairs. For... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
designs. Later, he became the first entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital, working with his fellow founders to launch Ariba, the first enterprise application on the Internet, which established the category of B2B e-commerce. SAP acquired Ariba in 2012 and now... View Details