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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey In June, Aman Kumar (MBA 2014) was appointed the first-ever special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia. Kumar has a day job, too, working in the New York office of enterprise software giant... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
podcast hosted by Sara Vicente Barreto (MBA 2009). “In the age of COVID, the time has never been more urgent or the need greater to keep older people well and connected,” said Oppenheim, who received a US... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
East—can drop the hemline on a Barbara Tfank pencil skirt, for example, add sleeves to a Martin Grant swing dress, or design their own Tinker Tailor–branded wares. The customers have embraced choice: “In a lot of the investor meetings we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
family median income and wealth parity, the proper public policy goal. “Those revenues would be used for grants for down payments on primary residences; for high-quality, targeted public education; and for capital View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
For many entrepreneurs, the inspiration for starting a business is rooted in personal experience. An enterprise is born not just to fill a neglected market niche but a personal need as well. Such is the case with ventures created by HBS... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Harley Frankel (MBA 1966) is dedicated to bringing change to the field of education. During a long career in education policy at the federal level, he led the National Head Start program; helped to develop the forerunner of the Pell Grant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
reason a lot of our mainstream pop culture is so dominated by certain stereotypes is honestly because of the people who create that content. Once I realized that I could create content that’s more reflective of what I think my children... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an account executive at View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
Stephen Moret has long been driven by a passion for advocacy and leadership. As copresident of the HBS Student Association (SA), Moret created an online “Student Issues Poll” as a way to bridge the communication gap between students, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
regulatory bodies that are taken for granted in the West but are not available in emerging markets. "Companies can create value by developing these systems for themselves," notes Palepu. For example, large... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
Illustration by Edmon deHaro Even before we’ve seen the full potential of quantum computing in any material sense, the global market is estimated to reach $5.5 billion in the next five years. To begin to understand why, consider how it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and minorities are represented... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
HBS and community leaders. Fred Clark: The Class of 1973 lived through and learned from the civil rights movement and the promise of an open, fair, and vibrant society as articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After seeing some of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
fellow, Chan was at first taken aback by the amount of influence and responsibility he was granted from the start. “One day, the Mayor walked by my cube and said ‘I think we... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, and we were among... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell