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  • 24 Apr 2014
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Reawakening rural America

entrepreneurs to stimulate rural job growth and set up a class in entrepreneurship for students from rural high schools. Dubbed “CEO” for “Creating Entrepreneurial... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2018
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Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa

economic change in rural Africa. “ThirdWay Africa is an investing and advisory firm focused on Indian Ocean Africa. We believe in a socially and economically empowered Africa. We work with multiple ecosystem stakeholders to create and... View Details
  • 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 development. Bharti Enterprises, one... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

seeds of entrepreneurship among rural youth in America's heartland. Schultz is the founder and CEO of Agracel, an industrial development firm that focuses on rural America.... View Details
Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship

Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty.... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2014
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Transforming India Through Agricultural Innovation

Keywords: rural poverty; agriculture; social enterprise; sustainability; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo’s (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest movements of Egypt’s venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 13 Mar 2018
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Manufacturing a Renaissance in the Deep South

  • 30 Nov 2014
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Harvard students help rebuild Afghanistan with one ingredient: Saffron

  • 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Rumi, the company has grown into a successful for-profit social enterprise that ships spices directly from farmers in Afghanistan to a certification plant in Turkey, then to their Chicago office for distribution. In addition to Jung, Miller, and Alaniz, Carol Wang, who... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

much as $4,000 a night—an astronomical sum in Thailand, for instance, where the average annual income is just over $5,000, and much, much lower in rural areas. “For most of these people, martial arts offered a way out. It’s a way of life... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
  • 27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

York chefs. “We had all this land, with about 20,000 old-growth sugar maples and red maples,” relates Turner. “Big picture, this was 2009 and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Sep 2009
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Bold Idea Takes Off

foundations, and most recently, Falik was named an HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. GCY’s teen recruits will receive two months of intensive training, after which they will spend six months living with a family in a View Details
Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 11 Jul 2013
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Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens

Falik's Global Citizen Year continues to grow. Courtesy Abby Falik Related Links Nonprofit founder recognized Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2005
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Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners

entrepreneur-owned, for-profit centers throughout rural India would offer one-stop shopping locations for customers needing government-required permits and deeds, microfinancing, agricultural information, and other essential services. A... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2012
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The American Dream

Seibel Systems, Lawson cofounded the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley. Lately her life has taken her down a spiritual path—she is an adherent of meditation—and made a political turn: she’s a candidate for Congress... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time

offering a brand of all-natural facial moisturizing oils derived from argan oil, obtained from southern Morocco’s argan tree. The company will work with the rural poor to build sustainable business around argan oil production. Emprofit,... View Details
Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Crop Production; Agriculture; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 21 Dec 2017
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A Decent Place to Live

housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural... View Details
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