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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
featuring leaders from a diverse cross section of schools and businesses spanning the country. The case studies profile school leaders confronting a variety of challenges in urban, suburban, and rural public schools, as well as private,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
rural Chinese. Just addressing that problem—finding ways that farmers in the country’s poorer provinces can achieve a standard of living equal to a high-tech worker in Hangzhou—is a daunting task. This increasing unease about economic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
they know. Even if it's incredibly painful to change, not only do you have to deal with change management, but just the cost do so. So my business, we focus really on small cities and rural counties. We are tailored for them that we know... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
the richest one-third. In other words, without the much-maligned Wal-Mart, the rural poor, in particular, would pay several percentage points more for the food and nonfood merchandise that — after housing — is their second-largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
(MBA 2007). Mobius’s founder, British entrepreneur Joel Jackson, moved to rural Kenya to work in a micro-forestry enterprise in 2009. During his field visits, he encountered the problem of expensive secondhand vehicles, many of them... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
the last five years, we’ve also become mindful that we need to understand better parts of the world that feel left behind by globalization. In 2018, I joined a group of faculty members on a trip to rural Mississippi. All of us had been to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
cancer-screening project in southern India as part of my summer internship while at HBS. We used community health workers armed with mobile phones to take pictures of oral cancer patients in rural areas and send them to Bangalore for... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
the country move around by truck, and trucks go where the people are—the East Coast, California, Dallas, Chicago, Denver. Because of that, my expectation is that vaccines will probably flow most easily to population centers—think NFL-sized cities—and then sort of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Just south of Washington, DC, on the banks of the Potomac River, sits the Crow’s Nest, a rural 6,000-acre peninsula named for a three-masted schooner, The Crow, which anchored on its shores in the 1700s. Today, much of this land is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
show the organizational executive the actual “how to” of assembling a veteran hiring effort that will be effective and economical. Historic Rural Churches of Georgia by Sonny Seals and George Hart (MBA 1970) (University of Georgia Press)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
been widely interpreted as a way to signal China’s stance on safety issues in the wake of the melamine contamination and other lapses, such as the deaths in 2004 of thirteen babies in rural Anhui Province from malnutrition after being fed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
exploited for centuries, and a better understanding of the Maasai who grace the covers of so many books about the continent. A second academic component centers on a lively case discussion about Tanzanian coffee production with representatives from TechnoServe, a... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
view that ordinary people can have a space to help in a natural disaster.” Dyson had recently returned from Nepal, where a team of 70 volunteers from all over the world has been stationed following the 2015 earthquake. The team is working in a View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
says he loved the idea of boosting domestic energy production while recycling existing sources of CO2, because he had come to HBS looking to merge his interests in business, energy, and the environment. The son of a commercial fisherman, Dawe grew up in Hawaii, on a... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
fintechs will take you over." The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of illiteracy. "I told them those potential customers knew how to use a smartphone better than we do," Shousha... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
and rural development in the areas where its workers live, funding efforts, for instance, in primary school education, agriculture, and health care. As a longtime leader of his country's business community, Bajaj is the only top executive... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg