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- 19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
to try to help much. At MAYA, this is completely different. Our investing team is responsible not only for finding new, great opportunities for investment but also for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2023
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That Was Then, This Is Now
graduation took me from consulting to corporate social responsibility and now to the nonprofit C-suite in pursuit of impact in the United States. I still feel energized by the challenges but with age has... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
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New School
and children drew him to the company in 2008. Waldron had spent most of his career in the education sector, working for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in mission-driven and profit-driven settings. His experiences had convinced him that View Details
- 23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
She launched the nonprofit consulting practice at the Parthenon Group. Then in 2010, her friend Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who had built Social Finance UK with David Blood (MBA 1985), was looking to expand the organization. “Tracy had... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care
investment from Ambit Health Ventures, a medical venture capital fund, and is supported by HBS Angels of Boston. Following on earlier donations to Ukraine, in March Teodorescu and a contingent of volunteers and doctors delivered 50... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics
sticker from the nonprofit. While the women discuss their respective micro-enterprises and how they might invest their pooled savings, Cruz’s adopted daughter plays with some children nearby. For Trickle Up president and CEO Nathalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
your marketing budget is stretched, you can get more bang for your buck by investing in certain aspects of the journey more than others,” De Freitas says. He advises maintaining a consistently positive or “building” experience: “The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
social or environmental responsibilities are embedded in a company’s fiduciary duties. Naive as it may sound, the evidence is there, says Jones: “Business has this amazing ability to innovate, to come up... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
I'm feeling, and I don't want you to solve my feelings, I want you to empathize. And then there's Social Conversations, which is about how we relate to each other and the social identities that are important... View Details
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
Social Purpose of the Firm is a three-day course developed by HBS’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society that examines, among other topics, economic development, responsible AI, climate... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
didn’t realize that we had shared professional interests,” Model recalls, laughing. “It was just a social thing.” Only after graduation would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model, who had a background in View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
is that I view people going into startups as essentially making an investment with their careers. And, if you look at the other side of the coin of who invests in startups—venture capitalists, angel... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
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Fueling the Faculty Pipeline
“brought finance to life for me,” he says. In addition to being an excellent teacher, Glauber introduced Melwani in 1985 to Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972), cofounder of Blackstone, the firm Melwani joined in 2003 and where he is now senior managing director, global chief... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
came in the field of health care, the firm’s investments now include software, communications technology, semiconductors and electronics, and financial services. With nearly $15 billion under management and over 140 employees, Summit has... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
supervisors and chatted with workers in green jumpsuits. She then sped over to DSNY headquarters, just a few blocks north of City Hall, to discuss the details of the agency’s emergency snow response with her executive team. “Don’t screw... View Details
- 18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers
became clear—through social media channels and focus groups—that women needed more support. So LXME 2.0 launched in 2021 with education at its core. This shift included community-sourced discussions, planning tools, View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon