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- 24 Apr 2014
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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
- 13 Jul 2015
- News
Empowering entrepreneurs in Africa
Maimouna Diakhaby (MBA 2016), who came to HBS because of its leadership focus, plans to return to Africa to help empower deprived communities through entrepreneurship. (Published July 2015) 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
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning... View Details
- 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
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
for the entire community beginning this fall. Through these collective projects, Harvard is making critical investments and stewarding its Allston campus as part of a larger picture of innovation and View Details
- 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
- 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
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
offices. Burwick managed all of this, the article notes, while guiding the company through a transition from public entity to private ownership. Before joining Peet’s, Burwick worked at PepsiCo and as president of Weight Watchers North... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
commonalities these icons could find over a few pints. The result is Schultz’s new book, Innovation on Tap: Stories of Entrepreneurship from the Cotton Gin to Broadway's Hamilton, and on this episode of Skydeck, he and I discuss what two... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
this without the on-the-ground project experience and guest speakers from those classes.” What was the experience of being on Shark Tank like? Wiegele: “The process itself was incredibly helpful, which may be an odd thing to say, but it forces you to think 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
scholarships to study in Canada and the United States. Recently named a “Global Visionary” by the Swiss bank UBS, Balares is founder and CEO of Womensphere Foundation, a nonprofit that supports women’s advancement in leadership, innovation, and View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
the greater New York area to contribute, learn, and make a continuing impact. The Club supports: New York area nonprofits through Community Partners, one of the largest pro bono consulting programs in the city; workforce development View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
members arrived at Kenya’s State House in Nairobi to meet with the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, as part of the School’s faculty immersion in Africa. “Business and entrepreneurship are ingrained in the Kenyan psyche, whether it is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
SPNM scholarship program a primary focus of its fundraising activities because the program’s impact in the region is so far-reaching. “Our members have been most motivated to give back to the community through SPNM,” says Panoff. “This is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley