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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
reusable insulated water bottles. Kauss works with designers and artists to introduce new looks every season, often in partnership with major brands such as Disney and National Geographic. Her goal, however, is not to help people look... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
it needs to make more effective public health decisions, an issue that became all the more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. “While working in East Africa before HBS, I saw the challenges of delivering public services at scale,” says... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
completion of the widening of the Panama Canal, an improvement that is expected to significantly increase export/import growth in East Coast ports, many of which are serviced by CSX. For every dollar of public money invested in Gateway,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
general manager of Special Services for NYNEX, responsible for servicing New England's largest corporate customers. Later that same year, she was named general manager of Access Markets, Marketing, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
from HBS. "These are women who know that having it all' is part of the superwoman myth," notes Hart, who designed Charting Your Course to help alumnae plan their work and family-life strategies. "It is possible, I believe, to have both... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and then B happens, but can I actually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
Operation CRUSH. Davidow put together a talented team that set an outrageously aggressive goal: 2,000 design wins. The goal, the name, the team — aggression was written all over this effort. Andy Grove was and is a tenacious and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
having Spanish speakers on the staff and leadership team. “It means we’re developing a bilingual service from the beginning.” Beyond being the right thing to do, it’s critical to Ovia’s competitive advantage, he acknowledges: “If we’re... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
Rene Solis (MBA 1958) is director of Musica en Mexico, a performing arts information service in Mexico City. In this interview he talks about how the group grew out of a personal mission to today serving a wide community of interest. “I... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing innovative ways to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
your place in it. In contrast to traditional study abroad, Global Citizen Year is designed not as a study year, but as an experiential learning year and as a year that’s focused on a deep, immersive experience that places each of our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
children. “I was faced with the challenge of how to service the loan while continuing to work at Rocket Learning full time,” says Mahajan, recalling the concerns that prompted her application to the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative's... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
have stepped up to provide free coaching to 500 small businesses in the Greater New York region. “We’d been offering alumni community service opportunities within HBSCNY for about 30 years—exclusively in the form of pro bono consulting... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
plastic body armor. Two years later, the new “Doron” body armor passed a stress test designed to quell officers’ nerves—a live demonstration that featured the firing of live rounds at an officer wearing a flak jacket filled with Doron... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
confluence. "For managers, working in the social sector can be more exciting than managing a business - your influence as a force for entrepreneurial change can make an impact beyond your organization," notes Associate Professor J. Gregory Dees, who View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science entrepreneurs and provide a further catalyst for innovation and research development," observed Mr. Blavatnik. The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator is designed to... View Details