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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. “For many small businesses, that meant tough times got even tougher, which inspired us to look for alternative solutions that put people first,” Dyer says. Ezeji-Okoye asked Dyer, who had worked as an View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
endeavors to nurture businesses in emerging economies and promote sustainable sources of energy, show his continuing determination to bridge the gap between policies and people. In the course of one two-week trip last May, James... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
organizing events, prospecting for new members, and traveling to Albany and Washington to meet with lawmakers, also volunteers his time and expertise to the Rainforest Alliance — an international conser-vation organization — while pursuing a variety of private View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
savings, security, and transparency for both the payer and the recipient, and they can serve as the spark for larger societal change, Goodwin-Groen explains. “Digital financial inclusion can build a foundation for achieving the United Nations’ View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
revenue share on transactions and provide curated fulfillment/logistics. —Tony Chao (MBA 2007) Stay the course and focus only on made-to -order, which is the best way to build a sustainable competitive advantage. The made-to-order model... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
have now returned to work, but not as the same person who left. As an individual, I will “take less,” in many ways. As a businessperson, what I have learned will affect every investment decision I make. Sustainability, or the lack of it,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
like investing in sustainability or anything that is an impact fund. So a corporation B, where it’s not just about return on investment, but it’s also about having an impact in our environment, in our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
new billing requirements, insurance eligibility, and patient communication regulations. We respond as soon as new developments arise.” Investments in constant innovation will make it difficult to sustain the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence by Larry E. Fast (PMD 52, 1986) (Productivity Press) Fast explains how to implement and sustain a top-down, comprehensive... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
through teaching the course that I’ve come to believe that corporations have to think beyond their own boundaries to a broader concern with the health of the institutions on which we all rely. In the second year I taught the course with Clayton Rose, who had worked as... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
environmental sustainability and inclusive growth. “This is a cultural landscape. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves in development and ruin all this heritage,” he says. For AlMadani, that means a commitment to preserving the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
and growing and sustaining the enterprise. "We can't teach people how to come up with ideas, but we can teach them how to analyze ideas already available to them," he explains. "We also teach that entrepreneurs must react quickly not only... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
more instability and risk. Such a climate can, in turn, reduce the investment — especially in long-term, risk-inherent areas such as R&D; — that is necessary for rapid, long-run growth. So what, finally, can be done to boost productivity?... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career researchers, making a long-term investment in the most promising scientists in the field. “The grants they provided are high-octane fuel,” says Dr. Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
how knowledgeable and proactive the firms we visited were about sustainability; some of them are far ahead of firms in the developed world. They understand that it’s essential to their long-term survival.” Similarly, the group was impressed by regional View Details