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01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

small town like Calhoun, Langford says. That’s more or less how he and his family came to foster a young child whose parents couldn’t care for her. The girl’s father, jailed on minor drug charges, was known... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

Small loans, big impact: “I’ve seen firsthand the impact that a $50 loan can have on a mother in Ecuador. It helps provide the circumstances for these women to become the backbone of society.” Aha moment: “I left my last corporate job... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Case Study: Golden Ticket

(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

and in-kind services. In 2001, the School established a separate track for social enterprise ventures, and in 2009 the contest opened to first-year students with the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

encountered some backlash for our efforts, but we also encountered a lot of support,” recalls DeShay, who was ultimately pleased with the town’s willingness to sit down and listen. “That hasn’t always been the case in this country,” he... View Details

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2016
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Case Study: Paper Chase

integrated, with cards made in a facility Lovepop owns in Vietnam, which allows for greater flexibility. The company is doubling its revenues quarter over quarter and reported a $1.4 million run rate in late 2015. After some View Details

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

small percent more is being built brand new). Moreover, the world’s dominant habitation pattern still consists of poor people in emerging nations flocking to urban areas to seek work. Typically, these migrants end up in illegal View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

not one of them. Let’s be clear. DM: Jeff, I wanted to take us sort of post GE at this point. Your life after GE. You're at New Enterprise Associates, which is a global venture capital firm. You've been there since 2018. View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback

WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s venture-capital firms and scores of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

as a base of operations for work in the twelve countries in the region. Yeh and her small staff are set up to provide a significant part of the intellectual and logistical... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

Room sessions to connect HBS alumni mentors to Singapore’s startups and small and mid-sized enterprises (SME). “Our vision for the NVSC is to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

respect to government and economic restructuring,” Jasinowski remarks, referring to the disruptive movement from state-owned enterprises to newer plants funded by foreign direct investment. Getting Close to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

managing partner of Ironwood Capital Partners; Ajmal Ahmady (MBA 2007), senior adviser on banking and finance to the President of Afghanistan; and Tariq Qureishy (GMP 3, 1998), CEO, futurist, View Details