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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
application — and a patent disclosure. They made a fantastic final pre-sentation about science, potential markets, and commercialization strategies. Didn’t one of the projects win an entrepreneurship competition? Each year, MIT, local... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
the organization as it has forged educational partnerships with numerous businesses and become the country's leading nonprofit resource for breast cancer information and education. NABCO is now a powerful force in patient advocacy,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration restrictions for foreigners, and a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
work there before launching Bantay—raising funds for education and rural health care. “It’s good, but not very scalable,” he says. “And also, I’m not a great fundraiser. So it would be a lot of work just to send one kid to college.” Prior... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Foundation, which helps with companies working on water resource issues. This outbreak of entrepreneurship is the result of an influx of well-educated citizens to the city. From 2007 to 2009, more people with college... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- News
Modernizing the HBS Experience
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
has the potential to become a national powerhouse. The organization is getting assistance from the HBS Partners of 63, a group of more than eighty members of the Class of 1963 who support a variety of educational initiatives. Members of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
monolith in the 1970s and ’80s. (For his part, Chidambaram confessed that when he arrived at HBS in the mid-1960s, he too was a “confirmed Socialist” and still was when he graduated. His views changed over time, he explained, when he witnessed how “socialism stilled... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
Entrepreneurship was not scaling the foundational teaching upon which the center was built. With his new book, See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success, Warshay is bringing his process to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
United States. Imagine if you’re an African American player who has never left Louisiana, and all of a sudden you find yourself in Japan. I realized very early on the importance of educating the team on how to best employ the player, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Bezos. Now a lecturer at HBS, Leschly is researching the applicability and adaptability of private-sector management practices and theory to educational reform. In addition to The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required MBA course, he teaches... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Janet Kraus, cofounder of Circles, a leader in concierge services, is HBS’s newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Founded in 1997, Circles became a $50 million company with nearly 1,000 people operating in Boston and Burlington, Ontario. After selling Circles in 2007,... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
the Lifetime Achievement Award, given to The Honorable W. Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975), United States Senator; the Entrepreneurship Award, given to Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995), founder and CEO of The IDW Group LLC; the John C.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
government and social entrepreneurship,” said Gergen. He noted that Obama has pledged to open an office of social innovation, is an advocate of community service, and has proposed $650 million for the Department of Education to work with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor Frances X. Frei, the time and... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had moved to pursue educational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
Education programs. “One objective of the case is a greater understanding of the way materials and energy flow in the modern American agricultural system. As our economy becomes more information-driven, it’s good to remind ourselves that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
because education provides the leverage to change people’s mindsets and enable them to be successful.” Cenat believes that business can be a catalyst for social change, and she is deeply grateful for the HBS financial aid that has set her... View Details
Keywords: fellowships