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- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he talks about View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Harley Frankel (MBA 1966) is dedicated to bringing change to the field of education. During a long career in education policy at the federal level, he led the National Head Start program; helped to develop the forerunner of the Pell Grant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
moved to Washington to join the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, part of a multi-billion-dollar Obama administration initiative to speed the development of a nationwide, interoperable electronic health... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Start of Coronavirus Vaccine Testing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
which developing countries faced major liquidity problems. Draper later served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations—the second-highest ranking person in the UN—and CEO of the UN’s Development... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private sector is in a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
and the resultant lack of minority role models, is what prompted Rice to develop MLT while still a student at HBS. He realized just how close he had come to missing the opportunity for a career in business, because, despite coming from a... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
cohort. They were great for education, she recalls, but progress was slow as far as gaining seats. So, Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, created a directory of the 2016 and 2017 WOB participants so the women could connect... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
new skills that boards should be developing for issues such as digital or cyber security,” she says. “And now I have a clear and personal action plan for moving forward, including what career choices I should make in the coming years to... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
Minneapolis, and San Francisco. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is principally funded by the HBS Class of 1963, will coordinate research in each district aimed at identifying the key forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
that there might just be too many activities available and too much to do, thus decreasing the serendipity of chance social encounters among residents as they crisscross the community’s lush green grounds. Even so, Marshall, a marketing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
givers was “generational, not ideological.” Reason and civility to the rescue! I was embarrassed for HBS, as I felt we had been badly trumped by KSG. But then I arrived at the article on social entrepreneurs and HBS’s View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) brings affordable sanitary pads to millions... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Extending goodwill to all in the global community
people and placed more than 215,000 people in jobs, many of whom participated in the organization’s career-training programs. When Gibbons visits Goodwill centers, the advice he gives to the people they serve is simple: “Keep hope alive, View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
develop an impact investing conference in Shanghai. On December 19, 150 pioneers in social enterprise and impact investing, other practitioners, and academics in China gathered for engaging discussions about... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
feedback on progress toward those goals. Creativity in Context by Teresa M. Amabile (Westview Press) This update of HBS professor Teresa Amabile's classic 1983 book, The Social Psychology of Creativity, includes extensive new theoretical... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase workforce diversity. As a summer intern at a solar energy View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
government and interest groups that also seek market imperfections and try to fix them through legal or social means. "These non-market forces can affect the 'rules' of competition: think of Google's continued deliberations with US and EU... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student Christina Adams (HBS 2013)... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna