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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
inventory, meet payroll, or make some improvements to your business,” says Kehinde. “So all the data points we collect are around that, the team we hired are experts in that, and the technology we built is based on that.” Lidya has View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
research directly to the community. To that end, the Life Lab has pledged to provide a one-time grant totaling over $60,000 to fully fund the purchase of Chromebook laptops to provide every Allston-Brighton public school student access to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
superintendent. Whether that individual is an educator or not doesn’t matter — leadership is what counts.” Resident Executives Trying to achieve similar change in the New York City school system is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) who was View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
devices, K-12 education, and lost income. By May 1, they had more than 18,000 users across all 50 states and were deploying $11,000 monthly in granted and donated ad spend. Working with several Harvard groups (including alumni), Community... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
high odds, which Ed chronicles in his recent book On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom. READ MORE Courtesy Ed Hajim Courtesy Ed Hajim In 1939 Ed Hajim's parents divorced and his mother was View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
granting that she still defines success by the typical benchmarks of money and responsibility, the former VC partner also recounts a recent conference she and her husband had with her son's teacher. "She said he was very smart, and he's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation committees not holding the line, as Jay noted. They granted packages that ensured their executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
(MBA 2001), managing director at Bain Capital, and Corey Thomas (MBA 2002), chairman and CEO of Rapid7, are among the 19 Black and brown business leaders in Boston who created the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund. The fund will be used to issue... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
housing department and helping to set up the deployment of Detroit’s $28 million share from the American Rescue Plan. Although the fellowship grant that augments her salary has ended, Mendu has extended her stint with the city to be... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
and was recently appointed to chair the HBS Doctoral Programs. Never expecting to stand in front of a classroom herself, she remembers taking for granted her professors' skills in leading discussions. "Much to my chagrin later on, I did... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
that the mayor’s beach house was there on exactly the same basis.” At that point it was time to return to MIT, but Mawilmada believes the government eventually granted an upgrade to the settlement. That experience was a turning point.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
can’t possibly build, the capacity to directly serve even a significant portion of them. So what to do? With a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bridgespan has launched a “Great Giving” initiative that will build... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
bid. The company that would become Roshan was granted a license in January 2003. At that point, the clock began ticking on an immediate goal: launching cell phone service in five Afghan cities by July. A Roshan billboard overlooks a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
country's consumer markets. "All those things Americans take for granted were only available to the top 15 percent of the population," says Chu. Now, those things—cars, appliances, electronics, better housing—are increasingly accessible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
approach. Explains Hood, “Science is hard, and we will have failures; we must accept that we at the leading edge won’t always be successful. But if we start worrying about investing only in grants that have a high degree of success, then... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
which also featured a fireside chat by guest speaker Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987), CEO of Warnermedia Studios and Networks. The Rising Star pendant The Rising Star Award is a necklace and star pendant designed by HBSWANY board members Susan View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding stock grants without... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
In the course of conducting research, each team can apply for and receive a grant of $1,000 to defray expenses — the telephone bills, plane tickets, and office supplies incurred by any budding start-up. Faculty advisors provide an early... View Details