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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
HBS has long been a global leader in shaping the practice of management education and research. HBS faculty have helped establish some of the world’s leading business schools. More recently, the School’s global research centers have ensured HBS faculty direct View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
’08/MPA ’09). Both have been named HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2010 and awarded $25,000 grants to advance their enterprises. Brehm, along with his wife, Faith, is cofounder of the online venture AbilityTrip (www.abilitytrip.com), which aggregates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chinese Executives Give IXP Program a Boost
Experience Program (IXP) in China. The IXP program provides MBA students with two weeks of field-based experience during the January Term. The China IXP Fund “is a pathbreaking gift,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, faculty chair of the IXP program. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
Baker Library) and accessed with the DECmate housed in a VT100 terminal cabinet. At first I was envisioning Doris and Val at their Decmates inputting all the data for some 38,000 alumni, but no, the keypunched cards allowed alumni data to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
it across in a very limited amount of time—typically threeto five-minute learning segments that build on each other. That turned out to be a complicated challenge,” says Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. “The methodology is opening... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
Through broadband and cutting-edge technologies, the company offers cable customers a "parallel" Internet to the one presently accessed by telephone lines - one that is faster, more convenient, always on, and provides its own content... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Shining Knight
to think responsibly about the distribution of their wealth," he explained of the move. Knighted in 2005, Ogden, who holds a PhD in theoretical physics, is from a working-class background. That has influenced the thrust of his charitable trust, which is to make elite... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
closures happened—Santa Clara, where I live, was one of the first counties that had a stay-in-place order—it became one of those situations where you look left and look right, and think, ‘I guess this is us. Students are going to need to keep learning,’” says Khan.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Crazy Days of Summer
invented the fad. Photos of their stunts (do not attempt in winter) had over 500,000 views just hours after being posted on their website. Leisure diving went viral, Foy said, because anyone with access to a pool or lake can do it.... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- News
Banking’s Regular Rescuer
boost the bank's profits by $500 million this year and will give it access to many wealthy clients. While some observers raise concerns about the ever-growing reach of JPMorgan, others see the bank and its CEO serving the public good.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry
Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999) wants to change the landscape for biomedical financing. The cofounder of VentureHealth, an online funding platform based in Silicon Valley, Farquharson leverages deals with investors who want access to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
the lands will be managed sustainably in perpetuity, and, in many cases, the assurance of public access to the land for recreation,” he explains. Based in Hanover, New Hampshire, Lyme is recognized as a leader in conservation investing,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Connecting past to present
extensive resources into an easy option for families across the globe. “By leveraging technology, the Internet, and network-effect scale, we’ve sparked mainstream interest in family history by making it accessible to millions of people... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved ones with View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
traditional educational materials since they don’t have access to the internet or computers. Grumhaus says that while NCCP has managed to find ways to still support its constituencies, it has been difficult to maintain the close... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
people who are gaining access everyday," Davis noted, "it's making the personal computer revolution in the early 1980s look tame." Titled "The Digital Field of Dreams," Cyberposium '97 was cochaired by Mike Dodd and Thomas Hoegh (both... View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These individuals, because of their collective size, will likely redefine the concept of banking and financial access in the future.” Working in developing countries is both... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
decade. Even though women start businesses at twice the rate of men, their access to capital has been limited, says Dodi, who launched WVCF with fellow HBS alumna Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) and with the support of female HBS... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
children. “We need to ensure that India’s children have access to quality education to help them realize their true potential,” says Mittal. The foundation has also set up specialized centers for higher education and research, such as the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer.... View Details