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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
it needs to make more effective public health decisions, an issue that became all the more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. “While working in East Africa before HBS, I saw the challenges of delivering public services at scale,” says... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
value for patients, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. Porter recently talked about the book. The American model of health-care delivery is largely private and competitive. Yet costs are soaring, access is restricted, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
general manager of Special Services for NYNEX, responsible for servicing New England's largest corporate customers. Later that same year, she was named general manager of View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
club operations, development of continuing education, and the marketing of programs and services to alumni. Three committees have been formed to focus on these issues, and they are presently hard at work assessing the current status of... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them. The pandemic has laid bare and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Open Market Joyce I. Greenberg - Take Good Care Monique Maddy - African Communications Group Steven C. Walske - Parametric Technology Corp. Indeed, from "paperless" magazines to services that search for hard-to-find foreign news stories,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower cost for their companies. A survey conducted among large employers this... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
thought, when he came across a brochure for the service a few years back at a reunion. Here, in the library of his alma mater, was one of the broadest set of subscriptions and databases—and the researchers who know how to use them to best... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
a normal conversation." In addition to counseling Sanders on how to proceed with his planned career in the investment management industry, Welch offered a sneak preview of his new autobiography, Jack: Straight from the Gut. "He advised me to start off at a larger firm... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
Mikitani (MBA 1993) is not shy about pursuing the big idea, in this case a belief that English is the lingua franca of business and learning it would give his organization a competitive edge. Rakuten, founded in 1997, operates an online mall and related View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
street kids — five- and six-year-olds living by their wits, selling things on the street, with no access to education or hope for the future. I thought about everything my parents had done to give us the best education possible, and it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
transaction fees, advertising fees, application services fees, partnering revenue, and cross-subsidization (using revenue from selling applications to subsidize other components of the business). This is often the most difficult aspect of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
of health-care finance and access, this simple innovation could help make things better today. Could you talk about your idea of “citizen diplomats”? In comparison with our massive defense spending, the U.S. Foreign Service budget is very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
Illustration: Chris Gash Illustration: Chris Gash The internet grew up inordinately fast. It all happened so quickly, in fact, that it blew right by the accessibility guidelines that would’ve made digital tools available to everyone, regardless of their age or ability,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
serving on the HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors. After earning his MBA, Gibbons returned to AT&T to head its subsidiary, Campus Wide Access Solutions, a $15 million company providing cash-card operations to colleges and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Photo courtesy of James Ellerker Photography The Question: There’s a necessary element of bulk in the rental business—if you only needed one or two pieces you’d just buy them, Giridharadas says. Her question is how to get there. A chef View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism by which to bring financial... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.”... View Details