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- 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 advantage. B4B View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
the vast majority of people can't afford them. So the vision was how can we use technology to create a service that is as good but is also scalable? And that's where we took inspiration from my personal background—having worked at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
hands-on therapeutic technique, and then in 2009 opened his own studio using the “standard business model,” he says, of clients paying for classes. But he increasingly heard people say they didn’t do yoga because they couldn’t afford it.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
and you capture carbon; and it’s a natural consequence of growing grains, growing row crops,” he observes. Wiviott and SFP have come up with a win-win, market-based way of getting farmers to go organic. The model affords investors the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
rounds. “Many physicians don’t have opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction,” Amadio says, “but we can’t afford not to be interdisciplinary. Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician. We have been at the medical... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
special public protections and oversight. Because it’s scarce, it has an economic value, but that value must be affordable to the communities we serve.” Based in New Jersey, American Water is part of the British multinational RWE Thames... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
appreciate a certain level of service, and you can afford to provide it, which is fun. You want to be able to train people extensively, pay them well, and have your customers really value the results.” SmartPak’s road to the future will... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
continues to build in teaching lessons here and there, so I’m improving, but I’ve still got some ground to make up.” What do you find most challenging about the work? What do you find most rewarding? MGA: “The most rewarding part of PowerUP is giving other kids the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
afford these patients a better quality of life for a longer period of time. It could be the first new treatment for ALS in nearly 25 years and the first one to potentially affect muscle function and strength as well as hopefully preserve... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
a boy," he recounts. "At home, we ate rice and could only afford roti, a type of bread, on holidays. I thought my uncle must be rich, because his family ate roti every night. "I saw billboards for the first time and bragged to my friends... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Wyoming, and then traveling to Alaska to work his way up through the hierarchy. The schedule — a 12-hour shift for 28 straight days — quickly weeded out wimps. “When I started, my name was rabbit choker,” he says. “They told me, ‘You kids from South Dakota are so poor... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
school board more satisfying than sitting in Congress because he was actually doing something. He is not alone, and there are a lot of reasons for it. But we cannot afford that. We need enough new people to come in and question it, people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Gates said, does many things well, but the inspiration for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation came in part from a market failure in health-care delivery. Individuals who live in areas where tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria are still common are often too poor to View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
States to provide affordable housing. Song knew of Habitat before coming to HBS, but didn’t fully understand the organization’s model until it was the focus of a case discussion. “I always thought that Habitat was just building homes and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
machine. The grace period afforded people the time to make significant investments like that. The second strand of our work is developing new ways to identify which borrowers have high-growth opportunities. Microfinance often operates in... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
involved in Scranton, a city just over two hours away from New York with the potential to outgrow its punch-line status and draw millennials looking for affordable housing and a higher quality of life. Then, over lunch at Caravia, a... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
isolated. Ascending to ubiquity from the car-obsessed America of the late 1950s, McDonald’s became a common language and a cultural export—an affordable and dependable escape. For decades, McDonald’s was a place to feel good. How could... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
auto factories, Rogers adds, the number can be closer to $1 billion.) “What if you put it on the Home Depot floor, and you sell only 3,000?” says Venkat. “So you better be right. You can’t afford many misses,” Nolan adds. Which might... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
governments on the cost savings her program can provide. She says Reset is working to scale up toward a cost structure that is more affordable than prison {which in some states can cost more than $100,000 per year per inmate), with... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios