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- 01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Dinh Thi Hoa (MBA '92) was a young girl when relatives and friends who feared for her safety spirited her out of Hanoi in the summer of 1972 to escape the fury of U.S. bombing... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Chirag Shah “A single, impoverished mother, only 15 years old, gave birth to the first baby I delivered.” In the Middle of Med School at Yale: came to HBS Inspiration for Becoming a Physician: doctors who attended to his brother’s gunshot... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
edge of the slum. “Instead we will build a great park,” he enthuses, comparing the idea with the High Line in Manhattan, the linear park built on an elevated section of disused... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
Startup Bootcamp in January 2018, working with teammates from Thailand and Australia to build a marketing platform connecting brands with influencers. Ng appreciates such opportunities and resources offered by the School, and credits the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
When MBA students returned to Soldiers Field in the fall, they had nine new second-year courses to choose from, four with an emphasis on fieldwork. For faculty, developing a course affords the opportunity to draw on research and address what they see as some View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
software company and build video games together.’” The Dreamfly’s mission is a return to a starting point for Mendhro, who was raised in rural Pakistan as the daughter of the village’s first physician, who... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Hindu/Muslim conflict. Designed for each computer to be shared by two to three students, the children work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. “The stories that have come back are incredible,” Mendhro says. “One of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
television distribution, and the global popularity of teams that aren’t tied to a specific geography, requires a whole new business model. As co-head of esports at Riot Games, Jarred Kennedy (MBA 2004) is... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
were invaluable in helping Taylor sharpen his vision for the mission. “Lynda encouraged the idea of taking a public company like AmREIT and building an incubator charity alongside it. She felt an... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
wings that cover four city blocks. Whether it's eking out extra room from unused air shafts, building up, or renovating existing gallery space to make more efficient use of it, View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Taking the Lead in Support of HBS
Angeles, CA "I support the School because I have benefited tremendously from what I learned at HBS about innovation and building businesses, especially from outstanding professors." —Jennifer Yan (MBA 2000) Partner, Steamboat Ventures... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
the Silicon Valley model of moving fast and breaking things—an early Mark Zuckerberg mantra—just doesn’t work. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Remember what Alex said in episode one about how these challenges shape frontier... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
ultimately an investment in a better world,” says Hess, “one led by alumni who build more effective, sustainable institutions and organizations and inspire hope and opportunity in communities around the world.” Hess understands the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
economy is rooted in a technology of scarcity, like fossil fuels, and there’s not enough, you get what we have today, namely, impoverished outcomes for most of humanity. If you want a society View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
and deliver those dollars directly to people in need, no strings attached. The initial response to the idea was lukewarm. GiveDirectly and a handful of other groups experimenting with cash payments were a direct challenge to both the... View Details
Keywords: April White