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  • 10 Apr 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

    William C. Norris

    An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC factories in depressed neighborhoods... View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • 14 Oct 2014
    • News

    Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs

    Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along with addressing critical social needs, such as a company that... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2009
    • News

    Bold Idea Takes Off

    Falik Photo Courtesy Abby Falik As a teenager, Abby Falik (MBA ’08) spent a summer living in a rural Nicaraguan village, an experience that inspired her to dream of ways she could help other young people have meaningful experiences in... View Details
    Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

      Paul Henson

      Henson took a small, regional telephone company in Nebraska and transformed it into the number three telecommunications company in the United States. When Henson joined United Utilities, it had 500,000 customers, served 500 rural... View Details
      Keywords: Communications
      • 2004
      • Chapter

      The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market

      Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Urban Scope; Rural Scope
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      Abrami, Regina M., and Nolwen Henaff. "The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market." In Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam, edited by Melanie Beresford and Angie Tran. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
      • 23 Mar 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

      simplistic class analysis, that the countryside was the proper place for peasants, the cities for workers, would lead to the system of nationwide household registration and internal passports known as "hukou," which would consign View Details
      Keywords: by William C. Kirby
      • 12 Jul 2018
      • News

      In the Market for Environmental Change

      provide maple syrup to local school breakfast programs. Lots of kids in rural places, and certainly in rural Vermont, are coming to school without having had an adequate start to the day. It's been a... View Details
      • 21 Dec 2017
      • News

      A Decent Place to Live

      housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural... View Details
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      Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting

      Nashville-based startup focused on facilitating value-based care for rural Medicare populations. Main Street Health works to bridge the gap in health care access for rural communities by establishing... View Details
      • 21 Sep 2015
      • News

      A Sustainable Success Story

      Robb Turner (MBA 1990) and his wife, Lydia, were looking for a place to build a family vacation retreat in 2009 when they found 800 acres of pristine hardwood forest in rural Dover Plains, New York. “The land was stunning—completely... View Details
      • 01 Mar 2017
      • News

      Air Time

      the world. (photo courtesy of Rich Wilson) Good morning, from the Pacific Ocean! #VG2016 #sitesALIVE Cited “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need... View Details
      • 24 Apr 2014
      • News

      A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements

      In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
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      Gary Shi

      focusing on microfinance that helps farmers improve their farms, improve their lives.” Gary has been back to China in both his winter and spring breaks to “learn more about what’s happening in rural areas.” For his summer internship, he... View Details
      • 02 Mar 2020
      • News

      Cheese Whiz

      through a range of initiatives, including a complimentary employee shuttle service, free and subsidized child care, and classes in emotional intelligence. “Rural America is the Detroit of 2008,” Scharfman said. “As a model for revitalizing View Details
      Keywords: manufacturing; labor; innovation; cheese; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
      • 15 Nov 2016
      • News

      Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

      inadequacy of facilities in rural areas. “Basic health care is not accessible to a majority of Indian people,” she observes, noting that conditions in remote villages “drain life and productivity” from the entire country. In contrast, in... View Details
      • 01 Jun 2017
      • News

      Starting Lineup: Values Proposition

      designed to be inexpensive and widely available. Saathi, the winner of the 2014 HBS New Venture Competition in the social enterprise track, began distribution in 2016 and launched its #OneMillionPads program to donate pads to the women of View Details
      • 01 May 2013
      • News

      Experience of a Lifetime

      Growing up in rural North Carolina between two towns with fewer than 300 people combined, Duke Buchan dreamed big. After living in Spain during high school and college, and earning a BA in economics and Spanish at the University of North... View Details
      • 12 Sep 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

      In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 24 Apr 2014
      • News

      Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship

      Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
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