Rural - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

Jon Staff

Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having grown up in a cabin in View Details

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

Portrait Project

Karina Rodriguez

My grandfather signed legal documents with his thumbprint. My dad got a sixth-grade education, and like his father before him, was destined to be a subsistence farmer. My family is from rural Mexico, and my dad understood the destiny of... View Details

26 Sep 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

Disenchanted with the corporate world, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services and made a bold career and lifestyle change, moving to rural South Australia... 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

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

Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

on special initiatives in the Ministry of Rural Development. She then moved back to McKinsey & Company's Washington D.C. office, where she had completed her summer internship during the MBA. As an Associate and then an Engagement... View Details

25 Aug 2015
News

Sunset in the East?

infrastructure (health care, education, pensions)—especially for rural people for whom none of this has ever been free or even widely available at a decent standard. To be clear, roads, railways, and the like have helped people physically... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Real Estate; Health, Social Assistance

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

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

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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

Citation

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

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 Sep 2008
News

In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people who seek his ear and prize his advice. But on a hot summer day... View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

27 Apr 2017
News

Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, Patyal started a... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Passion Projects

the career of O’Donnell’s alter ego, “John Charles,” who has now photographed teddy bears on all seven continents. His latest work is collected in TA and Wally Wander About. Rediscovering the rural churches of Georgia George S. Hart (MBA... View Details

Keywords: April White

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