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- 30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort
sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. About 25 percent of Hope and Comfort’s inventory comes through direct donations—from corporations, from hygiene drives hosted by schools, religious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
she could help. In an open message on LinkedIn, she offered her own contacts and experiences to any Black college student or recent graduate interested in the finance or tech sectors. “The next morning, my entire calendar was booked up,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
appreciative of warmth, shelter, a shower—all those things you generally take for granted." But, Petzel adds, he also feels an obligation to give back. Based in London, where he works for Goldman Sachs, he became acquainted with Community... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Stobaugh, an energy-industry veteran, could be forgiven for saying, “I told you so.” But as a consummate gentleman, that’s not Stobaugh’s style. Instead, all he need do is open up Energy Future, the 1979 book he coedited with Daniel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
incredible source of opportunity for entrepreneurial activity.” SHIRLEY LU, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Shirley Lu conducts research on how companies communicate environmental and social... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Apr 2014
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SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
menstrual pads by sourcing local, inexpensive raw materials, such as banana fibers. Launched in Rwanda, the businesses are owned and operated by women and can be replicated wherever need exists. The result is better health and hygiene for... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
(D^3), a lab-based research model that will draw faculty, students, and alumni from across the University to reinvent how companies compete and thrive in the 21st century. "How will we do this?" he said. "By focusing on big problems, on an View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
businesses concentrating on the bottom of the pyramid, such as microfinance, could profit from using the same tools and approaches as any other financial institution. “I hired a team that is a classic private-equity, venture-capital team,” he says. “They View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." "It's a way of thinking about disease that wasn't View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What we're doing boosts employee... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
especially proud of the numbers inside the fairgrounds. About 71,000 guests attended the 17-day festival last year. "We are wholeheartedly involved, the community feels that, and the enthusiasm is contagious," he says. Appling's path to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
community development, and other conservation efforts in Africa, South Asia, and South America. “The conduit by which we do all of that is exposing guests to experiences that bring to life the wonder of the land, wildlife, and people,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
manifested in individual women," McGinn stresses. "It's evident in family and community dynamics and local and national economics. We can see how change happens woman by woman, family by family, and View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
endowment and foundation boards. The Network Effect Ma has found the HBS alumni network to be particularly valuable both throughout her career and in her personal life. “The alumni community is a group of people with shared values. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
intelligence community doing on that score? Intelligence issues are enormously complex, and I should say right at the outset that Mike and I are only beginning to learn about these matters. And by the way, we don’t have security... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
displayed only in a museum. So, a few years after his retirement from Caldic in 2006, on the site of a historic country estate surrounded by 100 acres of forests, meadows, and sand dunes on the Netherlands’ west coast, he built one. Museum Voorlinden View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
source of income in “coffee beans,” the in-app virtual currency that can be used to buy additional features. When the Shark Tank episode aired in January 2015, that model earned Coffee Meets Bagel the biggest offer from an investor in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
been at for the last 50 years. It starts opening doors to rationalize a new economy that isn’t as dependent on oil as the economy we created. What steps should we take now to prepare for an oil shortage? You’ve really got to go to a sort... View Details