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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
successful door-to-door salesmen. Yunus described several sustainable “social businesses” (all profits to the enterprise) he has launched in Bangladesh. They include Grameenphone, which put cell phones into the hands of millions of poor, View Details
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
in person by university staff. “Many grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” explains Condo. More than 80 percent receive scholarships, supported by donors and foundation grants. Founded in 1989, the... 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
- Profile
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
Robert E. Wood
implement his vision. Building the stores in urban areas so as not to further detract from the catalog-driven rural business, Wood’s chain stores were immensely successful. In addition to this success, Wood created the Allstate Insurance... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Amos Hostetter, Jr.
With a few thousand dollars, Hostetter and a partner embarked on the development of a small cable company in the early sixties. Beginning with two small towns in Ohio, Continental Cablevision grew by providing better reception to rural... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
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Lorrayne Ward
align incentives across the public and private sectors by distributing medicine to rural areas via the existing network of drugstores. Profits for shopkeepers, more lives saved for society – a perfect plan, I had naively thought. But I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
Edward DeBartolo
In 1950, DeBartolo built Boardman Plaza in Youngstown, Ohio, considered one of the first suburban malls in the United States. The success of this mall sparked a major investment and development campaign which led to the construction of hundreds of malls in suburban and... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 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 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim has studied or written about in cases that examine approaches to performance measurement. (See "A Case for Performance Management" below; others include the Robin Hood Foundation, Action-Aid International, the Aga Khan Rural... 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... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
workwear company, Red Ants Pants. Sarah, her team, and hundreds of volunteers were gearing up for the annual Red Ants Pants Music Festival. Proceeds go to the company’s non-profit foundation, supporting women’s leadership, family farms, and View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Uncharted Territory
(Uncharted Play) (Uncharted Play) Jessica Matthews’s (MBA 2014) startup Uncharted Play made headlines when it debuted Soccket, a soccer ball that captures kinetic energy to power a lamp. The simple idea could change life in poor, rural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Pitch for Change
Canada, Aldi Haryopratomo’s (HBS ’11) Ruma took top honors with its kit for cellphone entrepreneurs in poor, rural areas of Indonesia. Nearly 1,400 people attended the student-organized conference, held jointly at HBS and the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Africa Looks Ahead
"How do you transform the economy? You've got to provide the basic infrastructure for people to transform their own lives. You're killing many birds with one stone. If people have power, the welder in the rural area can make money, a... View Details
Juan Leungli
Growing up, Juan watched his family transition from being farmers in a small village in rural China to becoming restaurateurs in Mexico City – Juan loves working with equally passionate and driven entrepreneurs. Juan is a Co-founder and... View Details
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Laura Dries Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Making Donor Dollars Work: Measuring Impact in Rural Ecuador Laura Dries 22 Feb 2018... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Robert McNamara Dies at 93
New York Times wrote (July 6, 2009), “McNamara became president of the World Bank and devoted evangelical energies to the belief that improving life in rural communities in developing countries was a more promising path to peace than the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2016
- News
The 124-Year-Old Startup
eightfold. The company’s upcoming move from suburban Connecticut to Boston should also help with recruitment. “Sitting in a rural setting, you can never be scared enough of what’s next,” Immelt said. “You just can’t be. You can’t be... View Details