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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
with families and responsibilities." Looking back, she says she's grateful for the ministry's supportive culture. "We were all focused and intellectually driven to address the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
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Family Welfare Good source for information on healthcare policy and efforts of the national government to improve access to healthcare. View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
Things may not have looked this bleak for African Americans in a long time, but at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in eastern Long Island, which serves many of the area's black families -- including Daniels's own -- you'd never know... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
profits would have to go to charity. "To make money off that would be so tacky," he noted. From the outset, Newman eschewed costly market research and ignored industry wisdom that new product launches initially lose substantial sums of... View Details
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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
earned, the firm improved its operations and branched out into ancillary services such as insurance and banking and even an ice company and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
Early every Tuesday morning, Karen Gordon Mills leaves her house in Brunswick, Maine, and embarks on her weekly commute to Manhattan. She spends the next several days immersed in her work as managing director of a new private-equity firm,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are pulled not from economists but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household income, the medical and social spillovers of disease onto other... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Consulta uses production line best practices to deliver fast, reliable, affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
An Educated Investment Safeena Husain was the first in her family to attend university overseas—so being admitted to the London School of Economics was cause for celebration, even if her father had to sell his business to pay for tuition... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
they love. I want them to have the nerve to pursue something that they are passionate about. Biggest disappointment What is, is. I don't look back, I just focus on what's coming next. Proudest moments Mostly personal moments with my View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) Bob Ryan (MBA 1970), the first in his family to attend college, has come a long way from his Detroit roots. When the former chief financial officer (CFO) of Medtronic set up a fellowship fund at HBS, he wanted to pay... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
revitalization of our Historical Collections and HBS Archives department, which includes treasures as wide-ranging as the fifteenth-century Medici family account books, whaling records from... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Blog Post
Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers
it painful, most of it positive. One of the reasons she adjusted the business model was a prevailing disinclination among women for spending on themselves. "Many women will spend money on their kids' camps and other View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
tremendous violence—not just poverty, but also narco-terrorism, notorious corruption, high murder rates. These children make their own way from Central America through Mexico and they arrive at the southern border of United States alone.”... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
is that thing,” Verdi says. “It’s one of the top three causes of our age,” adds Swartz. Both the Verdi and Swartz families have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed treatment... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates
Challenge (1996) and The Real Estate Game (1999). His research concerns the entrepreneurial process in large and small companies, capital formation in real estate, and the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
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Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS
stronger bond with a smaller group of students and made the section feel like “home”. Families and significant others are welcome to join in all section events. Children were a... View Details