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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Yusuf Keshavjee Some years ago, Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) was driving near Lake Victoria in Kenya when he noticed vendors by the roadside selling honey. Not an unusual sight in Africa, but it got Keshavjee to thinking about issues facing local farmers: branding,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as Ecuador, Thailand, and Tanzania.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social venture tracks. The final round of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
second years in the MBA Program, when she worked for McKinsey in Tanzania on a program to make socialist villages economically viable. Joining the World Bank's Young Professionals Program after earning her Harvard degree, Barry soon made... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
going use my resources, I really started to think about what had I been given, and therefore, that caused me to be grateful and then think about what, therefore, can I give. One of the most formative giving experiences I had was when I went to View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
telecoms, but public outcry from the service disruptions was so intense that the attacks eventually stopped. The power of that human connection will no doubt continue to be one of the strongest forces in the country’s future development. As Roshan expands into Burundi,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
universities across the country, the letter read, in part: “It is your turn to show that managers and CEOs can leverage their influence and resources to benefit their own frontline employees.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Supporting Students on Their Journeys Increasing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that America’s embassies in Kenya... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
their classmates who benefit from the unique perspectives represented in every HBS MBA class. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Supporting Students on Their Journeys Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania Embracing Activism for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep switchbacks before we reach the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at over one thousand locations... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
paths. Clif Darden worked in economic development in the United States and Tanzania before returning to HBS to earn his DBA in 1982. His career in academia culminated in a tenured professorship in organizational theory and management at... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
executed the action plan, and monitored progress—with enthusiasm, charm (I hope), and fervor. Result: We beat the goal and tripled the number of women in high-level jobs in the first year. Mamongae Mahlare (MBA 2004), marketing manager, SABMiller, Dar Es Salaam, View Details