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- 10 Aug 2015
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Creating a Pipeline of Talent to Address the World’s Challenges
kind of organization Kapila would have benefitted from when she went with the disaster-relief agency CARE to help India emerge from the Gujarat earthquake in 2001. “I was trying to develop a business plan for entrepreneurs. I had a View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
asks. “To me, that's where business comes in. If you want to create a meaningful impact with your ideas, you have to be able to devise a system that can allow your product or service to reach as many people as possible in a sustainable... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
foundations, but it also relies heavily on the generosity of individual donors, who include section mate Bill Ackman (MBA 1992) whom Callahan describes as “a brilliant, insightful person who cares about achieving extraordinary social outcomes, through effective View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Jun 2017
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A 'Pillar' of Entrepreneurship
Photo courtesy of Russ Wilcox Photo courtesy of Russ Wilcox Serial entrepreneur Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), whose ventures have included E-Ink, Transatomic Power and new life sciences startup, Piper Therapeutics, has joined Pillar, the “founder-friendly” Boston-based... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2000
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Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
constellation of brilliant, talented individuals, each held in place by countervailing forces that both pull inward and push outward. Executive "stars" are attracted and held to an organization by their belief in its mission, their sense of affiliation, their... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
As a student at HBS, Chatri Sityodtong (MBA 1999) lived on four dollars a day, teaching the martial arts discipline of Muay Thai and sending the extra cash home to his mother and brother in Bangkok. “Everything I owned could fit into a single suitcase,” he recently... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
public funding to upgrade the Reeseville, Wisconsin, water treatment plant, which processes his company’s effluent. “It’s important to assist projects that can upgrade local infrastructure and support business growth,” he explains.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
when I was growing up in the 1990s. There’s been a real change in philosophy, which entrepreneurship can build on. The Branson Centre is an accelerator operating out of Kingston that helps entrepreneurs structure their businesses for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Aug 2016
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Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
“Lionrock is my revenge against addiction,” says Peter Loeb (MBA 1991), cofounder and chief executive of Lionrock Recovery, the largest online addiction recovery program in the US and Canada. “This venture is part of my healing.” A seasoned View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
time for something new. Although she had been involved in volunteer efforts in education, the arts, and economic development since high school, Pitter-Armand’s path to a career in the nonprofit sector wasn’t obvious to her. The phrase social View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Spanish-language versions and on mobile devices. In addition to working with Tufano (soon-to-be dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford) on policy change that allows tax filers to direct some of their refunds to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
condition of his investment. As it turned out, assembling the business was relatively easy. Managing it proved nearly fatal. Perkowski was well aware that management training in China lagged decades behind the United States. Relying on... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s “Climate Change 101” The Kennedy School’s Harvard Project on Climate Agreements HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s website for alumni Follow the HBS View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Download Sunil B. Mittal profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, Ludhiana, Punjab, India 1976 Earns BA, Economics and Political Science, Panjab University 1976 Founds Bharti Enterprises 1982 Becomes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
during its ten-year existence. "Schumpeter and Cole helped define both the 'who' and 'what' of entrepreneurship," says Sarofim-Rock Professor Howard H. Stevenson. "Their scholarly focus was on the background of the entrepreneur and the accomplishments of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Closing the 'Network Gap'
Schrier. Interviews with potential advisees helped the cofounders create a viable business model. The Equity Network would be a mentor marketplace to give the next generation of Black, Latinx, and Native American View Details
Keywords: April White