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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to meet and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
If it weren’t for my father, I wouldn’t be at HBS today.” —JH Dan Gertsacov Gertsacov and HBS rugby mates outside Harvard Stadium. Many people view the relationship between business and social good as a trade-off. Dan Gertsacov does not.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
London’s congestion fee, for example, might be waived for shared rides. We know that consumers care about the price, but we’re also finding that once passengers get into a shared ride they actually enjoy meeting new people and being the View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
small administrative team, and a network of experts have focused on 15 candidates for consideration in the first round of funding. The nonprofit expects to award grants to three to five organizations when it launches in 2022. In addition... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
club, and plans are underway to expand the alliance between LGBTQ alumni and current HBS students and to develop a steady roster of events and activities. The first of these will be a series of social View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Big Data for Social Good from Harvard Online Business Analytics Data Privacy and Technology from Harvard Online Data Science for Business from Harvard View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
eastern European country. Funded exclusively by donations and with an army of volunteers, the online database can help find family ancestry dating back more than 200 years. It is also a critical resource in connecting people with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
a little deeper. The students pointedly but diplomatically inquire how CB can create positive social change with a program that charges annualized lending rates as high as 78 percent and offers no support or business guidance to a largely... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
(photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) (photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) Much has happened in the ten years since Sal Khan (MBA 2003) started making short videos to tutor his niece in math, an offhand effort that snowballed into Khan Academy, an online... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
culture, including misogyny, racism, and online harassment—she might not always feel welcome. Sarah Bond (MBA 2006) turned to Spencer, her gaze direct, and said, “Phil, my aunt died yesterday. She was a colonel in the Army in the era of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
Mikitani (MBA 1993) is not shy about pursuing the big idea, in this case a belief that English is the lingua franca of business and learning it would give his organization a competitive edge. Rakuten, founded in 1997, operates an online... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
conjunction with the Social Enterprise Initiative, gives nonprofit leaders the tools to look at their operations from a strategic level. The giving goes both ways, however. The faculty—including Alnoor Ebraham, Allen Grossman, Janice... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Science Buddy
extensive information and guidance about developing their topics of choice. Last April, Science magazine awarded ScienceBuddies.org its Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). Said Hess, “During 2010, around 10 million... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with a few of my friends," Doerr told an audience of nearly one thousand HBS students who had gathered for his presentation, offered as part of the Social Enterprise Speaker Series. Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, Doerr has played... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
Through the Southern African Development Community Business School Network he established with the University of Botswana and the University of Pretoria, Richard America (MBA 1965) is on a mission to help train first-rate managers in the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
thinking into those endeavors, in the realm of child protection," says Brochu. She explains that criminal networks operate much like legitimate enterprises. As a result, her business degree has made a difference in her work, as has her... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
criticism of its early social media marketing campaign targeting teens. Then Toffel, who is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, poses a tough question: “What should JUUL do now, given the pressure that it’s under... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
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Learning to Fight
nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects.... View Details