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Connie Walsh
services for a healthcare NFP called Helping Hands. Prior to Staples, Connie worked in strategic marketing and brand management at Harvard Business School, Kraft Foods and Johnson & Johnson. Connie also... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
offering insights from a variety of industries and professional backgrounds. One, for example, proposed a dynamic pricing algorithm for supermarkets to cut down on food waste, while another suggested a mobile app that could store receipts... View Details
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Michelle Lee
Tapping entrepreneurial resources As her passion for sharing her treats grew through running Treat House Bakery and working part-time at a couple bakeries, Michelle realized she wanted to make the move into the food View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
and its reviews drop from three stars to two—does the rating system pick up on this change in a timely manner that is meaningful to diners? Is the same merit placed on old reviews as new ones? How will a diner know that the food and menu... View Details
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Lucia Cuneo Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
business as he rescued Big Blue, then a stumbling mainframe-computer giant, and rebuilt it into a powerful but nimble information-technology company. Judith R. Haberkorn (AMP 111, 1992) The retired president for consumer sales and View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
by Maureen Harmon Blaine Favel Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) grew up on Cree Indian reservation. His father was a chief, as was his grandfather before him. "It was a true democracy back then," says Favel, when a chief served at the will of the people. Favel recalls his... View Details
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Ashley McCray
of college, I conducted my own medical research in rural Tanzania. While there, I realized my passion for helping people was not in medicine but food, specifically food insecurity. I came back from that trip and decided to not apply to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the beginning—taxi by taxi, they knocked on drivers’ windows, trying to convince them to join the service. Tan says they went as far as buying smartphones for drivers who didn’t own one. Now available throughout Southeast Asia, Grab has acquired Uber’s ride-hailing... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
commissary kitchen into PHA that will be used to make compostable bioplastic products for the kitchen’s own food service operations. Since the bacteria that produce PHA also eat it, anything made from the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
The Joys of Cooking
THE JOYS OF COOKING: Bibi Kasrai (MBA '96) has hit an entrepreneurial sweet spot as the Harvard Cookie Girl. After years in high-tech marketing and non-profit fundraising, Bibi Kasrai (MBA ’96) found a way to blend her talent for business with her passion for cooking.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The 'multiplier effect' of supporting education
André Jakurski (MBA 1973), founding partner/managing director of JGP Asset Management, and his wife, Maria, generously support various organizations that provide direct services in Rio de Janiero as well as educational institutions,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Clubs News Clubs News Boston Alumni Find Leadership Inspiration in Project Impact Series Hunger and food insecurity. Racial justice. Youth and education. These issues have served as the central organizing topics for Project Impact, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
help grow the brand. “The trade-off was that the investment resulted in their having a majority stake in the company and ultimately taking control of it,” Philp says. “For me it was a positive experience in the sense that we launched a brand and found an exit for it.... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
fast-growing food service sector. Internationally, the plan sets out a vision of Brasil Foods evolving from an exporter to a true multinational. The team believes their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
community impact, and building relationships.” The gathering, which was held in a suite perched high above the court in Fiserv Forum, included a chance for attendees to do some networking before the main talk, and enjoy food and drinks... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the rapidly growing world of online... View Details