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- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
I found my professional North Star as an undergraduate student while studying abroad in rural Tanzania. Our work in clean water access was a light bulb moment for me, clarifying the ways in which business and social impact can work... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Profile
Ryu Kawano
directly engaged in working projects, "inspired an interest in social enterprise that I hadn't had before." Specifically, Ryu spent a week consulting for one of the largest microfinance organizations in India serving a rural... View Details
- Profile
Creighton Taylor
to a market proved “enlightening – I had never been to a market where people really vie for your attention, where there’s truly hard bargaining.” On a trip to a rural village a couple of hours outside Accra, Creighton saw what it meant... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
time around taught him an important life lesson: "to strive for the best and have faith in myself." At MGIMO, Safin was selected to participate in the American Collegiate Consortium Exchange Program. His experience at Washington and Lee University in View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
food,” notes the low-key Batcha, who was raised on a farm in rural New Jersey and majored in horticulture at Rutgers before coming to HBS. “I believe hunger and famine would be much more widespread today without the changes the seed... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I found my professional North Star as an undergraduate student while studying abroad in rural Tanzania. Our work in clean water... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- News
Into the Light
Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
uses the Mexican coffee economy to show how rural landholders and workers had a surprisingly large influence on foreign—and state—driven modernization projects, and how small plantations outlasted large ones in the Soconusco. "It's a... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Telecom 1992 Launches Bharti Cellular 1999 Completes OPM Program 2002 Bharti Airtel lists on Indian bourses through IPO 2004 Airtel becomes India’s largest mobile operator 2006 Launches Satya Bharti School Program to educate India’s rural... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
entrepreneurial finance professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School. In view of this year's conference theme, HBSAAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) notes that Chicago was chosen "in part because of its history as a primary destination for African Americans... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
villages and rural areas. So Husain took action. In 2007 she founded Educate Girls, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes communities to take a stand against gender disparities in education. The organization leverages existing community... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
- Student-Profile
Celia Stafford
a Harvard Student.. “I grew up in a very rural area, got my master’s degree from a state school. It’s meant so much to be told that my voice matters, to be given the opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives.” Research Celia’s... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised June 2020)
- Teaching Note
Generation Investment Management (TN)
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for 613-002. The case and/or its teaching note includes references to case supplement videos that are intended for students to view, along with the written case, before class.
As a reminder, the (A) video supplement is intended for students to view... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- Profile
Joseph Abel
and figuratively. “I had never been further east than Israel,” Joe says. But the real expansion came with an insight he had while traveling through India’s rural countryside. “You see all these subsistence farmers who have very little... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
development. Kim focused on developing a sustainable model for delivering health care to rural India. “If you create a profitable solution, it can be scalable,” he explains. Upon earning his MBA, Kim is committed to helping people in... View Details