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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
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Mariama Keita
says. She would like to learn more about microfinancing options for women in rural areas, and hopes to develop a fund that invests in small- to medium-sized African enterprises. View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
over the next five to 10 years, almost 60 percent of the world's population will, in fact, live in cities instead of the rural areas. And that's going to put a huge burden on the infrastructure that cities will have to create. “The way we... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
Falik's Global Citizen Year continues to grow. Courtesy Abby Falik Related Links Nonprofit founder recognized Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn Inspired by her summer living in a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
rural versus urban and suburban, that didn’t really predict anything.” (Rural schools did have slower speeds, but they also had fewer students to slow the network down.) After securing nearly $30 million in funding, the group’s work... View Details
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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
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Fred Smith
outside business interests as well. "We get excited by the potential purchasing power of China's 1.3 billion people. But 800 million are still farmers in rural areas. It's just not realistic to think it will be easy to sell products... View Details
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Kira Epler
For Kira Epler, attending HBS meant a dramatic shift in scale. "My graduating class of chemistry majors was smaller than a HBS section," she says. The fourth generation in her family to graduate from Kansas State University, Kira grew up in Yates Center, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking,... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
"There we heard questions from a perspective that we haven't heard before," Forjaz marveled. "That's another highly beneficial aspect." Antonio Ruiz Garcia Antonio Ruiz Garcia, of Fundacion Mexicana para el Desarrollo View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
a business opportunity. Walson charged two dollars a month for this service, and by the middle of 1948 had 727 customers. He and other entrepreneurs soon began setting up similar "Community Antenna Television" systems in rural... 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
- 13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Christine Keung: "The trek exposed us to the challenges of rural Appalachia: declining life expectancy, a shrinking population, an economy that has stagnated and contracted, the lowest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Venture: Time Heals All
surgical departments in small rural hospitals as for labor and delivery departments in large urban hospitals,” Borkenstein says. “It’s not a custom build. But it feels like a custom build to that nurse manager.” Startup Support Although... View Details
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Building a world where all children can fulfill their potential Radha Ruparell 24 Aug 2017 When I was 12-years old, my parents took me to visit the rural village in Gujarat India where our... Channeling Business Leadership into Civic... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
required to accomplish such a planned massive expansion, from yet-to-be hit rural areas to overwhelmed urban health systems. As leaders consider how to tackle the task, they might look at the Harvard Business School case study of... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
startups. I took one student’s interest area, modular homes in rural Texas, as my jumping-off point. The class took off from there. We started by asking about the biggest climate impacts of modular homes and got back a great list,... View Details
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Stephen Temple
Seemingly prosaic products, Stephen learned, could have a dramatic impact improving lives: Replacing single-blade razors with safety razors increases hygiene and limits disease in rural India; facilitating greater access to feminine... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
bad behavior causes memories of those acts to gradually become less clear—a phenomenon they call “unethical amnesia.” Research Papers Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing This study in rural West... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne