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- 13 May 2020
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Cas Coovadia
Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, discusses his transition from being a political activist opposing banks during the era of apartheid, into a strong... View Details
- 12 Mar 2020
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Robert Brozin
Robert Brozin, the co-Founder of Nando’s, a South African-based restaurant chain specializing in Portuguese food, discusses how after building his business he sought a greater purpose, and found this purpose in... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
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Ronnie Screwvala
Ronnie Srewvala, who founded the Indian media conglomerate UTV in 1990, discusses how after selling UTV to Disney in 2012, he expanded his earlier philanthropic ventures and eventually founded The Swades... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
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Mohamed Jaffer
Mohamed Jaffer, Chairman of MJ Group, which is Kenya’s largest provider of cargo handling services, argues that business is “not safe in a castle if those around you live in shanties,” and points to the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
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Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai, former head of HSBC India and founder of the India Sanitation Coalition, discusses the differences between the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.
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Shamlu Dudeja
Shamlu Dudeja, founder of Malika’s Kantha Collection and Chair of SHE Foundation based in Kolkata, India describes how the revival of the kantha craft in Bengal, India, has improved the lives of artisans,... View Details
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Fadi Ghandour
Fadi Ghandour, founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, shares his view that businesses need to be activists for positive change. He provides the example of Aramex's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society
Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982) Fascitelli, paid tribute to the life of Mr. Whitehead and illustrated the lasting impact of legacy gifts on HBS. As Dean Nitin Nohria said in his remarks, “Very few institutions in the world outlive us.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Rock Center Dedication
In June, members of the HBS community gathered to thank Arthur Rock (MBA ’51) for his recent $25 million gift and to dedicate The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Praising Rock as a pioneering San Francisco–based venture capitalist, Dean Kim B. Clark observed,... View Details
- 03 Feb 2022
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Historic Gift Allows HGSE to Expand Scholarship Aid for Teachers
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Rags to Riches
an impact on 1 million Turkish people in the next ten years, I will be happy,” he declared. The founder and chairman of Istanbul-based Finansbank, Ozyegin said of his self-made success, “I’m first generation; that gives me satisfaction.... View Details
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- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Pagliuca. The Life Lab will contribute to building a thriving start-up community in Allston by seeding the campus with early stage scientific ventures. Together with the i-lab and Launch Lab, the Life Lab will foster the cross-disciplinary approach to entrepreneurship... View Details
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Adrian Gore
Adrian Gore, founder and Group Chief Executive of Discovery Limited, emphasizes the importance of supporting entrepreneurship as a means of solving socio-economic issues in South Africa. View Details
- 11 Sep 2020
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James Mwangi
James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, explains that both international and state-owned banks failed to address the issue that 96 percent of the population had no bank accounts in post-colonial Kenya, and how Equity Bank was able to dramatically expand financial... View Details
- 05 May 2020
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Narayana Murthy
Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of the India-based software company Infosys, explains his belief that compassionate capitalism is the best solution to poverty, and makes the case for a broad stakeholder view of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
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Leonor Melo de Velasco
Leonor Melo, who founded the Mundo Mujer Foundation (Women’s World Foundation) in Colombia in 1985, describes how her micro-finance NGO grew by building strong relations with its clients, and how it learned new... View Details
- 26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
Internet company. We want to be in businesses that have a very big impact with deep connections to people.” “Today, Bharti Foundation runs 254 rural schools through its Satya Bharti School Program. In all, our education initiatives reach... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s intellectual capital related to the pandemic. Research is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Importance of Philanthropy
collaborations, or wherever needed most. Examples of donor Impact Enabling New Modes of Learning FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development): Introduced in the MBA Program in 2011, the required FIELD course gives... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
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A Bridge to the Future
practical and poignant. The program included keynote presentations from two Harvard University professors: Jonathan Zittrain, who spoke on the future of the Internet; and Daniel Schrag, who addressed the impact of climate change. In their... View Details