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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
launched the Robin Hood Army while working for a company called Zomato, India’s largest food-delivery app. His job was to set up Zomato in international markets, live in the countries for six to nine months at a time, and establish local... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
the skills and knowledge our graduates will bring to their jobs but also on their values, their attitudes, and their character. To reach this goal we must continue the long-standing tradition of innovation in our educational programs.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
either in Boston or on the West Coast (in conjunction with our California Research Center in Silicon Valley). Our faculty will teach a distance learning course with some classes originating in California and some at Soldiers Field, while parts of the course will be... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
there is more to do.” Carroll’s leadership at Anglo American has significantly influenced the industry by setting new standards for safety and by offering miners, their families, and their communities a thoughtful, long-term outlook. She... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
look at leadership in American public life. If you spend as much time as I do around politicians, you hear a lot about leadership. They all promise to offer it, in different shapes and forms. Strong leadership. Bold leadership. Tested... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
initial project is completed. What are your current projects? We have three formal projects in Rwanda, India, and Honduras. In Rwanda, we’re helping Mission Schools International, founded by Brendan Kennealey (MBA ’06), establish a network of secondary schools that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
as any print version. Jacobson’s eureka moment came to him in the summer of 1995, after completing his postgraduate work at Stanford. With a job offer from MIT in hand, he spent a good amount of time reading... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
payment of $1,” Baer laughs. “It was probably the first and last single-figure contract in broadcast history.” After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, Baer parlayed the experience, contacts, and notoriety he gained during his short-lived but memorable stint as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
don’t know what the answer is. They have to act, not plan their way forward. Hill began to despair of finding an answer to her problem until a chance meeting with Pixar executive Greg Brandeau in the lobby of a biotech firm—Hill was there for research, Brandeau for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
slotting into a job in an established business had little allure. He wanted to start something new, ideally a for-profit enterprise that would have a visible social impact. But when he thought about health care delivery, Singh found... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
interested in what they were doing and wanted to stay in touch. In subsequent conversations in the spring of 2010, the Secklers told Williams about HT-100. Williams went to work, offering the venture capital group that held the compound a... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
financing, as well as offering special workshops and public events on financial topics. “It’s a huge part of what we do every day,” she says. “We have a critical mass of Americans—around 60 million—who don’t even actively use a bank... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
JD/MBA degree as a way to ensure that he’d have all the necessary tools to do so. But as his time at Harvard drew to a close, Singer continued to wrestle with what to do next. Law, public policy, and politics offered the most obvious... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
entrepreneurial ventures. For example, he figured out quickly that he could make more money selling ice cream to construction workers if he offered whole containers, not just individual bars. He started earning money at a young age. BW:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate development companies were rescinding offers to classmates of mine.” When the job market for commercial real estate tanked, so did MBA student interest. Today, MBA students again are flocking to real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
longer work. Revival of the Fittest offers detailed examples of how a diverse range of companies — from IBM, Samsung, and Nokia to the Danish hearing-aid maker Oticon and Asahi Breweries in Japan — have used transforming commitments to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Sender. She offers the US team's Cup itinerary as an example: It begins with a match in Natal, on the northeast coast, then travels to the Amazonian city of Manaus, before finally heading back to the northeast coast for a game in Recife.... View Details