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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
popular adaptive learning companies, specializing in math .Across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, DreamBox serves nearly 3 million students and 120,000 teachers. Today, the company is announcing $130 million in growth equity funding from TPG’s The Rise Fund, a View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned from Russia in 1998 with his adopted baby girl, Christina, another child remained in his thoughts: a blue-eyed little boy named Andrew left behind in the orphanage. “He’s in my mind today,” says Taylor.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
Boris Groysberg addresses attendees of the HBS Executive Education program Women on Boards. (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Last year, Paula Davila Martinez (GMP 18, 2015) decided she wanted to have an impact beyond her corporate role as a... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
business in the world today, do you foresee new opportunities for HBS? In most institutions that endure, there are “inflection points” — times when forces like the economy, technology, and the social environment converge, and the future... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
a product that has 15 million users or reaches a market value of $100 million or $500 million, that’s a great feeling. At Google, the scale of your impact is much bigger. The first day we launched Social... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
technology's impact becomes evident. "Essentially, there are more people dying from curable diseases than either of these other two global menaces." Schrader hopes Vaxess can start chipping away at that stat. "Ultimately, our goal is to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
average of 2.4 firms each. These are among the preliminary findings of a survey conducted early this year to shed light on the impact that HBS has had on helping MBA Program graduates along their diverse career paths. The survey, a first... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
that boost an individual’s income as well as regional food security. Second, PAD’s work responds to the long-standing challenge among social enterprises to measure impact—something Cole has seen firsthand in his research with the HBS... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
says Hourdequin. "Another set consists of those who have a mission or impact orientation: they are looking for a financial return, but they also want to direct their capital to investment pools that help to achieve good environmental and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
and the larger world. A culmination of four years of extensive research, this book (excerpted below) chronicles some of the myriad ways alumni are living the mission through social impact. “It is impressive and inspiring to see the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
served as executive director of the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association until 2013. Things didn’t turn out the way the partners had originally envisioned, but Crespin was hooked on merging business with social responsibility and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
fruits, which she then sells at the local market. "The impact of these loans is extraordinary," says Barry. "Poor women have shown that they are the world's best customers, repaying their loans and using their increased income to feed,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- News
Aiming for Sustainability Isn’t Good Enough—The Goal Is Much Higher
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
some of these short-term nudges or interventions affect outcomes beyond the immediate ask. For example, when people feel tricked into giving, does that make them less likely to donate to that charity in the future? Both this and Christine’s question are really about... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
ways of working and their impacts on gender, “ says Kami Viswanathan (MBA 2001), who organized the conference with a core team including Vivek Gambhir (MBA 1997), Jyoti Narang (AMP 179), and Nupur Arya (AMP 192), along with Anjali Raina... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Museum of Natural History, Chicago Strategy for the Field: "More. Faster. Better." Operating expenses FY '99: $60 million Square feet he oversees: Close to a million 33 Web site: www.fieldmuseum.org Best part of his job: "Knowing that we are having an View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
the private sector. The one- or two-year postgraduate fellowships are indicative of the “growing desire on the part of our students to be involved in the public and social sectors,” said Professor W. Carl Kester, senior associate dean and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
its pragmatic use of the profit motive and market mechanisms to make a sustainable, self-perpetuating, and effective impact on the lives of poor people. When the ACCION opportunity came along, it forced me to confront those late-night... View Details