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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
slowly built a loyal following of teachers and students. More than 110,000 people now visit the free Web site each month, 10 percent of them from abroad. “It’s been like a pebble in a pond,” Cook said of the site’s spreading popularity. (While vocabulary.com is free,... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
moderate-income consumers, D2D develops and supports innovative new products and policies that make it easier for people to save. Among its many initiatives, D2D offers individuals and organizations (private employers, the military, community colleges, nonprofits,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
Few student exploits over the summer could match the power lunch enjoyed by Reginald Sanders (HBS '02), who broke bread and talked business with Jack Welch, the legendary force behind General Electric. Sanders earned the honor of dining... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
explains. “Given that women make 82 cents on the dollar, this income gap affects not only earnings but also retirement savings, creating a gender pension gap. Some of that is because of the industries we go into, and also because we are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
selling them. The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Naa-Sakle Akuete (MBA 2014), CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity and therefore lack View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
and wages low, US companies won’t be able to raise prices and wages, so inflation will be limited. What’s the Fed’s view on this issue? —Gordon E. Olson (MBA 1975) I think you see a mixture of views among Fed policymakers, but I know that... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Download Sunil B. Mittal profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, Ludhiana, Punjab, India 1976 Earns BA, Economics and Political Science, Panjab University 1976 Founds Bharti Enterprises 1982 Becomes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
COVID-19. The largest group of Promise applicants at CCRI comes from families making less than $25,000 annually. Can you speak to how the program opens doors for students and provides a boost to local economies? Higher education is the path to opportunity in this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
knew or understood. "The goodwill earned and accrued by earlier generations of HBS graduates has paved the way for the current generation of HBS students to enjoy access to incredible opportunities, yet with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
mid-1990s, Larry Fondation, a community organizer in South Central Los Angeles and Tufano's Harvard College roommate, alerted Tufano to the plight of low-income wage earners who traditionally have been left out of the loop when it comes... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
all we heard were the sounds of insects and the flutes played by the night watchmen who cared for cows and buffalo. We were afraid of the dark, because we heard stories about witches and goblins eating people caught outside after sundown. "My father did almost nothing... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Mexican for-profit social enterprise that makes eye care, including much-needed cataract surgery, accessible to thousands of people annually. Blindness is the second leading cause of disability in Mexico, with more than 2 million people... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
obstacle.” The experience helped shape her focus as she later pursued her career. “Being able to help my community—that’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Engineering was the first step for Thompson-Woode. A first-generation college student, she View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
outdated, electricity was sporadic, communication was difficult, basic resources were scarce, institutions were undeveloped, and the need for training was tremendous. Despite these obstacles, Lu was able to make a difference in the lives of dozens of families by... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
technical, and skilled employees to support growing international business. For Jordanian, Egyptian, and Palestinian companies, cooperation with Israeli firms, and with each other, is even more strategically attractive. Companies can acquire know-how, Òleap frogÓ... View Details