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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
movement. “Let’s look for evidence,” she says, drawing them back to the document each has in hand. She’s hoping they’ll discover the statistics in Exhibit 4 showing the divide between New York’s rural and urban communities. One student... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess instruction for African American children... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
If the company is successful, that equity pays dividends. At C.H.I. Overhead Doors in rural Illinois, which offered equity grants shortly after KKR acquired the company in 2015, the first dividends were paid in May 2017. “I had colleagues... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
Checchi puts it. "My grandparents symbolize what America is all about," says Checchi proudly, describing how his Italian immigrant forebears, from their corner store in rural Maine, first put the family on the path to self-betterment... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
bank accounts. She left her talking points and went on a tear: “I said, guys, if you don’t move now, the fintechs will take you over.” The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
who has achieved lofty financial success in his professional career while remaining firmly grounded in solid business wisdom. The second oldest of four brothers who grew up in rural Kaysville, Utah - all of whom went on to earn MBAs at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
York chefs. “We had all this land, with about 20,000 old-growth sugar maples and red maples,” relates Turner. “Big picture, this was 2009 and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years, entering poultry processing,... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
like a local newsroom but are actually pumping out politically motivated material. It is also incredibly difficult to build a digital brand in this environment, and the platforms with the biggest audiences, like Facebook, are so polluted. So when I hear from publishers... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
much as $4,000 a night—an astronomical sum in Thailand, for instance, where the average annual income is just over $5,000, and much, much lower in rural areas. “For most of these people, martial arts offered a way out. It’s a way of life... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Uncharted Territory
(Uncharted Play) (Uncharted Play) Jessica Matthews’s (MBA 2014) startup Uncharted Play made headlines when it debuted Soccket, a soccer ball that captures kinetic energy to power a lamp. The simple idea could change life in poor, rural... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim has studied or written about in cases that examine approaches to performance measurement. (See "A Case for Performance Management" below; others include the Robin Hood Foundation, Action-Aid International, the Aga Khan Rural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Africa Looks Ahead
"How do you transform the economy? You've got to provide the basic infrastructure for people to transform their own lives. You're killing many birds with one stone. If people have power, the welder in the rural area can make money, a... View Details
- 17 Mar 2016
- News
The 124-Year-Old Startup
eightfold. The company’s upcoming move from suburban Connecticut to Boston should also help with recruitment. “Sitting in a rural setting, you can never be scared enough of what’s next,” Immelt said. “You just can’t be. You can’t be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
mobile home in rural Washington State while her enterprising father, a truck driver, was building his own company, is running as a pro-business Democrat and advocate for the middle class. “I come from those roots,” she told the Santa Rosa... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Wisconsin cheddar, but how about Wisconsin Ackawi or Wisconsin Asadero? Twenty years ago, Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) acquired a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, about an hour’s drive from Madison.... View Details