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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
rural Chinese. Just addressing that problem—finding ways that farmers in the country’s poorer provinces can achieve a standard of living equal to a high-tech worker in Hangzhou—is a daunting task. This increasing unease about economic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
100 students. “Most of these young people grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” Condo notes. “We learn about them from their high schools or community leaders, who know they have extraordinary potential.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
work there before launching Bantay—raising funds for education and rural health care. “It’s good, but not very scalable,” he says. “And also, I’m not a great fundraiser. So it would be a lot of work just to send one kid to college.” Prior... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
the game.” As a student at MIT, Kundu took time out to volunteer as a science teacher in rural India. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India, especially—thanks to the success he’s had in his business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 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
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan
Seema Aziz (OPM 39, 2010), cofounder of Bareeze, a global luxury textile and clothing brand based in Pakistan, started the CARE Foundation to provide education and opportunities for children in rural Pakistan. In this video conducted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
rural areas attend high school, we knew we had to do something," says Özyeğin, who has built 25 girls' dormitories next to high schools in 20 provinces. "It's been very gratifying," he says, noting that 40 percent of these girls continue... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Not so long ago, its practitioners were considered a risk-taking breed apart and teaching it was viewed as an academic career-killer. But then entrepreneurship came in from the cold, thanks in large part to a maverick true believer named... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
species. My Name Is Melvin: The Life of an Extraordinary Ordinary Man by John A. Ehlert (OPM 23, 1996) (Telemachus Press LLC) In this biography of his father, Ehlert tells how Melvin was born in hardscrabble rural Minnesota and spent his... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
revolutionary advances in business," said John N. Maxemchuk, who, with Marie-Laure Goepfer (both HBS '02), cochaired the three-day February conference, sponsored by the High Tech & New Media Club. "This year, in addition to addressing the keen ongoing interest in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
asked everyone to envision a rural landscape painting with a river running through it. “On one side is an arid, compromised crop that won’t come to harvest. On the other is a rich jungle of exotic plants with names like Twitter,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
the problem in two different ways. The first is through AACE. The second is by managing the new $100 million Fund for Agricultural Financing in Nigeria, a partnership between Adesina's Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development... View Details