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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
secret,” she says. “I’ve spent the last 15 years in Africa really trying to not only unlock the agricultural and food potential on the continent, but also to enable our enterprises to scale.” Sahel... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
offer kids perceived power, money, cars, and respect. They are business enterprises that reward and thrive on hard work, ingenuity, organization, View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
fund Durban Capital, Berman says the game helped to get him away from bullies who teased him for his small size. (Though a star tennis and squash player in his hometown of Durban, South Africa, he often... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Taste of Tradition
In a family-founded business, tradition and values are as ingrained and in-escapable as one's own genetic heritage. Even when such an enterprise becomes a publicly owned View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Larry Murphy
It was reading a Life magazine article (Ann Moore, take note) about Eastern colleges that helped propel Lawrence P. Murphy from a small town in Missouri to Williams College, followed by HBS. In 1985, after positions at Citibank, Bain,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
The question for us is about next steps: Do we go deep in small and medium-sized markets where we know our product works well? Or go wide and try... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn’t align with upper management’s. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined Cherokee Nation View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
financial services firm helps small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital and scale their businesses. In the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
San José Mayor Sam Liccardo Henry Tsai and San José Mayor Sam Liccardo That chance had come by way of a fellowship offered through HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, a privately held View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
solutions, he has aggressively implemented the notion that customers, through their implicit choices or explicit actions (what Cook calls a “user contribution system”), and his brainstorming employees (in View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
that businesses are much more flexible than any of us thought. Early in the crisis, I interviewed a number of executives in HBS’s Owner/President Management program, who run small and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
and current vice chairman of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Home to some 5,000 characters including Spider-Man, the Fantastic 4, the X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk, Marvel employs about 200 people worldwide, not... View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
feel that by harnessing market-driven solutions, by using a small amount of philanthropy to attract larger sources of capital, and by shifting the global discussion to how do we finance the crisis, we will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and nonprofit executives from fifteen... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
developed an important insight into why the owners of small businesses typically wait until the last minute to update their books and file tax forms. Most people would say they are just lazy or... View Details
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