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- 24 Apr 2014
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Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
From Resource Allocation to Strategy by Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert (Oxford University Press) Drawing on thirty years of research on resource allocation, Professor Bower and Assistant Professor Gilbert discuss the structural... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
the country in the 1970s and 1980s - ideas such as lifetime employment, cross-shareholding, and keiretsu (Japanese corporate groupings) - are currently undergoing fundamental changes and offer fascinating research possibilities. With the globalization of Japan's... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to deliver the credits. Learn More... 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 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
scale up globally, and the 1990s saw lasting social and policy shifts in Germany and Spain that encouraged their entry into the wind game. By 1996, the largest wind energy companies in the world included one US, two German, and five... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
professor Mukti Khaire. “This idea was referred to and expanded upon often throughout the conference.” Khaire noted that the issue of social and environmental concerns and the need to address these problems in a creative manner was also a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
strategies and organizational structures by health plans, providers, and system participants that are misaligned with patient value. For example, providers consolidate into groups to gain clout against insurers, even though value is not... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
spearheaded the evening’s programming, along with the club’s new president Ellen Galezewski (MBA 2012), past president Karen Hung (MBA 1998), vice president for programs Melanie Maddux (MBA 2004), and board member Lisa Wright (MBA 1999). “This event was View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
a little deeper. The students pointedly but diplomatically inquire how CB can create positive social change with a program that charges annualized lending rates as high as 78 percent and offers no support or business guidance to a largely... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Pasricha on the Perils of Retirement
implications. “Turns out the two most dangerous years of your life are literally the year you were born and the year you retire,” Pasricha tells WBUR. So why do so many people hit a wall when they retire? Pasricha says that we tend to cut out what he calls “the four... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
the classroom, in the form of Khan Lab School, an educational “R&D lab” in Mountain View, California. The fact that the school goes year-round – meaning there’s no summer vacation, kids – is just the beginning of how different the program is here. In addition to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
politics, rarely appear in consumer marketing campaigns. To be sure, marketers of breath mints and antidandruff shampoos play on social anxieties; Volvo raises automotive safety concerns. But the fear level never approaches that raised by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
when I was growing up in the 1990s. There’s been a real change in philosophy, which entrepreneurship can build on. The Branson Centre is an accelerator operating out of Kingston that helps entrepreneurs structure their businesses for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial success with View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Torfason is an instructor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches the first-year course The Entrepreneurial Manager. His research focuses on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of... View Details