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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Because global brands begin to create access to global income. And three, because they work with Andela and our model is distributed, they live and work in their local countries. And so whatever they're earning is being spent locally. The... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
fuel.” (courtesy Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux) BVP’s Sunil Nagaraj has sat in on more than 100 presentations from space companies in the past 12 months, noting that the breadth of businesses demonstrates the vitality of the new space... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a business there. It went bankrupt during the Depression. I was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
In an interview in last December's Bulletin Dean Kim B. Clark talked of launching "a profound transformation around information technology (IT)," an initiative that would earn for the School an unequaled reputation for intelligent,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
bruised, she decided to step away from business, attending culinary school and becoming a private chef in London for two years. (Lo donated all her earnings to charity and coauthored a book during that time, Dining with Dictators, which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
training. Finally, Three Chimneys manages the breeding rights for eight stallions, which Clay cites as the segment of his business with the highest profile and greatest returns. Smarty Jones, winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," he says. When Ray Gilmartin joined Merck in June 1994 as president and CEO (he became chairman several... 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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
little bit about how American women basketball players began playing professionally in Europe? Levy: Well, it happened like this. There were leagues in Europe-- very amateur except that the players would get paid modest sums. And no one really View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
retiring as a commander in 2013. Vescovo had already earned a place in the annals of exploration. When he reached the peak of Everest in 2010, he became one of just a few hundred people to have climbed all Seven Summits, the tallest... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
from one of the first women to earn an MBA at HBS, to up-and-coming entrepreneurs who are making waves in the business world, to established executives in traditional industries -- brought a wide spectrum of... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
socialist state, a land of overarching regulation rather than of opportunity. "As a result, there was no entrepreneurship, and businesses couldn't do a thing without government approval," recalls Rahul Bajaj, a member of one of India's... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
amazing. And, in fact, it could take off and land itself, but people get freaked out about that. So the pilot does that because they've got to earn their salary somehow. And this flight, Qantas flight 32 that takes off on this morning in... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
place during the day, between 10 a.m. and 2 or 3 p.m. and we try to mix a bit of business education with every activity.” Past activities have included a private tour of the Federal Reserve Bank with a discussion with executives, a lunch... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman