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- 01 Dec 2018
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Turning Point: Crossover
from the South and West sides of Chicago. It was part coaching, part social work—there were discipline and academic issues, gangs, guns, and homelessness. Over the five years I coached the program, 25 of our players went on to earn... View Details
- 30 Oct 2020
- News
Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups
that “(a) part of it is me, but the big part is the team you assemble and where the market has gone. ...And it’s investors that believed in me as a first-time entrepreneur who was a doctor without business or tech experience.” CarePort won the HBS New Venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Spring Training for Startups
narrowed down finalists in the business and social enterprise tracks to grand prize winners and runners-up, each receiving $50,000 and $25,000, respectively. Alumni NVC winners were announced two weeks... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A for-profit View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
incubators that offer training, education, and networking opportunities to women of all backgrounds and social classes. “For a program to succeed, it needs to be integrated—through partnerships—into local communities and within... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
develop an impact investing conference in Shanghai. On December 19, 150 pioneers in social enterprise and impact investing, other practitioners, and academics in China gathered for engaging discussions about... 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
- 11 Nov 2021
- News
Where Does Higher Education Go from Here?
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
It’s fitting that Erik Dyson’s HBS interview was conducted over a pay phone in Costa Rica, where he and his wife, Debbi, were finishing a three-year program for Habitat for Humanity. Now the CEO of the disaster relief organization All Hands and Hearts–Smart Response,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
In the Spotlight: Jeff Walker (MBA 1981)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was opening its doors to a wider... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) launched Hope and Comfort out of his Boston-area garage in 2011 to address the issue of hygiene insecurity in Massachusetts. "If you don't have basic hygiene products, it's very hard to stay clean, healthy, and confident," he explains. "No one... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
foundations, but it also relies heavily on the generosity of individual donors, who include section mate Bill Ackman (MBA 1992) whom Callahan describes as “a brilliant, insightful person who cares about achieving extraordinary social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
Having grown up in Pakistan, Tarim Wasim (MBA 2005) and other Boston-based students and professionals started the Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP) in 2003 to support the best local nonprofits. Wasim, a Baker Scholar at HBS, was motivated to launch ADP... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
tight security worldwide. There could be no soft targets anywhere. That was the wake-up call.” Bonnie Rubenstein Cohen (MBA ’67) grew up in the blue-collar “Shoe City” of Brockton, Massachusetts. Her father, Harold Rubenstein (MBA ’40), ran a wholesale liquor business,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- News