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Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) helped launch the digital marketing firm Communispace in 2000 to give clients a way to integrate the perspective of their consumers into everything they do. (Published December 2014) View Details

31 Mar 2014
News

Too Busy to Meditate?

Keywords: mindfulness; meditation; decisionmaking

08 Dec 2009
News

Business lessons from history

Building small business utopia: how artificial intelligence and Big Data can increase small business success

Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details

February 2025
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Doing Business in Kigali, Rwanda

By: Andy Zelleke, Martin A. Sinozich, Julianne Bliss and Choetsow Tenzin

Rwanda’s transformation from a post-genocide recovery effort to one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies presents a compelling case for investors and business leaders. With an ambitious Vision 2050 strategy, Kigali has emerged as a regional hub for trade, innovation,... View Details

Keywords: Business History; International Relations; Government and Politics; Foreign Direct Investment; Culture; Transformation; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Rwanda

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Educators

25 Aug 2022
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Reinventing the Future of Business

in July, launched the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). The Institute provides HBS and other schools at Harvard with a powerful foundation for accelerating research on big, multidisciplinary problems in business and... View Details

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

Summing Up Do Concerns About Job Creation By Small Businesses Miss The Point? Judging from responses to this month's column, there appears to be a visceral reaction to any suggestion that small business... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett