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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could actually talk to the people and look... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
were about 50 people, and we started to hold meetings with the mayor of Mito, who agreed to support the project through deregulation, by providing tax incentives, and by communicating with the city’s population so the project could move forward. So it required... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
before deciding to devote more time and energy to raising money for the Student Sponsorship ProgrammeSouth Africa (SSP-SA). With Nyagaka Ongeri (MBA 1997), Clarke cofounded SSP-SA in 1999. “We have a chance now to become a major player in the nonprofit View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Viana also admired their grit. And he recognized the global cachet of quality French products. Here was something different, and maybe more meaningful, than leading a technology company. France’s manufacturing sector was still struggling... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
nearly 350 in just two years, and a recent investment of $110 million by TPG Growth, Evolent is keeping that momentum going. "Working in health care right now is like joining Google in 1999," says Blackley. "We're on the cusp of a reinvention of a huge View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate social responsibility.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
sector take time. “I told my investors that most companies we’re going to go into are going to take at least 10 years before we get an exit,” he says. Fenwick-Smith had seen the first sustainable technology boom in the mid-2000s go bust... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
Before he launched Harley-Davidson in India, Anoop Prakash (MBA 2001) held business development roles in technology and was a consultant at McKinsey. He also had experience in the public sector and in the US Marine Corps. But he hadn’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the public or private sector and has made lasting contributions to the Atlanta community. The recipient need not be an HBS graduate. The Leadership Dinner also raises funds for full... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
seventy HBS students who participated in the HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Program, which gives financial support to MBA students who choose to work in the public and nonprofit sectors during the summer months. Sponsored by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
top. A lot of the rhetoric about the need for an “intelligence czar” points in this direction. But we’ve seen in the private sector that, in highly turbulent environments, overly centralized organizations get overwhelmed by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
for business education. What must we do to ensure we remain an institution that educates leaders who make a difference in the world 10, 25, or even 50 years from now? This is a mission the world desperately needs us to fulfill. Business has the power to transform... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
suppliers and providers adhere to Aracruz's environmental principles. The company is also involved in both the public and private sectors in fostering legislation and policy that will enhance sustainable development. That proactive... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
industry. “We’re looking ahead and thinking very deeply about where the industry is going as a result of innovation, as opposed to looking in the past,” he says. One sector where the partners see great potential for growth: battery... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
spend. Don’t get us wrong, these costs are critically important, but this has been the sole focus of the building sector for far too long. Think about it this way: the entire green building movement, with billions of square feet of office... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
challenges faced by an outdoor recreation sector that contributes 650 billion dollars to our national economy. He talked to associate editor April White about the sport’s past, it’s future, and the toughest climb he ever made. READ MORE... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
focused on helping nonprofits operate more effectively by adapting private- sector management practices. SPNM was developed both to share that information with nonprofits, which could test and refine these methods, and to provide faculty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details