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Zad Chin | MBA
and technology when it comes to improving our society. Professional goals: I am passionate about technologies that improve accessibility and affordability in education and healthcare, and would love to continue to research, build, and... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Summer Snapshot: Interning for the City of Philadelphia
from other cities, and analyzing data to help the City’s leadership decide what programs, policies, and initiatives can best promote inclusive economic growth. The experience has afforded me an incredible learning experience while also... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
Helena Rubinstein
insistence, only women with professional training in cosmetics could sell her products, and this part of the business grew to be the largest. Retaining total control of her company until her death, Rubinstein’s business savvy afforded her... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
industry.The challenge that we face—making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people—is not unique to health care. Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
African continent and import taxes are exorbitant, prices can run sky-high—to the tune of US$80,000 for a 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, for instance. To address these problems, Nairobi-based startup Mobius Motors has reimagined an affordable... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- Portrait Project
Cindy Thanh Tran
working, chicken farming, selling trashed papers... Still, she could not afford extra food for me to stay healthy while studying intensively whenever I was preparing for a regional competition or a nation-wide contest. So, she went for... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
who would not otherwise be able to afford an advocate. But that’s not enough, says Leimsider. In his time as executive director, Leimsider has helped Safe Passage clarify its strategic goals. “We have a very specific understanding of what... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler Jr., MBA 1956
that HBS has had on your life, the unique opportunities it has afforded you in your work, and the extraordinary people you have had the good fortune to meet." Not surprisingly, Spangler's high ideals are matched by a deep personal... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
globe,” notes Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022), who cofounded Umbulizer in 2017 and serves as chief medical officer. Before the pandemic developed, Umbulizer’s affordable device was already in use in hospitals and mobile medicine settings in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
For fans and management alike, with so much of professional sports now indistinguishable from other high-powered enterprises, where can one turn for an affordable and quality sports experience? Ask Frank Burke (MBA '87), owner of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
William Levitt
Levitt was a pioneer of fast, affordable housing construction. In many ways, he created the modern suburban landscape. Among other projects, his company built two Levittowns (Long Island and Bucks County) – mass-produced building projects... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
C. Kemmons Wilson
though operated by a different owner, would be nearly an exact replica of the others, with such amenities as air conditioning, color television and a swimming pool. Because of Wilson’s strict standards and intensive licensee training programs at “Holiday Inn... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
Henry Ford
In 1908, Ford introduced to the market the Model T automobile. Through cost-cutting production methods, Ford was eventually able to reduce the price of the Model T to $260, making it affordable for the mass market. Establishing the... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Video: Tackling the Housing Crisis One Renovation at a Time
Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is defying the odds and creating a positive ripple effect for working class families. Based in Philadelphia and New York, Steinbridge has built a network of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. “Disruptive innovation” is a term you’ve used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
development challenges facing India and other emerging economies, through impact investing in areas such as affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. The other is VSG Capital Advisors, an investment bank that is... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
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Sue Yang
untold opportunity in a new country. It was the 1990s, and my parents had just emigrated from Shanghai, with me in tow. Shanghai had afforded them rare passage from poverty and illiteracy to higher education, and rarer still, to America.... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
industry is at the heart of much research at Harvard Business School. Here is a sampler of stories about restaurants, chefs, food science, and more. D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable Under the leadership of Chef Davide... View Details
- 31 Jul 2016
- News
You Rang?
Beck, who then founded Hello Alfred, an affordable personal butler service, in September 2014. “We accidentally made Alfred for ourselves, to solve our problem,” Sapone told The Guardian for an article that follows one “Alfred” through a... View Details