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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
presence. Recommended and designed business partnerships and product designs for a Chinese telecom company to pursue mobile banking and microfinance for rural Chinese population to access financing. Dates & Deadlines Students work on... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
they write, can we simply view education as what takes place in school buildings. “Such a narrow-minded focus has proved inadequate to the task of moving large populations out of poverty. We must broaden the focus of education to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
frequently “turn against their own people” and a business community that too often “can’t stand on its own two feet.” Going forward, Obeid said, the focus should be on the 65 percent of the MENA population that is under 30 years of age,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
Podcast with: Tarun Khanna Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 14 min., 33 sec. The world has an estimated population of 6.6 billion people. One-third of that total resides in just 2 nations: China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Growing Latino Buying Power
trends. “I started looking at this market close to 20 years ago, when Hispanics were about 10 percent of the population,” Perez explained. Today that number is about 20 percent, he notes, “and if we believe the numbers from the Census—we’re going to be about 30 percent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Real Deal
Leppert ELLENA FORTNER/COURTESY DALLAS MAYOR'S OFFICE Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (MBA ’79) is making a push to help the homeless population in his city, the Dallas Morning News reported (March 13, 2008). The city has opened a homeless... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
university chancellor, he's set his sights on solving a few more issues for aboriginal Canadians and for the world. Last fall, the University of Saskatchewan announced the creation of the Institute of Global Food Security—the first of its kind—to wrestle with the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Although much of the globe is awash in it, the allocation of water for human consumption is anything but easy. As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
The world’s refugee population has exploded over the last decade, straining the resources of international resettlement agencies as staff struggle to keep up with manually matching millions of refugees and asylum seekers to host... View Details
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Workplace Diversity: Data Sources
type of role). US Bureau of Labor Statistics Labor force statistics by a series of demographic points (including age, sex, race, disability, etc.) are available via the Current Population Survey. International Agencies World... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
over the next five to 10 years, almost 60 percent of the world's population will, in fact, live in cities instead of the rural areas. And that's going to put a huge burden on the infrastructure that cities will have to create. “The way we... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
model for delivering electricity to off-grid populations in the world. “There are 1.2 billion people who have no access to electricity,” Jaegle says. “Millions cannot afford grid power or rely on it; elementa uses proven technology in a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations and tools. “The data we generate helps managers make the best decisions, improve their work, and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
organizations in western Michigan, sprang up when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. Latino migrants and immigrants began to move into the area for agricultural jobs. “LEDA, initially, was established to get people to... View Details
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Kevin Dolan
Kevin helped McKinsey achieve 50% representation for women and 10% representation for each of the Black, Latine, and LGBTQ+ populations entering the firm. Kevin extended his experience to lead and shape multiple performance review... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details
- 26 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Kurt Piemonte
Are there any trends you are seeing in Asia? I recently returned from a visit to Hong Kong where finance has traditionally been the primary industry. While that is generally still the case, I am seeing a growing number of start-ups, often in the fin-tech space, as more... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
heavily through TV and other media in the months leading up to the World Cup. A portion of the population has seen the value of protesting in front of a TV camera in an effort to get the attention of other segments of the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with... View Details