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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
rising to a maximum of 13.3 percent, but only if the reoffending rate is reduced by at least 7.5 percent. Even at the highest rate, the government is forecast to pay out only about a third of its cost savings. Fifteen months into the pilot View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
About five years after Leonardo Letelier (MBA 2002) graduated from HBS, he found himself at a career crossroads. He enjoyed the work he was doing as a consultant, but something was missing. He didn’t have the word for it. “Today, everyone... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation and other inputs. In 2000, View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
He pursued pro bono work in community development in Boston and in business development projects in Eastern Europe before focusing on education. “As a larger issue, it seemed to me that a lot of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
themselves when you least expect them. What you have to be willing to do is take the risk.” In 1983, Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi (JD/MBA 1979) was working as a corporate lawyer when First Boston asked the Nigerian native to provide consulting... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
professor told me that physicists can work as engineers, but that engineers can never work as physicists," he recalls. That single conversation was the spark for a career at NASA. Earls' undergraduate View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
their health and education programs. Goodwin’s days as a global citizen began in the air force. In his early years as a second lieutenant, during the mid-1990s, he worked in foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, then in Colombia setting... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. “For many small businesses, that meant tough times got even tougher, which inspired us to look for alternative solutions that put people first,” Dyer says. Ezeji-Okoye asked Dyer, who had View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real estate in the world. While many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
society, and it plays a critical role in addressing complex, entrenched challenges like health care, education, and the environment. Our faculty can help here; working together, the ideas they develop have the potential to influence... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
his own company building environmentally sustainable live/work projects in New Mexico. “They were high density, they were affordable, and we recycled the water from them,” Wiviott explains. “It just made sense. I mean, my life felt better... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
the region. “They have to be a part of this project from day one,” AlMadani says. The key to funding those things is tourism, AlMadani says. It’s a brand-new venture for Saudi Arabia, which began offering tourist visas for the first time... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
whose innovations and creativity greatly influence the direction of the industry. How big is the foodservice industry? Sales for restaurants alone are projected to top $320 billion in 1997. Restaurants are a hot entrepreneurial growth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
“Three-Box Solution”—has been his model for 35 years, spanning work with more than 100 CEOs. “It’s really my life’s work,” says Govindarajan, a longtime professor at Dartmouth who rejoined the HBS faculty as a Marvin Bower Fellow this... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
India. He is currently working on a serial and has two more projects in the pipeline. "I believe it is a corporate social responsibility to pay back to your motherland," Parija says. "I am fortunate that I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
me to study questions around how interactions play out for years down the road. But in some ways the decisions about what data to collect, and how the environment is organized, weren’t made by me. Given those constraints, I have a lot of envy for experimentalists who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your... View Details