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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
world's poorest countries. The International Finance Corporation invests some $2.5 billion in private-sector enterprise in developing nations. The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency encourages outside investment in developing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
meet incredibly talented fitness instructors, dancers, and entrepreneurs who are making a real difference in people's lives by encouraging and embodying healthy living themselves. "The most challenging part is building a fitness brand on... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
other thing we can do is pass democracy reform legislation. If we actually ended gerrymandering, if we got more disclosure and small-donor matching on campaign finance as well as automatic voter registration—those reforms would really make a difference. There’s a lot... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
loved it so much they encouraged them to do it again the next year, and the next, and the next. And that's how Burning Man started. We burn the man because it's a symbol of life, and how short it is, and how ephemeral it is. And we spend... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
been so much at the heart of the School throughout our existence, is alive and well. And I’m encouraging that as much as anything else. What value does FIELD add to the first-year students’ experience? We all agreed that there were three... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
And since then, we’ve had alumni reach out, offering to make introductions or advise us. It’s been super fun.” Wood says the competition offers so many benefits for founders and encourages fellow entrepreneurs to give it a go. “If you... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and continued research, will "in a small... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
technology to become available for laboratory use. He calls for new approaches to research and funding to encourage a tighter, more collaborative coupling of engineering and biology. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
heartfelt stories to inspire and encourage you. Faculty Books Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life By Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press Four out of five... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
got a lot of encouraging feedback from institutions, especially the pension funds—CalPERS, for example. Huge. But they want to invest in much larger funds. And so getting to that point of creating a $250 million or $500 million... Then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
considered to be within their purview. How do you react to people who say these are political, not business issues? Lisa Lewin: The truth is is we're not actually asking businesses to become political because business is already hyper-political. I really View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
a month. Hanna: Right. DiDonna: What I would encourage people to do is substitute out the work intensity and life intensity for intensity in something that you're passionate about and that's meaningful to you. Whether that's an immersive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
training. All the postmortems of the current collapse show people making unconscious or malfeasant choices. At the MBA level, it’s encouraging that HBS and other leading business schools are reexamining their curricula and placing a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
company encourages its instructors to stick to English and keep the spirituality to a minimum. “If you talk about a life philosophy, maybe that’s OK,” says DeCoons. “But I think that [yoga’s spiritual side] probably draws a little too... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
encouraging labor market mobility. “Setting the table in terms of creating an environment that is attractive to entrepreneurship is one of the most important things that government can do,” he says—and differences in incentives and... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
going to Ukrainian relief funds. (Poznansky also encourages anyone looking to help launch a Buy Ukrainian campaign or who knows of Ukrainian companies exporting goods or services to the USA to contact him at joelpoz@hotmail.com.) “It does... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
significant district vendor, and a family relationship between a partner and senior school district administrator. But the fact that the discussion happened at all, and will be debated further, was a step forward. Cognetti also cites View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Practical Guide for Scaling Impact by Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) (Routledge) Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African continent but frustrated by the slow pace of large-scale change, Nwuneli... View Details