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- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
India, and Bangladesh alone under threat from rising sea levels by 2100, “our ability to steward the water molecule is going to be fundamental to our ability to respond to whatever inevitable climate change we’ve baked into our future,”... View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- Video
Mahbubur Rahman
Mahbubur Rahman, a prominent business leader in Bangladesh, identifies the persistence of British colonial laws as a cause of the high level of corruption in the country. View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- Video
Mahbubur Rahman
Mahbubur Rahman, who had already started trading, banking and insurance businesses in Bangladesh, explains why he entered newspaper publishing, and how this business has become profitable despite the experience of peers. View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- Video
Mahbubur Rahman
Mahbubur Rahman recalls the challenges faced by the start-up in 1962 of what is now the large ETBL Holdings Group in Bangladesh, including how he built his first contacts with foreign firms. View Details
- 09 Nov 2020
- Video
Muhammad Musa
Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains that the NGO does not make all its operations in one country financially self-sustaining as it considers outside funding can be a source of new knowledge. For the same reason BRAC... View Details
- 09 Nov 2020
- Video
Muhammad Musa
Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains the NGO’s operating model which includes establishing for-profit and social enterprise businesses and the provision of micro-finance. View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Abed, the founder of Bangladesh-based BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, narrates BRAC’s entry into the seed business as a way to provide better quality seeds to poor vegetable cultivators, emphasizing... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of Bangladesh-based BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, describes how he was approached by politicians asking him to influence the votes of his employees, and how he refused to do... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
India, and Bangladesh alone under threat from rising sea levels by 2100, “water is the medium through which climate change is really going to be experienced,” Ferguson says. “Our ability to steward the water molecule is going to be... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial chemicals, that becomes a... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for... View Details
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- 09 Nov 2020
- Video
Muhammad Musa
Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains how BRAC functions as a learning organization. He provides an example from west Africa, where the NGO discovered that the children attending the clubs it had established suffered far... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed explains the positive impact of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, on Bangladesh's society.
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- Video
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Abed explains how he instills the staff at Bangladesh-based BRAC, the world's largest NGO, with a sense of mission, pride, and ownership in their work.
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- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
on how to succeed in the new economy. “We look at how the Internet can enhance our business by improving communication with both our customers and our network of suppliers around the world,” he explains. A quality-control problem at a factory in View Details
- October 2021
- Teaching Note
BRAC in 2020
By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-416. View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
emphasis on service and human rights,” says DeFehr of his focus on humanitarian aid. He grew up in the Mennonite faith, the son of Russian refugee parents, and feels a strong connection to other displaced communities. That’s how he ended up in View Details