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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
York whose full potential never emerged in the classroom. Angel excelled as an intern in Montage’s Diversity in Production program, where he trained to be a gaffer. “He had so much desire to learn,” Stone remembers. “It was wonderful to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
more product and move to the next level? There are very few places to turn.’ ” The data backed up Kehinde’s experiences: Last year, the International Finance Corporation estimated the credit gap for small businesses in Nigeria to be at... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Salvador, an Argentine medical doctor pursuing an MPH degree at HSPH, was on the first Antares–Pro Mujer student team in 2008. She was named director of health and human development for Pro Mujer International in 2010. Jun Fukuyoshi (MBA... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
master classes for construction workers. The organization is currently exploring international collaborations. “Government policies should foster the self-construction market and see it as a solution to the growing housing crisis. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
capitalist by day. I teach entrepreneurship with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. I often ask my students where they think the root of venture capital is. They'll often tell me they think... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
under the auspices of Harvard's Institute for International Development. After returning from Kenya she joined Bain & Company and later signed on with a startup, founded by Bain colleagues, focused on privatization efforts in Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the heavier vehicles created more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together, to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
The following faculty members have received promotions. Tarun Khanna (Strategy), Kathleen L. McGinn (Negotiation, Organizations & Markets), David A. Moss (Business, Government, and the International Economy), and Ananth Raman (Technology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be generational. Social View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- News
Raising Prospects for Female Funders
Maria Eugenia Giron (MBA 1992) is an entrepreneur and investor in the luxury goods industry, based in Madrid. She’s a cofounder of Rising Tide Europe, a women’s angel investing group that is part of an international movement to provide... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
a self-taught painter and sculptor. “I want to democratize it . . . make it available and accessible to everyone . . . strengthen it so the region can be recognized by the international arts scene.” To do that, Halwani realized he needed... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on how people can work fruitfully across social divides. Prior to her academic career, Ramarajan worked in international development in West Africa focusing on conflict resolution. Douglas... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this test seek not to mimic the data... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
because they have a long-term focus to serve long-term social problems. "We owe a lot to nonprofit organizations," she said. "The Sierra Club, for example, has been an effective voice for the environmental movement, and the International... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
about 50) receives an international travel allowance to encourage personal exploration beyond the dedicated trips taken to Tea destinations. “I know that when I travel, and especially when I take my family traveling, it’s a transformative... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
my brother, sister, and me during the hot summer months," Scher recalls. Scher attended Yale as an undergraduate, where she was active in the movement for divestment in South Africa, and then spent a year at the Institute for View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso