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- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that transmitting energy long distances from View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
and focused on some big-ticket items, such as telecoms. The net effect was dramatically improved telecommunications service in rural areas.” Sheppard calls this kind of knowledge sharing and relationship building “the World Bank at its... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan
Seema Aziz (OPM 39, 2010), cofounder of Bareeze, a global luxury textile and clothing brand based in Pakistan, started the CARE Foundation to provide education and opportunities for children in rural Pakistan. In this video conducted... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
rural versus urban and suburban, that didn’t really predict anything.” (Rural schools did have slower speeds, but they also had fewer students to slow the network down.) After securing nearly $30 million in funding, the group’s work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
the efforts of scientists, health organizations, businesses, and philanthropists to extend the frontiers of medicine and in particular the science of genomics beyond the Northern Hemisphere and into rural villages the world over. It turns... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
creating a youth development program in rural Louisiana while serving in the Army or increasing revenues (by $39 million) as an engineer and administrator at Motorola in Texas (where he also tutored students), Donelson has shown great... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
time around taught him an important life lesson: "to strive for the best and have faith in myself." At MGIMO, Safin was selected to participate in the American Collegiate Consortium Exchange Program. His experience at Washington and Lee University in View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
food,” notes the low-key Batcha, who was raised on a farm in rural New Jersey and majored in horticulture at Rutgers before coming to HBS. “I believe hunger and famine would be much more widespread today without the changes the seed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
the decision,” she says. “There were those who were quite concerned about the environmental impact and others with experience on the ground in rural India who spoke of the need for electricity in reducing poverty and bringing about... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
leadership programs stop right on the cusp of that, and we want you want to go beyond that.” To reach that plane, Lim and Overwater welcome participants to the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Conn., a rural oasis away from the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and working with farmers in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
reach the goals of which McCarthy spoke. Moving away from the city to more rural areas, David Perry (MBA 1997), president, CEO, and director of Indigo Agriculture, said one-third of all carbon emissions are the result of the agriculture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move to rural North Carolina. Upon... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
eligibility had proved daunting. To participate, a veteran had to take his DD 214 in person to a Veterans Administration office and pick up a voucher. The procedure, inconvenient for some veterans and impractical for others who lived in View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
part of your job? The most satisfying things have been where the United States or our embassy has really helped Morocco: battling locusts, opening a girls’ school in a small rural town, the free trade agreement, the microfinance program.... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
seeds of entrepreneurship among rural youth in America's heartland. Schultz is the founder and CEO of Agracel, an industrial development firm that focuses on rural America. Since 1986, Agracel, based in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
the people, their personalities, contributions, and the influences that set this community apart from city living or other rural areas. The community survived and depended on each individual. People were courteous, supportive, and... View Details