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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
social sharing platform to help older adults live independently longer and provide tighter connection to family. CareSolver is a startup run by two current HBS students. It activate, educates, and supports... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
the Girl Scouts. They know the uniforms or the cookies. Those are great things, but they’re not a true representation of the Girl Scouts as an organization,” Pitter-Armand observes, and it’s the brand relevance that the G.I.R.L. platform... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
2006, he cofounded Behance, a networked portfolio website for artists. Six years later, it was acquired by Adobe, where Belsky now oversees products related to social networking and mobile apps. The overlap between his nine-to-five and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact
via the widely accessible WhatsApp social media platform with some 100,000 teachers in India's Anganwadi network, the world's most extensive government-run-and-funded daycare system. In addition, bite-sized... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Apr 2014
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Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
funding but also entrench best corporate governance practices while accelerating wealth creation and distribution, leading to better social cohesion," says Oteh. Previously, her distinguished international career included serving as group... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
When millions of Americans started social distancing due to the spread of coronavirus, Caribu co-founder and CEO Maxeme Tuchman (MBA/MPP 2012) didn’t hesitate to lift the paywall on her company’s interactive video-calling platform, which... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
develop an impact investing conference in Shanghai. On December 19, 150 pioneers in social enterprise and impact investing, other practitioners, and academics in China gathered for engaging discussions about the topic. “As a native of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
instead of waiting until disaster strikes? “San José’s CIO Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative drew on a concept Airbnb... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares As the founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) is establishing herself within the high-stakes contest to own the catalogs of music that attract users to View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
Curriculum or in Executive Education, where the synergies with their own work and deeper interactions with students give them a platform for refining their ideas. For Serafeim, teaching Reimagining Capitalism: Big Business and Big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
a missed opportunity. “Blockchain platforms are mini-economies written in code,” she explains. These digital systems are intended to help people carry out transactions and create value. And who better to help guide the implementation of a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private sector is in a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2000
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Strike Up the Broad(band)
social utility -- the enjoyment of fulfillment people derive from consuming a good or utilizing a service." Beyond movies-on-demand and videoconferencing, the authors say "the most savvy service providers, such as telephone and cable... View Details