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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
company with a business model selling affordable housing to first-time home buyers among the country’s poor, and outperforming the Tokyo Nikkei index. Chu coauthored the case, “Katitas: Home Ownership for the Majority of Japan,” and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Amy Hernandez Turcios (MBA 2020)
to go to college because my family couldn’t afford it but thanks to QuestBridge, a non-profit that helps low-income high-achieving students attend the nation’s top schools, I received a full-ride scholarship to attend the University of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
challenge after another. "Take India, for example," she says. "How do you get people who use twigs to brush their teeth to trade up to something as alien as toothpaste?" (The answer, she explains, is through grassroots education and marketing, intermediate products... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
Leschly led students through conversations, Q+A sessions, and presentations aimed at inspiring change and innovation in the sector. The lauded American dream, Leschly posed, rests heavily on the promise of higher education—a supposedly universally accessible and View Details
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
periodicals like Aperture magazine. Harold Livesay observes that in the way Henry Ford envisioned the Model T as an affordable means of transportation for all, so too did Land see his products as opening "vistas of art and communication... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
company Mobley to offer an alternative: an affordable way to furnish a home with stylish, quality pieces with a lease of 3 to 12 months, without the burden of ownership. Mobley’s entrée to the $230 billion market for furniture and home... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
board search is a loss leader for building the connections and relationships needed to support the traditional search firm’s primary revenue stream. We designed Trewstar not to compete with or disrupt the search firm industry, but to fill a gap that other firms could... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
staff and given assignments at Merck's research facilities. Through its network of associated colleges, UNCF affords Merck access to bright minority students with an interest in science, and these students are in turn provided access to... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers making a dollar or two a day couldn't View Details
- Profile
Mi Zhou
lower savings rates and stimulate consumption? How do we make housing, reliable health care, and quality education more affordable to everyone?” Update: After graduating from HBS in 2011, Mi moved to Hong Kong. She first worked as an... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-107 Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits in the United States This background note explores the basic themes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
affords them greater control over service quality and customer experience, in return for which they accept the added costs of being employers. Hornet's nest The decision by some marketplaces-for-services to treat their workers as... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
afford them. In the traditional category, Alec Machiels (MBA '01), and his MIT and Harvard teammates Paul Ashby, David Darst, Jason Hong, Scot Sternson, Martin Szummer, and Angie You created the winning plan for Potentia Pharmaceuticals,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
least 75 percent of India’s consumer goods sales despite the significant inefficiencies of an outdated business model. “Kiranas are limited-inventory, 2,000- to 5,000-square-foot shops that don’t always get on-time deliveries or access to View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
focusing on hiring impostors anyway? There are probably plenty of other candidates with more “normal” confidence levels, motivations, and abilities. An organization comprised solely of impostors could be a pretty exhausting, chaotic place. On the other hand, can we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
getting lower-cost devices to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them? A $14B market would seem to have ample room for a niche player that focuses on corporate social responsibility while still being profitable." —Allison... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates components of shelter, education, skill development and livelihood creation and affords residents a basic standard of living. What should the blueprint of this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
your experience is the result of how you choose to prioritize them. As a new dad, I have decided to prioritize time with family at the very top of my list and it has been great! I am confident that I will look back years from now and appreciate all the opportunities... View Details