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- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
$649B in stimulus funds to small businesses. We are targeting these funds to underserved communities and critical supply chains. Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021), Lucas Santos (MBA 2022) and Truc Nguyen (MBA... View Details
- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Keeping the Coast Clear
Rhode Island’s resources for generations. Stone has led the group—the Ocean State’s largest environmental organization—since 2009; he joined as a volunteer in 1989. Considering it’s the smallest state in the country, Rhode Island has a... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Risk and Rewards
Adebayo Ogunlesi (MBA 1979) is chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners. In this interview he talks about the rewards of taking risks on unexpected opportunities. “People often ask me, ‘What is the best advice you ever received in your life?’ “As... View Details
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
proposal, please visit MBA Recruiting - Field-Based Learning. Please note: With greater numbers of students pursuing activities away from campus, and with increased instability in a number of regions of the world, the School has developed guidelines and an approach to... View Details
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
The Medicaid program provides a much needed health insurance safety net for 52 million of our nation's poor and medically needy, but its price tag threatens the financial stability of the states, growing 9.5 percent in 2004 alone—far in excess of revenues. Fiscally... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
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Scott Wu
was born in Taiwan, and my mother and I came to the States when I was just about five,” explains the 46-year-old Wu. “When we first arrived, my family really struggled. Living through that process, we were assisted by organizations that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
helping public schools improve their curricula and their methods of working with disadvantaged children. Doerr is cofounder of the New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF), a venture philanthropy fund created by... View Details
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Malcolm Little
As the oldest of six kids who grew up together in Richmond, Virginia, Malcolm Little found the University of Virginia to be "a strong state school – and a good one for our family economically." UVA proved even stronger when,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
Curiel: Investing in young people who grew up as migrant farmworkers. Photo courtesy Martin Curiel Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) wants you to invest in dreams. Through the Rising Farmworkers Dream Fund (RFDF), the nonprofit he cofounded with... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
reveals wild fluctuations. As Judge Medina stated when reviewing the changing rankings of underwriters a half-century ago, “The only pattern is no pattern.” Thus, the reality of the market seems dramatically different from the typical... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
upgrades—has been ongoing since 2015. One key strategy has been to advocate at the state level to increase funding for broadband and to partner with state governors (49 so far)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
visitor engagement. “In the United States we have a number of discrete, unrelated houses and centers dedicated to individual writers, but no single location celebrating the country’s rich, diverse literature,” Hammer says. He joined... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
largest rivers. “Our biggest problem in Colombia, as in most of our underdeveloped countries, is poverty,” states Ospina. “And one way to fight poverty is through engineering.” The son of former Colombian president Mariano Ospina Perez,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
the public sector or nonprofit world, as well as in the business world. “When we start closing minds, we jeopardize our competitiveness.” I've been concerned about what has happened to the United States in the 21st century because we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector In debating how to approach its support of nonprofit leaders to attend HBS executive education programs, the Harvard Club of Australia–Victoria decided the best strategy was to make an impact in one sector. Since 2001, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
differences between consumers in the United States and Europe was just one of the topics covered at the fourth annual European Business Conference, presented November 21 and 22 by students of the HBS European Club. Other panels considered... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
less than $30,000. Wearing her global hat, Erika congratulated Europeans for their EV adoption and lamented that fewer than 2% of vehicles sold in the United States are electric vehicles. She noted that Norway ranks number 1 in per capita... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) Bob Ryan (MBA 1970), the first in his family to attend college, has come a long way from his Detroit roots. When the former chief financial officer (CFO) of Medtronic set up a fellowship fund at HBS, he wanted to pay... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details
Keywords: April White