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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

inspired New England's high-tech boom and the spread of companies that began to populate Route 128 surrounding Boston and Cambridge. A number of ARD employees also went on to start their own venture capital firms: William Elfers (HBS MBA... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

is very significant damage,” observes Cohen, who is the author of IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change. “It’s also a sign of a broken system,” he says. “Capitalism has created huge benefits to populations across the globe... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

Hubert, SVP at Viacom and head of Scratch, the company’s “creative SWAT team.” That means change on a global scale: Millennials, currently one-third of the global population and more than 85 million strong in the United States, are... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert

particular, the diversity of the population CWE serves: About half of last year’s sixteen hundred clients were low-income individuals. The variety of the programs and services offered by CWE reflects the diversity of its clients. Those at... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 22

light of India's growing population and demand for dairy. How could he maintain the firm's cooperative structure, address the nutritional needs of all Indians, make use of emerging technology, and navigate the country's dairy policies in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2021
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Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

on women’s health in Mexico? In Mexico, 50% of health care spending is out of pocket, and the government system is underfunded and at overcapacity. Only 8% of the population can afford insurance. There are many tech-enabled startups... View Details

30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas

everyone is trying to reach the same goal, but contributing in different ways, or if you’re trying to make a transaction with another company, inevitably the process works,” says Callahan. That approach plays out every day that Sail to Prevail takes its diverse View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

are affected by local factors. Thus we might have declines in real estate values in places where the local population is aging and there is no younger population to replace them. View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

you note in the book, only 10 percent of the world's population live in countries considered totally democratic. Does democracy need a marketing campaign? If so, who should run it? A: No one is marketing democracy. The Carter Center... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report

Curve Diverse boards (and leadership teams at large) are not just more reflective of the populations they serve—they’re better positioned to spot emerging trends and navigate complex challenges. As Boris Groysberg and J. Yo-Jud Cheng... View Details

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

governance issues that have slowed economic growth, especially since the global financial crisis. Having suffered heavily from COVID-19 in part because of its large elderly population (Italy has one of the highest life expectancies in... View Details

12 Feb 2025
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How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)

excited about? Having lived in many cities, I find myself drawn to the built environment. Not only are we upgrading our current cities, but we’re building new cities to accommodate a changing global population. The UN predicts the world's View Details

23 Sep 2010
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How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?

telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

often has as much to do with their relationships with one another as their concern for the company. "Boards are populated by living, breathing people who have their own interests, and understanding the makeup of the board is very... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

including K-12, higher education, and executive education. Interesting Opportunities Frustrating yes, but full of interesting opportunities to try new ideas and make a difference, said the panelists. The "baby boom echo" will create a fairly stable K-12 View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

13 Feb 2025
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IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

fastest-growing major economies in the world and currently the third-largest global emitter of greenhouse gases, yet, on a per capita basis, it remains below the world average of 2 tons per person annually.2,3 The country’s population of... View Details

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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library

list people with disabilities as populations they serve. Review Capital IQ Pro 's "Assistive Technology" market map, which consists of companies that develop products and technology solutions designed to assist individuals with... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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The True Value of a Tweet

for example? Are they talking about labor practices? Are they talking about cost? What are the issues on their minds? You can even use that minute-by-minute information to create a dynamic map. The caveat is that you might get a biased sample: In most cases, 5 percent... View Details