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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
results five years hence," says Meyer of her and Mbeki's tenure. "People will ask, Is there peace in Africa? Is there a sense of world order? Do South Africans have access to electricity? That will be the test." Meyer expects the level of... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
midst of starting Valiente College Prep, a Los Angeles charter school set to open in August 2015. “In America, we have millions of jobs that will need to be filled in engineering, science, and technology. We absolutely need to access and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
access that opportunity: (1) Develop a small set of critical core values that truly define your culture. (2) Hire and retain only people who clearly and strongly exemplify those values. That will make it much easier to maintain your... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
that serves as a phone, a PDA, and an e-mail and Internet access device. Handspring quickly became the fastest-growing company in American history at the time. It went public in 2000, but after the dot-com bust, the company found itself... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) could feel his heart beating as he verified that the money had been deposited correctly. It had. And each officer had received a text message to that effect. But none of the men had been able to read the message or View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
activity already exists. The process within the stimulus funding has been absolutely the opposite. It’s been opaque, and since it’s been difficult to figure out what’s going on, clean-tech companies have hired lobbyists to try to access... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
talented individuals in different countries in Africa and connect them to a global ecosystem. By doing that one, you're allowing them to learn to work with teams around the world that are at the cutting edge of what they're doing in the space. Two, is you're giving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
difficulty getting access to start-up capital. When you have to meet a payroll, the issue of fulfilling both personal and professional responsibilities still looms large. Cynthia Montgomery I recently talked about the School's celebration... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal government’s attempts to View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurship in the minds of youth and of job creation,” Bhargava says. I Create’s other program, Creating Job Creators (CJC), works with disadvantaged women, unemployed youth, and recently discharged soldiers to provide a comprehensive training and mentoring... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
finding solutions to complex challenges. If companies decide it is in their best interest to include humanitarian activities in their core branding and human capital strategies, the same business skills that bring cell phones to Sudan, for example, will improve View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
private sector, for one, do more. “There is a responsibility, particularly in a global economy, for corporations to invest in educating children around the world,” she says. “A lot of the insecurity in the world stems from populations that are largely uneducated and... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
randomness” that says where you are born should dictate the opportunities and access you’re going to have in your life. And so she has chased down entrepreneur fellowships in college as she moved through UNC and graduated with high... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
of planting manually, and drones can be operated day and night, can replant forests immediately following fires, and can access difficult terrain that would be dangerous for people. Dodi says the company takes a holistic approach to each... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
Network, farmers can now access over 30 million acres of data to better understand everything from seed selection to matching soil types. Within the network, implementing more sustainable practices is also becoming easier, he added. “It... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
the flowers are cultivated on easily accessible platforms. Porter's ideas, while inspiring to some, remain controversial. "Many people would argue that although pollution prevention is good business in some cases, it is not good business... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
inefficiencies of highly hierarchical organizations by having a completely open attitude about what information is available to employees. Our business is changing so rapidly and individual managers are forced to make so many decisions that restricting View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
and access knowledge. Pham chronicles her path to becoming one of the most successful entrepreneurs of her generation and offers specific advice that covers everything from overcoming self-doubt and pursuing side-hustles to crushing it at... View Details