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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
people are included in the labor market today,” says Rewane. “This is not just a West Africa problem—it’s a global problem. We’re learning from on-the-ground implementation, looking to work in partnership with bigger players like... View Details
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Africa - Global Activities 2021
reflects on how another devastating health-related crisis—the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016—influenced her decision to pursue economic development to make a lasting impact on the African continent, which... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
Quick Research Resources Use Capital IQ to explore key professionals, financial operating metrics, M&A/private placement, and more in the Latin America and Caribbean market. Go to: Markets > Geographies > Latin America and Caribbean Learn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Celebrations in LA, Florida, London
pursue the School’s mission with a high degree of excellence.” Thanks to film executive Alan F. Horn (MBA ’71), who opened the Warner Bros. Studio lot to HBS, the Los Angeles event was a memorable evening for the several hundred West... View Details
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Tools | New Venture Competition
quite sure how to tackle writing a social impact business plan? This workshop provides an introduction of key elements of a social enterprise business plan and approaches on how to build your venture. Developing a Social Enterprise... View Details
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Nneka Ezeigwe
yourself? I’m taking advantage of HBS’ focus on entrepreneurship to test myself and see if this is a path I’d want to take in the future. With one of my classmates, I entered the New Venture Competition this year. Our idea: a fast-fashion retailer for View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
wide array of subject areas, including agriculture, textile manufacturing, hardware and tools, railroads, automobiles, aviation, consumer products, furnishings, leisure goods, and scientific instruments. Henry Villard Business Papers German-born financier Henry Villard... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
like most, failed. But the experience made him curious about the differences between entrepreneurial winners and losers. Having written a book about West Point, he resolved to turn his attention to “the West... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the MCC’s View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
Bank estimated that 40 percent of the country’s population lacked access to electricity in 2016—“but we hope it encourages and inspires other leaders,” he adds. Entrepreneurs are key to Africapitalism, says Elumelu. That’s why the Tony... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
ethical awareness and avoiding potential threats to an organization's reputation. The second appendix, "Bridging East and West in Management Ethics," has been revised and updated to discuss certain basic similarities between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dan Vallone
You graduated from West Point, which is famous for leadership, and served as an infantry officer for five years. What did HBS add to your understanding of leadership? In the military, I was accustomed to thinking five to ten years in... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
ventures. “In Nigeria and across West Africa, there are tremendous opportunities to transform the agricultural landscape,” the Nwunelis said. Kola Masha (MBA 2006) sees smallholder agriculture as the key to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
of the faculty from every unit across the School, the interviews are a resource to teach business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as at HBS. Here, Jones and Khanna discuss what makes these leaders so effective and what the View Details
- 18 May 2011
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Man with a Plan
News (February, 13, 2011). Therein lies the broad impact of his “Yella Fella” TV ads, in which Rane stars as the yellow-clad cowboy who saves the West from rotting wood with his pressure-treated pine, known as YellaWood. “They'll probably... View Details
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Dan Lennox-Choate
married in West Point's Cadet Chapel. But in at least one important way, Daniel is wrong: He exemplifies the courage expected from the archetypal officer. When asked to share a story from his military experience, Daniel is unafraid to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
business teams experience. “We pursued the idea for the case,” he says, “after Scott, who is a West Point grad and former teacher there, told me about his friend, the Army crew coach, Stas Preczewski. One season, Coach P, as he’s... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
beverage business incubator when it opens later this year. Located right next to a public transportation stop, the new facility will spur economic activity in one of Chicago’s highest need neighborhoods, East Garfield Park on Chicago’s View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Business School has vast holdings documenting many aspects of the history of the railroads and growth of big business nationally and internationally. Please contact us for more information. Henry Villard Business Papers German-born financier Henry Villard (1835-1900)... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
volumes, and in the spirit of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, I sought to pull together my research and conclusions in this book, in the hope of reaching broader audiences. I address three key themes. First, I show that... View Details