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- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Rewane, a native of Lagos, Nigeria. In its first three years, WAVE has helped more than 1,000 students. Rewane, who was recently named a Social Impact Fellow by Gerson Lehrman Group Inc., expects to train 25,000 people by 2019. Her... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
compete for a $50,000 grand prize and a $25,000 second prize—plus meet this year's Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. The contest, designed to support promising alumni ventures, is hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock... View Details
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
become staples of our modern country and economy: beauty products, national sales forces, and corporate social responsibility. Who Owns Space? Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are tapping into their vast personal wealth to make... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program
Ten new MBAs have taken positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the help of the School’s Leadership Fellows program. Now in its sixth year, the program provides fellows with one-year appointments at a competitive salary, supported in part by... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off
a social media presence. Those weren't the only connections they used in building the business. The pair tapped into their networks to try and land a spot on the hit television show, Shark Tank. They got the idea from pitching their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
and become mere purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Moral ideals that once inspired business schools have been replaced by the view that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private sector is in a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
smoothie increases happiness and is also a great socializing experience: more than 40% of our users stated to have met someone new or interacted with a colleague they had not talked to for a long time. The highlight so far was certainly a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Extending goodwill to all in the global community
Industries for the Blind and the first blind person to graduate from HBS, Gibbons strongly believes in applying business skills to pressing societal problems. “By using the tools already at their disposal,” he says, "corporate leaders can ensure that View Details
- Profile
Maria Brewer
professional setting and love the creating phase of a business, particularly in early stage startups. I also realized that there were many ways to be involved in socially oriented businesses and personally joined the council of an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
venture in 2008 after winning the School's Social Enterprise Conference competition, "Pitch for Change." Falik also received the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship in 2009.... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
social e-commerce operated there in lower income areas. During that trip, he identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America and the entrepreneurship seed was planted yet again. It was... View Details
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Wendi Zhang
business development/product partnerships for Google Pixel, Wearables, and Accessories as well as a few verticals of Google Home and Chromecast within Google's Devices & Services (formerly Google Hardware) team, ran business development for 3 other tech startups, and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation and other inputs. In 2000,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Lab to Open in ’11
Related Links Dean Nohria on Innovation at HBS (video) - June 4, 2010 Harvard Business School is working to launch a lab for innovation and entrepreneurship in the building that housed public broadcasting’s WGBH on Western Avenue in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
companies are emerging is so different. It’s not that the raw stock of entrepreneurship is different in either country. But the ways in which Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs — whether they are businesspeople, View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
"doing isn't leading." Asserting that the math skills needed to build a company are simple, he said, "If you buy something for a dollar and sell it for five dollars, you will be rich. The key is OB, social psychology, and leading. This is... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 08 Feb 2011
- News