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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
technology to promote land registration and security, improving access to capital, and creating a more efficient judicial system. Tanzania, 2008–2013. Investments of $698 million (the largest MCC commitment to date) will improve roads, thus increasing View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
existing scaled-up technologies in the mining industry for the novel application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment applications and mobile marketing... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business. “Chet Edwards has not always had a great record with us on pro-enterprise votes,” notes Pete Hovel, regional director of congressional and public affairs in the U.S.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
of the Treasury Janet Yellen also recognizes the role of Latinx businesses in the US economy. In her remarks at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Virtual Legislative Summit in 2020, she said: “If someone tried to design an economic... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
pesticide exposure, diet, or perhaps complex interactions among all those factors and others. “With honey-bee health problems there are multiple possible causes,” says Crespin, who also works on sustainability issues as a senior fellow for the US Chamber of View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
careers, maximize their employment opportunities, and protect their employment rights. His belief in the effectiveness of public-private partnerships resulted in Hiring Our Heroes, a partnership with the US Chamber of Commerce and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
recalls. After consulting at the Stanford Research Institute and teaching at Stanford Business School and UC Berkeley’s business school, America worked in the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Small Business Administration, focusing on... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
food products, he had traveled frequently on business to the USSR and other Central and East European countries in the Soviet Bloc, thus gaining a knowledge of Soviet-style commerce few other Westerners could claim. Between 1985 and 1992,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
ensures an intervention reaches all those who need it, at the lowest price and in the shortest amount of time." Could a similar, market-driven approach be enlisted in the world's fight against disease and illness? As Chu notes, commerce... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
use becomes more mainstream," she says, "hospitals will be seeing this as a service they'll routinely want to offer their patients." —L.G. « Back Virtual Commerce Like the phone or fax, the Internet is now another major tool for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
innovate to be more immersive. I’ll be keeping a close eye on how Instagram’s and Snapchat’s advertising models evolve. “Finally, 2016 will be the year that social commerce takes off. I only hope my wallet can withstand the usage!” -Laura... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
hospitals. It seems inevitable Bhargava would start an enterprise aimed at creating social change, having come from a family with a rich history of public service. His father founded the Commerce College in their home state of Rajasthan;... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
two, and it's a real pain in the ass, and this is one of the things that really is hurting, I think, tourism in Africa and is really hurting commerce in Africa. The borders are extremely inefficient and painstaking. I mean, it took me,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
air. Says Bart Harvey, "The Chamber of Commerce of Orange County, California, one of the wealthier areas in the United States, has approached the Enterprise Foundation for help with affordable housing. They are concerned about a range of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
But bribery and corruption do more than divert wealth from legitimate commerce or investment in long-term growth: They help cement the power of corrupt regimes, institutionalize injustice, frustrate entrepreneurship, and undermine a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
for example, Kanter worked with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts on a forum held at HBS in April 1994, which helped stimulate the formation of the Alliance for the Commonwealth, a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
mentors. They have a vision of how they want to live their lives, and I still try to emulate them. And HBS helped make it all possible! BARBARA HACKMAN FRANKLIN Barbara Hackman Franklin (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964), former US Commerce... View Details