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- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for HPE compared the lives of two people with autism living on their own—one in Dandelion, one not. The person not in the program collects $16,838 a year in government welfare benefits, while the one in Dandelion View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
knew or understood. "The goodwill earned and accrued by earlier generations of HBS graduates has paved the way for the current generation of HBS students to enjoy access to incredible opportunities, yet with... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
for 14 years. Bhargava landed at HBS because he wanted to get his MBA “from the best place” and because his older brother, Bharat, had earned his from HBS in 1967. He graduated into a recession, taking a job with Tri-Chem, Inc. in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
all we heard were the sounds of insects and the flutes played by the night watchmen who cared for cows and buffalo. We were afraid of the dark, because we heard stories about witches and goblins eating people caught outside after sundown. "My father did almost nothing... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
first-place finish earned $2,000. Video Embed A 2006 in-flight conversation between Jones and Rogers that led to the formation of Local Motors. But after graduation, the reality of starting a car company from scratch—the actual process,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
programming, so you have to give me your attention. The reality is that you don’t have to give me your attention anymore. I have to earn it. What makes CP+B different? We don’t think of ourselves as an advertising agency in the typical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
sector, and the influence of networks and social capital on accessing human and financial capital. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the venture capital industry and raises questions about why women have so much difficulty getting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
high-growth potential, but they need access to high-quality professional services to help them achieve their objectives,” Tierney says. “Bridgespan and Bridgestar tend to work with organizations with annual gross receipts between $1... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
had honed throughout his 33-year career, he overhauled the company’s culture, redefined its leadership capability, and increased earnings by a compound annual growth rate of 125 percent. In No Bullsh!t Leadership, Moore outlines his... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
earning their MBAs, almost half had broken away from a rapidly changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
development rendering some knowledge obsolete and a global knowledge explosion democratizing access to the rest. Titles are losing their signaling value. Autocrats of the breakfast table (a book title 150 years ago) get pushback from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in 1909, he earned a scholarship... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Because global brands begin to create access to global income. And three, because they work with Andela and our model is distributed, they live and work in their local countries. And so whatever they're View Details