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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
seemingly simple wooden construction, she explains, is really “over the top” in a country where the median household income hovers around $25,000. Reade is doing her part to help the local economy gain momentum. Over the years her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
see their interactions with others in ways they could not before, and provided them with a set of skills to change those interactions. The training mimicked real-life situations, such as negotiating with parents or siblings over household... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar screens. Westinghouse was a... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
him. They still run the company, and they also manage a household that includes their three children. Execution Is Critical Entrepreneurship is difficult even when the idea is great, the teams are complementary, and conditions seem ideal.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
addition to access to resources, a big inequity we’re seeing revolves around childcare. In many of our lower-income neighborhoods, which is where most of our schools are, you have a lot of single-family households run by a mother who has... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
million would be saved in annual energy costs. If each household replaced its appliances with the most efficient available, $15 billion of savings in energy costs would result. The top 3,000 public companies cause over $2.15 trillion, or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
the resident experts when case discussions focused on household goods such as laundry detergent. "Maybe without intending to do so, they were making it evident that we were different," she observes. "I didn't want to be singled out. I... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
startup formation has been on the decline since the early 1980s; and real median household income is well below its peak in 1999. Most economic gains have gone instead to the wealthy and big businesses. Today’s 5.1 percent unemployment... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
dinner and do other household chores before darkness falls. Lack of electricity is also a health concern. Poindexter recalls hearing of a baby in need of urgent care in the middle of the night. The clinic had no electricity. As the doctor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
randomized control studies started to emerge that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household income, business growth, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
personalities in approachability, authenticity, and other criteria that were considered aspects of their overall influence. The top 5—and 6 of the top 10—were YouTube stars, outranking household names such as Jennifer Lawrence, Katy... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
point in public consciousness as private equity has bought more companies and larger companies, some of which are household names. Last year, private-equity firms raised a record amount of funds. Do you expect another record this year? I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
MeraDoctor, a consultation-by-telephone business staffed 24 hours a day by eight licensed physicians. A for-profit company that charges subscribers a monthly fee of 100 rupees (about $2) for unlimited consultations for up to six household... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
place, and did you always want to be an entrepreneur? Caren Kelleher: My love of music, and I'd say entrepreneurship, started very young. I grew up in a household full of music. My dad was a real rock-and-roll guy, and started teaching me... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Personally, how do you feel you changed when you made that transition? Sulyman: I think it really opened my mind. I was very sheltered growing up in Lagos, Nigeria. Very loving parents, grew up in the household of five people, two... View Details