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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
population like an insurance product. Wellthy is trying to solve a painful problem for employees and employers, not spread the risk of that problem. I suggest charging a fee for service only to active users, and asking employers to... 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 rate for the working-age View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
Military Memories Re: The Military and the MBA Photo courtesy of Phil Curtis As a member of the Class of 1974, we were thrown into the midst of the travails of the Vietnam War and were populated by a number of patriotic officers serving... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
population is under 25, and youth unemployment stands at 28 percent. “The human capital is there,” she says. “And they are thinking outside of the box.” In many ways, BulkWhiz, which has now grown to more than 50 employees and could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
direction. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Making Democracy Work Navigating the Populism Phenomenon Building a Strong and Prosperous Society Maintaining a Resilient Democracy View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 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
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
States, because we’ve brought all of the tools we’ve built to connect with underserved communities around the globe to populations right here, in our own backyard,” notes Risher. Thus far, Worldreader has reached 19 million readers in 48... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
2013–2014. I would attempt to get 40–50 percent market penetration before someone else gets the idea. That’s 500–600 customers. Then start selling the ancillary services. You have a geographic advantage in California, and there are lots of open spaces going east until... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
for HBS. Steve Taylor (MBA ’71) Park City, UT Is Current Capitalist Model Sustainable? The March Bulletin was uplifting. I was very pleased with the news about Al Gore visiting the campus and Garry Emmons’s article addressing the problem of a growing View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Photos by Karen Campbell Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018) grew up in Goodrich, North Dakota, population 126. Her high school had 15 students; her graduating class, just two. So when teenaged Feickert, a gifted basketball player who was six... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
build the Mexico of tomorrow? Big corporations or emerging entrepreneurs?” The answer was so clear that he switched careers in order to invest in entrepreneurs bringing goods and services to the 70 percent of Mexico’s population who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Korea, and Singapore, as role models for what he hopes to achieve. “Across the countries in Africa, roughly 5 percent of the population has completed university. We want to be part of the catalyst of taking that to 20, 30, even 40 percent... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
could make an impact.” India has a population of 1.4 billion people, and some 25 percent of adults are illiterate. To improve the educational outcomes for current and future generations, Mahajan, Gupta, and three friends cofounded Rocket... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
community? In the next fifty years, the current global economic and population balance will be turned on its head. Today’s rich countries will need to adjust to a significant drop in their share of the world’s income. As Africa’s share of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
special set of clients. “We aimed to serve disadvantaged populations and the organizations that serve those populations.” From the beginning, Bridgespan has focused on a special set of clients. “We aimed to serve disadvantaged View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
than their share of scarce environmental resources and therefore must now consume less," observes Fri. "Another is that the developing countries, whose exploding populations threaten to tax the carrying capacity of the planet, must... View Details