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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
for something completely new. They returned to campus that fall ready to devote serious time to their nascent idea: a decentralized car company that produced region-specific, small-batch vehicles in microfactories. They enrolled in an View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
of management practice Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004) told the Journal. Before joining the HBS faculty, Weiss was chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Weiss notes that more than 70 students registered for his course on View Details
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- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
broad-based success, coupled with Atlantic-branded events and rising advertising revenues, has driven six straight years of profitability. Sometimes described as a “media mogul,” Bradley never expected to find himself leading an organization charged with informing and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
the Colorado field office of B Lab, a nonprofit organization that seeks to redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations—companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
Ilana L. Goldman (MBA ’02) always knew that she wanted to work in the public sector. But she didn’t expect to find herself back on the HBS campus just eighteen months after graduation talking about her new job. Goldman is vice president... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
The company has raised $500,000 through private funding and government grants. “Diabetes is not just a medical problem, it’s a lifestyle and a social problem rooted in rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a holistic approach where engineers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
South Africa and the UK. A City Year, Inc. trustee and cochair of its international committee, Reilly says the organization’s current efforts are “laser-focused on helping teachers and public schools address the high-school dropout... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
and the students, the course, Entrepreneurship in Education Reform, has become part of the fabric of the School. "Other business schools may say 'That's not our jurisdiction'—but that's not true. There are a lot of management issues in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
entrepreneur, who grew up in the Philippines, offers a successful model for balancing work and life. When she rang the bell at the NYSE earlier this year, launching Care.com’s initial public offering, she was surrounded by her family and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
School's first course on public entrepreneurship. I said to my students in late January, ’Good morning and welcome to Public Entrepreneurship.’ It was the first time that those words were uttered in any... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Partners, the social enterprise track winner, plans to create a for-profit education management company operating charter and contract K–12 public schools. “Winning was very affirming and gave us a renewed energy to carry out our plan,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Nair, who received his medical training in India and a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Gita's case demonstrates not only the importance of getting good primary care but also that patients are willing to... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
CFO in 1996. “We took that company from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars in capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company in the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
President Obama, explained Professor David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and one of four members of an afternoon keynote panel. While social enterprise organizations once viewed... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
nonetheless. She cofounded Minds Matter, a now-nationwide mentoring and college preparatory nonprofit that launched her on a lifelong mission to improve public education. Named Woman of the Year by the California State Assembly in 2014... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
“People often seem surprised when I tell them that unemployment among veterans is lower than the general population,” states Peter Gudmundsson (MBA 1990), president and CEO of RecruitMilitary, a leading military-to-civilian recruiting firm. “I think there’s a View Details