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- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
regional trade and regional integration by facilitating connections between entrepreneurs from the various countries and also helping them expand more easily to other markets. “And the third priority at Suguba is really to enhance and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
entrepreneurial activities so that the mistakes of earlier efforts are not repeated. He looks at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents, explains why some View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit group of businesspeople who believe that sound environmental policy and economic progress are not mutually exclusive. With about four hundred members nationwide, E2 works directly with the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
saw in his company's entry-level hires. When he retired in 1992, he decided to do something about it by running for the Seattle school board. "If you want to change public education," he says, "you have to get inside the system." When he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face of public policy,... 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
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Professor of Management Practice. Another 20 leading investors and entrepreneurs spoke on panels and in private break-out sessions to round out the conference, which was timed in three-hour blocks over the two days to accommodate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
Two years ago, if you bet me five bucks that I was going to be a school-teacher, I would have taken that bet in a heartbeat.” When his students question the relevance of precalculus to their future lives, entrepreneur turned high-school... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance, there’s this large View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Atlanta Entrepreneurs Honor Nussey’s Impacts on Tech and Solar Catherine Cates (MBA 1983) & Bill Nussey (MBA 1996) Steve Kirschner (MBA 1986), Bill Nussey (MBA 1996), & John Yates (event host) Nussey presenting to HBS alumni Nussey and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
Edited by April White Josh King(photo via LinkedIn) Josh King (photo via LinkedIn) “The first question you have to ask yourself is, ‘Do I have something original to say, something that hasn’t been said before?’ ” —Josh King (PGL 2, 1999), View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
institutional change should be the responsibility of aspiring and accomplished leaders everywhere,” says Kanter. Why do we need advanced leaders now? Problems like climate change, racial and gender disparity, health issues, and educational shortfalls are in the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From that vantage point, Pieri... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
but some young entrepreneurs are picking up on it — Nasdaq Japan listed forty companies last year. With only 10 percent of private investors participating in the securities market, Saeki sees enormous room for growth. “This country still... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
entrepreneurs succeed. Yet most of us learn them only the hard way. Green shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business, explaining how to locate sure-bet opportunities for improving products, get serious about... View Details