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Teams | New Venture Competition
wholesale markets. Oply Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025), Gabe Chrismon Oply is an AI-powered home management assistant that predicts, organizes and automates home maintenance, saving homeowners time and preventing costly repairs. By... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
rebuilding Iraq. However, I was disappointed that the article did not include a photograph of President Bush delivering a fake turkey to the troops on Thanksgiving or in his flyboy suit in front of the grand “Mission Accomplished” banner. Perhaps these images are being... View Details
Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)
Katz took some of her family savings to place a small ad in Seventeen magazine for small handbags and belts in 1951. Within a few weeks, she had received $16,000 worth of orders, and sales have skyrocketed ever since. She began expanding... View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Ryan Kennedy
I have a special place in my heart for McDonald's. Not the Happy Meals or golden fries. I value the opportunity that McDonald's provided my family. My dad started work there at age sixteen, and my mom joined soon after. Both worked hard, View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
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Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
agriculture, poultry production, and savings and lending services. In December 2015, it “graduated” its first three villages in Senegal. “They reached self-sufficiency, which is the holy grail of this work,” says Ruhr, a former corporate... View Details
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Graham Evans
was humanly possible. Do I want to teach others as I learn? If my comments are anything to go by, this is not my vocation. By process of elimination it should be clear by now, that having thrown out banking, consulting, VC, Fortune 500 firms, and academia, the careers... View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Stepping back from the day-to-day demands of leading Save the Children... A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian MBA 1992 Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his li... Tools of the Trade Shannah Varon MBA 2009 As... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
access to immediate help in the event of a medical, police, or fire emergency. RAJU’S BRAINCHILD: In just two years, EMRI’s ambulances have delivered life-saving medical service to more than 11,000 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Raju’s goal is to expand the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
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JJ Singh
declined. After 28 years of service in the Department of Veterans Affairs, he was months away from retirement. He was squirreling away his vacation days — each representing a few hundred dollars. "This will all be your money when I die," he said. My parents... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
College Daze
American parents wholeheartedly believe in the importance of a college education, but relatively few are saving enough for that not-so-distant day when Junior's whopping tuition bills will start rolling in. Enter UPromise, Inc., a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
education, leveraging "Nollywood"—Nigeria's film industry, ranked third largest in the world—to promote a culture of saving and investing among Nigerians. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Distinct Yet of a Piece
Their office locations range from the summit of a skyscraper in Boston to the front seat of a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Their workdays may be dedicated to helping build companies or to helping save lives. They can be found discussing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
little on edge about physical conditioning.” Bailey spoke proudly of another sort of conditioning: “Our seawater air- conditioning system at our Bora-Bora property saves two-thirds of the electricity used by a conventional system.” View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect
University. Indeed, HBS is catalyzing the development of discoveries and enterprises that will benefit society. Annual giving to the HBS Fund by alumni and friends makes this possible. Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives Predicting... View Details
- December 1998
- Article
Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France
By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck
A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France
Nicholas, Tom, Elisa Boccaletti, and James Foreman-Peck. "Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France." European Review of Economic History (December 1998).
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
regulation and an overview of how those changes will affect almost everyone. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118758714.html August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Savings in Transnational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2015
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4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
user experience based on the feedback we received. Gradually, people to whom we showed the site became more and more excited about the savings they could find. In the early days, we acquired users on a person-by-person basis. We would... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Making a Difference in the World
Alliance to Save Energy, 2009. PC Energy report, 2009 “Transportation ” Union of Concerned Scientists, Common Sense on Climate Change Solution #1 “Power plants ” Union of Concerned Scientists, Common Sense on Climate Change #2 View Details