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Nikhil Patel Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Mobility in the Motor City: My Summer at the City of Detroit Office of the Mayor Nikhil... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get... View Details
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Catherine Yeo | MBA
a mobile game to learn new vocabulary, a task they struggled with in English classes. From that moment on, I recognized the power of technology in solving community problems. My experience organizing ten hackathons for 6,000+ young... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
approach to order fulfillment is based on the disarming efficiency of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots. When orders are received, the robots are directed by a complex software application to find and retrieve the desired... View Details
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Creighton Taylor
2 experience in Accra, Ghana. There, Creighton’s team worked with the country’s largest entertainment company, Multimedia, to develop a mobile app for its media site. “I was both new to the industry and new to the continent,” Creighton... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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An American Story
helped edit his dissertation, “World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market.” “His sentences sometimes ran on and on in the Germanic way, so I would tighten them up a bit,” she remembers. In a tough job... View Details
- 13 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe
View Video TRANSCRIPT Magashe Ngoepe: My purpose in life is to increase access to meaningful opportunities that allow people to have upward social mobility in society, and to have greater quality of life, specifically geared towards South... View Details
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Can You Use Your Personal Device for Work? Read HBS IT’s Guide | Information Technology
your mobile phone or personal laptop to access email, for example, you need to ensure that we are using personal devices in a way that protects our devices and the information to which we have access. This is true regardless of the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
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Positive prompts: Sal Khan on AI in the classroom and beyond
Will the technology democratize access to world-class education or increase inequality? Khan's journey from highly informed skeptic to champion of ethical AI. The HBS graduate and Khan Academy founder explains his nonprofit's pioneering strategy. Also, workforce... View Details
- 20 Jun 2024
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Cengage Group’s Michael Hansen on the employment-ready syllabus
The ed-tech executive on shifting the discussion to emphasize the economic benefits of education, harnessing AI, skills-based hiring, employer-educator collaboration, and the public policy landscape. View Details
- 06 Nov 2024
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Guest Episode: Joseph Fuller on The Gartner Talent Angle
Managing the Future of Work co-chair Joseph Fuller delves into what’s driving and limiting the practice of skills-based hiring. The discussion ranges from degree inflation and HR automation to workforce demographics, skills-based promotion and employee retention. Also,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital to drive social progress. We are pioneering new impact investing approaches, like the Social Impact Bond, to unite uncommon partners around common goals.” Step change: “In eight years,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be performed from... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose
the nonprofit sector. In addition to its lending platform, SITAWI offers philanthropic fund management and has partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to clients. By 2019, SITAWI had View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
effects of organizations allowing employees to “work from anywhere” and why geographic mobility has led to increased innovation. The movement of employees, Choudhury found in one study, promoted tacit knowledge transfer across... View Details
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Amy McGowan
doctorate in genetics. Education allowed him to live the American Dream. The stories of my great-great-grandparents and Dad embody America's greatest strength – access to opportunities to improve one's own life. I am concerned that my country's foundation of... View Details
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Hayling Price
For many fans of classic network television, New Rochelle, New York, will forever be the home of Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) Petrie, television's first upwardly mobile suburban sophisticates. But for Hayling Price,... View Details
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Tips for Working Remotely | Information Technology
protect yourself when using hotel or airport Wi-Fi. Review our Best Practices for Traveling Abroad document, created in conjunction with other higher education institutes. Protect your Mobile Devices Keep the OS and apps on your device... View Details
- October 2009 (Revised March 2011)
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Qualcomm Incorporated 2009
By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth A. Kind
Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, smiled as he reflected on the success of Qualcomm's code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. By the summer of 2009, CDMA was the basis for all third generation technologies available for cellular... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Diversification; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
Yoffie, David B., Andrei Hagiu, and Elizabeth A. Kind. "Qualcomm Incorporated 2009." Harvard Business School Case 710-433, October 2009. (Revised March 2011.)