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- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
of the population lives in rural areas, but the majority of bank branches and jobs are in the cities. To send money home, a city worker had to seal his wages in an envelope and pay a courier to travel for hours to the village.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
milestones. We have expanded into a team of six and will be spending time in Mexico City with our pilot project partners. I am excited to see where the summer will take me and can’t wait to catch up with the other ClimateCAP fellows soon! View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Russell Aikins. 21 Aikins, who had worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times , opened a studio in New York City and took on assignments with Time and Life . Corporations valued press in magazines like Fortune , known for... View Details
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Sebastian Velasco
involved college. "I told my middle-school principal my dream was to go to Harvard. He laughed," Sebastian says. "He said that coming from such a small city in Mexico, it would be impossible. While I was disappointed, it... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online
Business 98% improved their negotiation skills, 84% have more confidence making business decisions, 87% acquired new skills that were immediately applicable — From two 2022 surveys of past participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
sizes, and more water and mid-calorie options.” Cities look for public support If cities want to win public approval for labels, this research suggests it might behoove them to publicize information about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
recognized tattoo-removal program, free to gang members, here at the QueensCare Clinic in East Los Angeles. A six-year veteran of the police force in El Monte, a heavily Hispanic, working-class city of 120,000 at LA’s eastern edge, Timken... View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
the catalyst for me to rethink if that's where I wanted to be long-term. I considered moving away and taking a job in another city but after talking to colleagues who went to business school, I began to understand the value of an MBA and... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
events at historical sites. That Monday is also the date of the Boston Marathon. Pick a spot along the route to cheer on the runners. Explore colleges or graduate schools. Is a young person in your family starting to think about the next steps? Many colleges and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Tech Club
and jointly hosted workshops is quite easy for student clubs around the city to do. We also have a Wednesday night speaker series featuring movers and shakers in tech, a variety of student treks to the Bay Area, New York, and parts of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
access to health care and medicines—need to be done with or without return. Sometimes a certain amount of irrationality is needed. You cannot always be all dollars and cents.” Land of a thousand hills: “Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, is one of the prettiest African View Details
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
along with the steamship and telegraph, also made possible the national distribution of products through an interconnected network of cities and towns. Singer Sewing Machines manufactured in New Jersey, for example, could now be shipped... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
time its parent company announced $100 million in product donations, including 200,000 face masks to New York City hospitals to help keep healthcare workers safe. Given the prevalence of fake news proliferating in social media, consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 19 May 2022
- Blog Post
HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase
awareness in the city of South Bend, and much more. Clients included the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of State, Human Rights Watch, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and more. Learn more about the... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
companies to be sure, but also small- and medium-sized businesses, individual households, and cities and states. And all of these entities (with the exception of US states) can in principle file for bankruptcy protection. But all such... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
held against him the fact that he is an immigrant. Nor was he held back because he is of Jewish origin. When he graduated first in his engineering class at the City College of New York in 1960, he was quoted in The New York Times to the... View Details
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Harvard Business School
assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit Authority, becoming executive officer for surface transit with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
shown that those scrappy, community-based weeklies and monthlies serve a vital role in society, curbing political polarization and boosting civic participation. They also remain an unparalleled check on city and town councils, school... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
editor-in-chief of HBS Working Knowledge. Image: adamkaz Related Reading: Why People Don’t Vote—and How a Good Ground Game Helps Research Paper: Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne