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- 15 Jul 2025
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Bringing Business Insights to Micro-entrepreneurs
Every day, more than one million hawkers and other food and beverage vendors across Southeast Asia use the Grab delivery service to operate their small businesses—and grow them for the future—with a little help from Grab’s new AI Merchant Assistant. Via the company’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
shipping. In addition, algae can grow in salty or brackish water under extremely harsh conditions; so unlike other biofuel feedstocks such as corn and soy, algae don’t need to compete with agricultural crops for fresh water and arable... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the elective course Running and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind (Harvard Business Review Press) How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again?... View Details
- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
an unsatisfactory outpatient experience at a government-run facility, she also received ineffective treatments from an untrained local practitioner. She is feeling increasing physical discomfort, general weakness, and growing alarm about... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based Eos Foundation, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
genius was in how he organized experimentation,” Thomke told a gathering of colleagues during a recent HBS research symposium. “He knew that if you don’t get rapid feedback on new ideas, they often grow cold... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Heifer International, the anti-poverty organization perhaps best known for its livestock donation program. “We can do this by building businesses. We are putting families in commerce. They are not just View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
In addition to the well-established network of HBS clubs in cities all over the world, a fairly recent development is the growing number of associations that have been formed around alumni interests. Over the past few years, two of these... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
with a group of other investment professionals, has $250 million under management and specializes in later-stage invest-ments in companies that could use a boost in capital to grow substantially. “Our operating philosophy is to invest... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
of going to the library and bringing home a stack of books,” recalls Risher. “We didn’t have a lot growing up but that was something we could do.” He wanted the children of Guayaquil to have the same opportunity. Risher’s solution was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
individuals who knew hard times growing up. Weinberg was pure Brooklyn and flaunted the fact that he dropped out of school in junior high. Whitehead’s father lost his job and sold porch furniture door-to-door in New Jersey during the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
1997), she took the initiative and organized a successful event. By creating awareness and encouraging participation through flyers, telephone calls, and e-mails, Kwiker quickly established herself as the driving force behind the HBS Club... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
count. There are many organizations nowadays that know how to count the numbers—but they still have cultures that are not inclusive. In your research, you found that many women in college today don’t see gender inequality as a career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
grow a successful company, observes Deborah A. Farrington (MBA 1976), the founder and cochairman of StarVest Partners in New York City. “We are back to the reality that it takes seven to eight years to build a company prior to going... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
McKinsey & Company. Faith currently serves as the site’s content manager. Last year, sectionmate Melissa Hayes, with MillerCoors, joined as a partner. Darren’s dream is to profitably grow AbilityTrip into a major online community serving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
traditional, fossil fuel–thirsty techniques. Africa can leapfrog Western agricultural methods directly into sustainable, organic farming, which is more suitable for smallholders. —Tre Baker (MBA 2008) via alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin Frank Fan... View Details