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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
business models to invest in.” In their early days, both Elevar and IGNIA got funding from the Omidyar Network, one of the earliest players in the movement. Matt Bannick, who left his role as president of eBay View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
capitalist by day. I teach entrepreneurship with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. I often ask my students where they think the root of venture capital is. They'll often tell me they think it's Silicon Valley. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
officers. Participants will receive an update on the latest developments at HBS, have a chance to meet with Dean Kim B. Clark, and share best practices with colleagues representing domestic and international clubs. Online Services for... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
DeBere, who worked previously in international development in Nairobi, Kenya, and consulting in his native London, incubated the idea for Afya Pamoja—which means “health together” in Swahili—at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
later revealed to be 3 million viewers in just one year. Ruggiero, four-time women’s hockey Olympian and gold medalist, was on the board of the US Olympic Committee and a member of the International Olympic Committee, where she was... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual revenue collections... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
cofounded and implemented — at a December event at HBS at which she introduced the ALI’s first cohort of fourteen fellows. Ranging from a former U.S. astronaut and a former Venezuelan health minister to a former IBM international... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
where I am now," he says. And each helped him create a model for the kind of business he ultimately wanted to run. In the middle of the last decade, Harris submitted a detailed list of parameters for his ideal business to his network of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
has revamped more than just the design, says Yong, a former Bain consultant and Acumen Global Fellow who joined the automaker in 2016. “We have also rethought the conventional automotive business model itself,” with specific decisions in... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
ticketing, the airline maintains a relatively young fleet of Boeing 737s — and no other models — to save money, increase reliability, and boost efficiencies since pilots and crews need only focus on the requirements of a single type of... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
30-minute credit test is based on research in psychometrics conducted at Harvard’s Center for International Development to help lenders understand both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. The questions on the test seek not... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
the conversation for me, and I think our failure is that we haven’t found a business model or a way of hearing them more. RA: Make the center cool and sexy again! I think the challenge that we have is to think about the different kinds of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
there: ransomware, the security of our electric grid, and international espionage, for example. Young has worked in the field from his early-career startup days through posts at AOL, Cisco, and Intel, where he led the 2017 initiative to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new model in mind: slums as lucrative... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
DM: And sometimes, those new ideas use existing models from other industries. JM: Many of the obvious techniques for storage is to actually use old reservoirs from the oil and gas activity, whether it's offshore or onshore. We have these... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting those with debilitating chronic illnesses and the dependent elderly.” —Professor Lynda Applegate, on Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande Excerpt... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
NFTE program for India, dubbing it I Create. Aruna interviewed dozens of Indian entrepreneurs, seeking role models for Indian youth, and used 12 of their stories to write the book Everyday Entrepreneurs: The Harbingers of Prosperity and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers