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- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
pre-MBA aspirations. In the classic division of MBAs into two camps, poets and quants, Kuhns falls solidly into the former. After earning an MFA in sculpture and drawing at the University of Chicago, he served as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the university’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
Sachin H. Jain (MBA ’07, MD ’08,) is a special assistant to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Obama administration. He was previously a resident physician at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
faculty will be in residence for periods of up to one year, developing affiliations with other faculty in the region and working on collaborative projects. The Hong Kong office will be a place where workshops and activities will give... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
to her next endeavor. "My interest in business goes beyond the P&L or the product," says Quin, who intends to split her time between her current residence and her native New Zealand. "I would love to figure out a way to use my skills... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Former i-lab resident LovePop—founded by Wombi Rose (MBA 2015) and John Wise (MBA 2015)—had an atypical appearance on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank: By the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
on supplying 580 multifamily affordable-housing units for low- and moderate-income residents of Boston. But finding a factory site in the city proved impossible, and the deal died. Searches in Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
figure out how to find care for my family.” That contradiction was not lost on the budding entrepreneur. Marcelo’s family emergency shed light on a market need that she wanted to fill. After a stint at TheLadders, she accepted a position as an entrepreneur in View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
first identified eligible recipients using data such as a home’s roofing material to measure need. In many Kenyan communities, permeable, hard-to-maintain thatched roofs distinguish the poorest residents from better-off neighbors with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
RATAN TATA: With HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and Harvard President Drew Faust, presenting the School with a historic, forward-looking gift. Related Links News Release Entrepreneurs in Residence Global CEO Program for China Ratan Tata (AMP 71,... View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
means embracing the local community. Among its early efforts to involve the community, the Royal Commission has funded a thousand scholarships for residents pursuing study in areas such as archeology and water management. It also has... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
him an early awareness of the stark economic discrepancies between residents living in luxury high-rises just a few hundred feet from those surviving in slums. “The statistical unlikelihood of my parents meeting, along with those visits... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Horn of Africa.) “Kenya” adorns bags of single-origin beans shipped around the world, but that country’s residents drink less than 1 percent as much coffee per capita as world-leading Finland’s, according to statistics collected by the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Medicine made personal
Entrepreneurship Club, Goyal has created the start-up Foresight Pharmaceuticals. Goyal and Levy secured a residency at the Harvard Innovation Lab and have pitched Foresight to HBS Business Angels, an alumni investment group. Through HBS,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
accessible for future generations,” he says. For Coady, a DC resident who traces his interest in environmental protection to childhood summers spent exploring the wilderness of Upper Michigan, the Crow’s Nest preserve is the most personal... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
resident healers. A board member at Blue Deer for 10 years, Sprinkles offers healing sessions, hosts monthly fires, and heads up an initiation program for young men. “I’m 67, and one of the ways I connect with the culture that raised me... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
to do ours as a favor and at a price we could afford.” What comes next: “We have our system up and running and are working on making it more robust so it can scale. We were invited to work as entrepreneurs in residence at Highland Capital... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
used to reside only with the retailers. There was an information asymmetry that created a power dynamic in retail, but that is gone. Consumers have stormed the castle, and the hard work for many companies is going to be shifting from the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
ClimaCell is pushing to get this information into the hands of residents through its data partners and its mobile apps in the hopes of serving much of the developing world. Elkabetz adds that among ClimaCell’s plans for the future is... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov