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- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Risher: E-reading the African story “Treasure of the Trees” at the Kade Primary School in Ghana. Courtesy David Risher If you’ve just read Curious George Visits the Library and desperately want to get your hands on Curious George Goes to... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Appalachian Community Capital, a small business lender for underserved communities; and Genevieve Martin, Executive Director of Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation, which works on second-chance employment for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
inequality. We are hoping to engage more and more companies and alumni in bringing the power of the market system to the inner city." Partnering for Success A small number of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
Newman's Own, Inc., lunched with Dean Kim B. Clark, and fielded students' questions at an informal hour-long gathering sponsored by the Social Enterprise Club. The case, written by Initiative on Social View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
with this perspective, of course, and Congress, which makes the laws within which the FCC operates, is trying to overturn the new rules. Congress established the FCC in 1934. Why? Radio was the big broadcast View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
access. —Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998), is the coauthor of Level Up and the CEO of Now, where she helps small businesses grow with the payment system, NowAccount. Stell faces a classic challenge for View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
the car—but with collective action, these small changes could have a big impact, Tiller says. The organization also wants consumers to understand the connection between food and fuel: nearly 50 percent of... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
serves nearly 100 children, employs a staff of 30 caregivers, teachers, and administrators, and runs ancillary services that include a school, tailoring training, a small farm... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs to strip away the differences between startups that grow into multibillion-dollar enterprises and those that disappear altogether. Here, Yeh... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
more product and move to the next level? There are very few places to turn.’ ” The data backed up Kehinde’s experiences: Last year, the International Finance Corporation estimated the credit gap for small... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
survey notes, more than half of HBS alumni launch a business. In this conversation, professors Tom Eisenmann and Bill Kerr discuss HBS’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which empowers students to create an View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Oct 2014
- News
Making a Difference
small – with your business; in your field or your community; among your friends or fellow alumni; or in other ways. For some examples, see below. Please be sure to write LARGE and BOLD letters so your... View Details
Keywords: The Harvard Campaign
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
Minnesota winter returns.” Eduardo Russian (MBA 2018) Hometown: San Diego, California Destination: Camino Financial, Los Angeles (Social Enterprise Initiative Summer Fellow) “A friend who saw similarities between my story View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
thousands of small nonprofits in Pakistan that were doing amazing work on the ground remained undiscovered by mainstream donors. Borrowing from his private equity training, Wasim employed a metrics-driven approach to selecting the best... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
big and so easy to find, it’s almost a miracle they haven’t been breached yet,” says Iram (above, left), a former captain in Israeli military intelligence who established the risk, compliance, and advisory... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
small companies alike now need to be versed not only in running the established enterprise but also in entrepreneurial action, which embraces change and seizes opportunities.... View Details