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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
wrote in third grade about wanting to make a machine that would do all my homework,” recalls Mountz, the affable founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based company that is revolutionizing the way e-commerce retailers such as... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta reached out to the student-run Africa Business Club for advice. She also participated in the School’s New Venture Competition. In 2014, Tomato Jos won $25,000 as runner-up in the Social Enterprise category, giving Mehta the money... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
security) so that it can become a globally accepted medium of exchange? —Joseph DiSorbo (OPM 41, 2011) So far the ecosystem has been working on creating the basic infrastructure for bitcoin to operate: exchanges allowing people to buy... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
if necessary, of the blog’s subjects and a note about how long it has been going. This list probably represents only a very small fraction of the alumni blogs that are out there, so please send us Web... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
small administrative team, and a network of experts have focused on 15 candidates for consideration in the first round of funding. The nonprofit expects to award grants to three to five organizations when it... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
performance. While Klemmer delights in the anecdotal evidence, he cautions that the sample is too small to claim measurable student improvement. But he is thinking big. "Look at World War II. We had 150,000 trained military personnel in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
solutions, he has aggressively implemented the notion that customers, through their implicit choices or explicit actions (what Cook calls a “user contribution system”), and his brainstorming employees (in View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Look for a social niche to fill. The heart of starting a social enterprise is to answer the question of where it will fit in. Align your project with an existing organization as a new department. Your chances of success are greater under... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
managing partner of Ironwood Capital Partners; Ajmal Ahmady (MBA 2007), senior adviser on banking and finance to the President of Afghanistan; and Tariq Qureishy (GMP 3, 1998), CEO, futurist, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away... 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 Mar 2013
- News
Celebrating Women at HBS
focusing on "Success Redefined." Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, and Melanie Healey of Procter & Gamble were among the... 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
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Download Sunil B. Mittal profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, Ludhiana, Punjab, India 1976 Earns BA, Economics and Political Science, Panjab University 1976 Founds Bharti View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
attempt at starting his own company. Because venture capitalists were unwilling to fund travel businesses in the wake of the 1973 fuel crisis, Belkin financed his startup with an American Express card and View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
the existing target markets. Great enterprise selling happens at the intersection of true customer pain and a credible solution. Play to win the game! —Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) is a managing partner of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
director, and started small by simply updating the museum’s English-language entry on Wikipedia. That led to conducting strategy, management, and proposal-writing workshops... View Details