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- 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
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
everywhere, those in small towns and rural communities must be nimble and have a high tolerance for failure. HBS senior fellow Allen Grossman, who worked with Marietta at PELP,... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
in partnership with HBS Alumni Programs, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the virtual event was held on two... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
San José Mayor Sam Liccardo Henry Tsai and San José Mayor Sam Liccardo That chance had come by way of a fellowship offered through HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
jointly by the HBS Executive Education Program and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the SPNM program offers immersive, multi-faceted learning and the HBS case method... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
2006 Named VP, University of Oklahoma 2009 Named President, Hampden-Sydney College 2010 Coauthors Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business 2016 Named President, Robert Morris University 2017 Appointed to College Football... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
with 1,200 employees. Her HBS education regularly gave her opportunities and helped her overcome challenges, Lambert relates. Early in her career she took over a struggling janitorial firm burdened with “every conceivable problem that a... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises “My first job was starting a small manufacturing unit that made bicycle parts. Then I launched another business for yarn. Once I made a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
president and CEO of COMPS InfoSystems between 1992 and 2000. During his leadership, the small regional print-publishing firm that covered commercial real estate became a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
“At Mobius, we get to play a part in the emergence of a stronger manufacturing base.” As Mobius scales up, the team envisions producing a no-frills platform that can be tailored for cargo delivery, public transportation, or emergency vehicles—giving entrepreneurs View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
that businesses are much more flexible than any of us thought. Early in the crisis, I interviewed a number of executives in HBS’s Owner/President Management program, who run small and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
capitalist with whom Cirne partnered, was the same person who later asked him to step aside as CEO. “That relates to some research I’m doing now that I call ‘Rich vs. King,’ ” says Wasserman. “In making his early decisions about how to run the company, Cirne can be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
encountered some backlash for our efforts, but we also encountered a lot of support,” recalls DeShay, who was ultimately pleased with the town’s willingness to sit down and listen. “That hasn’t always been the case in this country,” he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
global strategy, a new position. More Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
communities are going through, and then see the hope our teams are bringing back in very tangible, small ways to help families on an individual basis on that long path to recovery. You can’t do that View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
$700 in six weeks guessing the weight of fairgoers large and small — earning 25â for each correct guess. Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, jokingly observes that he was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
small percent more is being built brand new). Moreover, the world’s dominant habitation pattern still consists of poor people in emerging nations flocking to urban areas to seek work. Typically, these migrants end up in illegal View Details