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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
with me. They wanted some advice on setting up a small business that they were doing. These women were all widows and rape survivors from the war. Their children had been abducted, they had been raped by... View Details
- 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
- 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 2012
- News
Made in the USA
can upgrade local infrastructure and support business growth.” “It was a good outcome for all of us,” Scharfman adds. Although it is a separate venture, these days Scharfman also is excited about the potential of the Fresh Cheese Company,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 2007
- News
Back from the Brink
Enterprise (June 2007) reported in its survey of the “BE Industrial/Service 100.” So ZeroChaos redirected its focus (selling its services to major corporations rather than small businesses), introduced... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
economic effects across geography and industry thanks to the Dun collection’s comprehensive holdings. 2. New York, vol. 216, p. 731, Ibid. Credit reports for women, who were not legally liable for their debts, always made mention of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 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
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details