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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
original investors. (It is now Latin America’s largest microfinance institution, serving 2.6 million clients.) Chu—then head of microfinance organization Accion International—was part of the group that founded the bank, and Rodríguez was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
interested in what they were doing and wanted to stay in touch. In subsequent conversations in the spring of 2010, the Secklers told Williams about HT-100. Williams went to work, offering the venture capital group that held the compound a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
indicates that the number of Latinx businesses getting started is astounding,” says Perez. He adds that, according to the report, the Latinx community is among the most entrepreneurial segments of the US population, starting more businesses per capita than any other... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
group observed the massive scale of its operations and gained an appreciation for these commercial hubs as bellwethers of the global economy. Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge The lack of traffic on the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge... View Details
- 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash
hours per paycheck. The time saved could be spent in the classroom. The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for responsible digital payments and provides guidance to governments, corporations, and international organizations in their transition efforts. It also helps... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
their time when contracting out their skills than when permanently employed. "This group clearly chose contracting as a way of working. This is not work of last resort," Bradach notes. The arrangement, he says, may give rise to a new... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
has developed for the course so far - "Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy" and "The Haier Group" - take place in Thailand and China, respectively. Named Asia's most ethical company several years ago in a survey of the region's executives by Asian Business... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group of students,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
confidence for entrepreneurs, a group that had sometimes been considered quirky or marginal. These individuals reported to be more satisfied, wealthy, and energized by their jobs than their classmates who worked for others - and no more... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Steve Kirschner (MBA 1986), Bill Nussey (MBA 1996), & John Yates (event host) Nussey presenting to HBS alumni Nussey and Kirschner The HBS Club of Atlanta’s Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group (eSIG) honored clean-energy entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
they found not only a network of support and resources, but also many classmates with their own family’s challenges with food allergies. The group includes Ron Laufer (MBA 2000),who conducted scientific research and advised EAT on health... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
algorithms,” says Polli. “Which means [the algorithms] will recommend an equal number of men and women and a group that is proportional across ethnicity.” This is something, she notes, that an algorithm can just do better. “We like to say... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
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MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
seven sections of eighty students entering in September and four sections entering in January (the "January cohort") - has been highly successful. Having students enter HBS twice a year and in smaller groups has helped the program... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains by Dennis M. Powers (MBA ’69) (Amacom) Powers tells the story of a group of 19th- and 20th-century men known as “wreckers,” who earned their living by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
column was a way to explore the link between a business leader’s workspace and the culture of his or her organization. Along the way, Raje—former chief executive of BP Ergo, her family’s office furniture business—featured the hotel suite-office of the late founder and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
the Price Today!” In the second, the sign showed a group of hands on top of one another in a circle and the message read, “Because We’re Partners, It’s Your Turn to Set the Price Today!” The former was our exchange norm condition and the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
launched programs to sell MedKaz to each prospective market segment—to consumers and groups with specific healthcare needs, to corporations that can offer MedKaz as an employee wellness benefit, and to such government entities as the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
to observe that at one time he had told his study group that he intended to live in Australia and, as a consultant, travel the world while learning about different business models. Instead, Brown said, “I'm going back to my hometown of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
she picked up customer expertise at P&G and later at Disney, where she ran the Consumer Products Division. As a VP at Bain & Company, she gained industry experience that she later applied as head of the Children’s Group at Stride Rite and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Beacon of Liberty
9/11. We see the sad irony of the Anti-Defamation League (a group formed to “secure justice and fair treatment to all”) opposing the Islamic center and mosque proposed near the former World Trade Center site. Anti-Muslim sentiments have... View Details