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12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments

research on impact investing The Acumen Fund’s Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) on how to grow impact investing Moving the Needle (Fran Seegul, MBA 1998) Making A Difference: Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA 1995) Maya Chorengel (MBA 1997) Lisa... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

small doses? Observability: Can you watch other people use it? All of those things are inherent in the product itself. Rogers’s research found that 75 percent of the variance between products that succeed and products that don’t succeed... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

straightjacket, even basic initiatives struggled to get traction. In an effort to boost tourism—a major contributor to the country’s economy—Samaras introduced a law that would allow hotels to shuttle passengers to and from the airport,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

the world still relies on is wildly inefficient at producing protein. “It basically takes nine calories of energy or input to get one calorie out,” says Ive. “Whereas if you’re producing a plant-based material, it’s closer to one-to-one.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

bit of battery recharge time, I’m going to have to find the space to do that and to use this tool, to use this technique in order to find that space. JH: You know, there’s been a lot of research and sort of public discussion about the... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

executive director of the Verité Research think tank, describing how Mawilmada initiated a public forum, hosted by Verité, to respond to an opposing viewpoint on the megapolis plan. “These two factions weren’t talking to each other, but... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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