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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
causing social enterprises to emulate business methods. At the same time, the social, business, and government sectors are converging to solve social problems. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector (ESS) looks at the exciting... View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
difficulty many American students have solving problems independently. “If you give [American] kids a math problem and tell them how to solve... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
increasing the overall profitability of the concession. "I like to fix things," Richardson reflects. "I'm attracted to unstructured environments where I can solve problems and create systems that help... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Connecticut. So it's how do you manage this process. And you're like a CEO. You can't micromanage every part of the process, because there are a lot of things that are out of my control. So it's how do you set a vision? How do you hire the right team and empower them?... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
relative handful of African Americans and women on campus daily confronted cultural problems that could not be solved with a slide rule and pencil. READ MORE Steve Belkin Eve Benton Mike Feeley Ed Mathias... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
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Thinking globally about business challenges and people's lives
Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) is a serial entrepreneur who applies an engineering mindset to solving problems for companies and coaching people through career and life changes. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
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Howard Stevenson Faculty
HBS Professor, Emeritus Howard Stevenson (MBA 1965, DBA 1969) talks about his involvement in helping solve complex social problems in health, the environment, and the news media. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Fresh Approach to Urban Farming
solving a critical need in Singapore. “HBS was centered on leadership and making a difference around a problem that you really cared about, and for me that problem was food... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Life-Saving Network
give and receive from others who, like them, have signed on to a larger computerized network that matches willing donors and recipients. Said Roth, “There are 70,000 people waiting for a kidney. I don’t think it solves the whole problem,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
loans and access to payments. Probably in my children's day, [it] will be something different. I never really sought out to be an entrepreneur, to be honest. I just sought out to solve an access problem that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
the number of participants needed, and what incentives to provide. In most instances, he recommends that “an organization’s internal problem solvers should define the parameters of a challenge rather than attempt to View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
A Change of Life
about solving problems.” But now, he said, his wife reminds him that “helping children read, that's solving a problem and winning, too.” Is Waldron's move, the Times wondered,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
to invest outside the core market, because there is less noise, great founders are sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to a broader population base.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
video, Wu talks about what inspired her decision to focus her career on making a difference in education. “I realized a few years ago, because of a friend who asked me what problem in the world was something I felt compelled to solve,... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria
business has served as an important engine of prosperity. But the progress that has been realized highlights yet further the divide between poor and wealthy, the gaps in access to quality health care, and the effects of climate change, to name a few. These are View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
accelerate discoveries. “We built an organization we would want to invest in ourselves,” observes Greg. “We need to broaden the net and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergies and across disease states to View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market principles to solving social View Details