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- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance learning. Offensend is focused on... View Details
- 22 Jul 2024
- News
Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
But also to find companies that we believe can be self-sustainable and also successful businesses, and ultimately scale what they are doing, and the transformation and innovation that they are delivering, to a very large number of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
challenges and opportunities when starting out, scaling up, hedging one’s bets, and taking stock at the end. With dozens of personal stories, hands-on checklists, and questions to guide decision-making, this book shows how the real-estate... View Details
- 18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Ready, Set, Launch
learning-bydoing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. Topics include problem and solution finding, business model design and validation, marketing and sales, and seed finance. “Lean start-ups don’t try to View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is testing that theory at View Details
- 24 Mar 2016
- News
A Fitness Industry Innovator Powers On
rebranding the club, and those that followed, as 24 Hour Fitness—would alter the industry forever, with 24 Hour Fitness growing to 420 clubs, 20,000 employees, and over $1 billion in annual revenues. “In the fitness industry, there are very major economies of View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
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PayPal Names Blake Jorgensen as CFO
Electronic Arts.” As for his new role, PayPal’s CEO Dan Schulman noted during a recent earnings call that the company is “looking for additional ways to improve efficiency and productivity, which could include scaling back on real estate... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect
The creation, commercialization, and scaling of science-based enterprises will be a crucial segment of the global economy in the decades to come. Harvard Business School—through its educational programs, the research of its faculty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense; shift performance risk away from government to private... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
happiest part of my day is normally in the evening when [I] sit down with my wife as we account for our day’s earnings from our different sources of income.” Since GiveDirectly launched, cash payments have become a growing, though still small part of the development... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
environmental value simultaneously through its activities," Keshavjee explains. "It is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling up its activities." HCA, in partnership with a number of local NGOs and... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
it a reality, and the plants and factories to scale it. OCO’s bread and butter is a processing device called an electrolyzer, which combines electricity and CO2 and splits water to make formic acid. That formic acid can then be sold to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them rather than anything inherent in their scale. In... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
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Alumnae-founded Fintech Startup Secures $29M in New Financing
with this new capital, we'll be able to continue to scale and serve our existing clients as they grow exponentially.” Asked about the confidence of the small business community in the economic recovery, Hodgson expressed optimism. “(T)his... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
to scale up without massive subsidies, as it is owner-driven and bottom-up,” says Mehra, who founded mHS with her husband, architect Marco Ferrario. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts
Preliminary placement figures (as of August 1997)* Total September Cohort January Cohort Average satisfaction with job offer (on a scale of 1-low to 7-high) 6.1 6.1 6.1 Average number of companies contacted 20 19 21 Average number of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact
The nonprofit need of for-profit acumen is acute, says Jeff Bradach (AM 1990, PhDOB 1992), cofounder and managing partner of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit advisor and resource for mission-driven organizations and philanthropists. Bridgespan collaborates with... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
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A Clean Start
ultimately lies not on the R&D or the tech itself, but rather in the scale of the business. “Unlike most of the chemical or energy industry, where you have to build mammoth plants in order to be economically viable, we want to become... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon