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- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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 2018
- News
The Long Run
small town like Calhoun, Langford says. That’s more or less how he and his family came to foster a young child whose parents couldn’t care for her. The girl’s father, jailed on minor drug charges, was known... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... 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
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
Enterprise recently embarked on an endeavor to understand the fast-changing and fertile arena of social capital markets. "The question has become, can we extract bedrock lessons from the for-profit world... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 08 Mar 2016
- News
More Work to Do
to small business owners. In a free-ranging interview with Texas Monthly, Gerald talks about the role that college athletics and early mentors played in his life, including “the old women” who helped hone... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
start in school. They then show how these problems are being met with innovative solutions that can be supported by everyone. WuDunn took time away from her “day job” as managing director at Mid-Market Securities, a small New York... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
jointly by the HBS Executive Education Program and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the SPNM program offers immersive, multi-faceted learning and the HBS case method... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior... View Details
- 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
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Appalachian Community Capital, a small business lender for underserved communities; and Genevieve Martin, Executive Director of Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation, which works on second-chance employment for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
with him. No other medium could do that. What revenue streams derive from Shovio? Using this platform, a company CEO can talk via a secure broadcast to employees, distributors, or salespeople around the globe. Even the mailroom guy can... 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 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
and in-kind services. In 2001, the School established a separate track for social enterprise ventures, and in 2009 the contest opened to first-year students with the... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises “My first job was starting a small manufacturing unit that made bicycle parts. Then I launched another business for yarn. Once I made a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
integrated, with cards made in a facility Lovepop owns in Vietnam, which allows for greater flexibility. The company is doubling its revenues quarter over quarter and reported a $1.4 million run rate in late 2015. After some View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding... View Details