Mira Mehta

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Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Harvard was a place where I felt I like I could fit in while embracing the things about my background and my goals that made me different. I still remember sitting in the waiting room before my HBS interview, in... View Details

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Mira Mehta

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Mira Mehta Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results From HBS to Nigerian tomato fields: launching a dream into reality Mira View Details

February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
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Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Risa Kavalercik

In the spring of 2016, Mira Mehta (HBS 2014), faced a difficult decision. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign and winning the second place in the HBS New Venture Competition—Social Enterprise Track, she had moved to Northern Nigeria, where she founded the... View Details

Keywords: Nigeria; Entrepreneurs; Import Substitution; China In Africa; Killer Tomato Paste; Mira Mehta; Tomato Jos; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government Legislation; Business History; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria

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28 May 2019
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Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

Governor of Kaduna State Malam Nasir AHMAD El-Rufai (left) and Mira Mehta (right) meet with Nigerian government officials (photo courtesy of Tomato Jos) Mira View Details

Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Track, 2014 Saathi Amrita Saigal Kristin Kagetsu Social Enterprise Track Winner Provides affordable sanitary pads made from waste banana tree fiber to women in rural India Tomato Jos Mira Mehta Nike Lawrence... View Details

28 May 2019
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Impact: Toward the Greater Good

example, a research study by professors Mike Luca and Deepak Malhotra that examined gun-purchase waiting periods has the potential to reduce gun-related deaths. Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) drew on her MBA... View Details

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Tomato Jos 2014 social enterprise track Runner-Up | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Tomato Jos 2014 social enterprise track Runner-Up Mira Mehta More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR,... View Details

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

been interested in public sector issues a... Tomato Jos 2014 social enterprise track Runner-Up Mira Mehta A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities Jeffrey Shaddix Background Over the summer, I was a Social... View Details

17 Oct 2014
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Making Tomato Paste in Nigeria

Keywords: Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

alumni are pursu... What SEI is Reading and Listening To Margot Dushin 08 Feb 2018 In between our work to educate, support, and inspire leaders across all sectors to tackle society... From HBS to Nigerian tomato fields: launching a dream into reality View Details

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318019 Harvard Business School Case 718-027 Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria In the spring of 2016, Mira Mehta (HBS 2014), faced a difficult decision. Following a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne