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- 25 Oct 2016
- News
Public programs encourage entrepreneurship
- 27 Oct 2016
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Public Programs Encourage Entrepreneurship
- 28 Mar 2014
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Wanted: Public Entrepreneurs
- 08 Jan 2016
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Impact Entrepreneurship
- 24 Apr 2014
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Private capital, public good
US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
“Corruption is a great untapped market,” Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) says with a laugh. “Not many competitors and customer interest is quite high.” It’s a market he’s helping to disrupt using Bantay, an NGO he cofounded while at HBS, that uses technology—specifically... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption
building a database of corruption by having volunteers rate different government services offices, including logging the office conditions and the bribes being demanded for various services. It’s like “a Yelp for government services,” he says. Bantay also educates the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
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Public programs are ‘good economic bets’
- 24 Apr 2014
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An engine of innovation in public education
Drawing upon his background as an entrepreneur and educator, Stig Leschly (MBA 1997/JD 1998) leads Match Education, a reform group that seeks to redefine effective teaching and improve the educational experience of low-income students. It runs four urban View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS faculty on a variety of subjects related to the GLF’s title, “The... View Details
- 19 May 2016
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Creating a Public Greenway in Northern California’s Scenic Wine Country
Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) is a man on the move as founder and chair of the Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition, a 47-mile bike and pedestrian route that will connect the entire region by 2020. “It’s very psychically rewarding. The trail will be there for 100 years,” says... View Details
- 27 May 2015
- News
A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Supporting new art by bringing private funding to public museums and spaces
collective of patrons who work directly with artists to back a variety of projects. Some are major site-specific installations in prominent public spaces, and biennale and museum contexts. Other grants support the entire creative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns
were able to enter a housing lottery and moved to Hong Kong’s first public housing estate when I was two years old. When I was five, I helped my aunt and sister in a factory that made plastic flowers, which was Hong Kong’s main export at... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with their private counterparts, the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance