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- 14 Oct 2014
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Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships
Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing countries, including supporting View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
international peace and security,” says Jenkins. Their focus is to find the best risk-adjusted returns so that the century-old foundation can exist in perpetuity. Originally known for establishing libraries to further knowledge and understanding, Carnegie Corporation...
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- 08 Oct 2013
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The Green Giant
The old-fashioned assumption of the environmental movement was that business and industry were the problem. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is bullish that they can be part of the solution. A new breed of...
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- 28 Aug 2014
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Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
- 16 Jan 2020
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How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
- 18 Feb 2019
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The quest for affordable childcare is crippling U.S. workers
- 27 Oct 2015
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Pay-For-Success is Working in Utah
- 01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
successful. Ayala has shown strong growth over the past decade despite fluctuations in the Asian economy. Recent initiatives, such as a public-private partnership with the Philippine government to distribute...
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- 19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
unlock partnerships or who can help founders think through problems." The tech MAYA is funding is also fulfilling its transformative mission. Alice, for example, is a Brazilian startup that is upending the...
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Maureen Harmon
- 18 Oct 2023
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Spreading the Words
learning in the United States, they believed Pakistan—with 23 million of its school-age children not in classes and a chronic shortage of teachers—would embrace the new educational approach and that the poorest communities might reap the largest benefits. Teach the...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z
the next 10 years in nonprofit organizations that expand opportunities for underrepresented groups. Any Apollo employee can nominate a nonprofit for foundation funding and form a team to help the organization achieve its social mission;...
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- 09 Apr 2019
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Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
share of society’s resources.” What’s to be done? Dalio suggests a series of reforms, including improved leadership from the top, more public-private partnerships to invest in “double bottom line projects,”...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
spread such efforts, YALP is slowly but surely beginning to see on-the-ground results of the partnerships and innovation it’s designed to foster. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, phrases like income inequality and...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
“Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days,” says Lu, noting that using a single human driver for that route would take more than five days. For TuSimple, successfully alleviating the strain on the labor market requires not just better...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
the challenge. “When Elizabeth shared her experience and her ideas, I basically said, ‘How can I help?’” Klein says. “To me there was such a compelling need.” Many other HBS sectionmates supported the startup with seed funding to launch...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State
Courtesy Howard Cox Courtesy Howard Cox This past fall, 49 employees of the US Department of State logged in to a virtual HBS classroom from all over the world—Honduras, China, Namibia, and Kazakhstan, to name a few—to kick off a first-of-its-kind View Details