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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
the game.” As a student at MIT, Kundu took time out to volunteer as a science teacher in rural India. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India, especially—thanks to the success he’s had in his business...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
shortly after his return from a fact-finding trip as an AID consultant assessing anti-Vietcong programs in rural Vietnam. Lodge, whose father was the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam at the time, says this daylong WAC discussion, held in...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
furnishings, Jenrette has been startled to discover connections to his own life. For example, after he bought Millford Plantation, a magnificent, wisteria-draped estate in rural South Carolina, Jenrette discovered that he is distantly...
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Deborah Blagg
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
training methodology is such that it gives the trainees confidence, since they learn, among other things, to stand up in front of peers and seniors and speak, something they have never done,” he notes. One success story is that of Jyotika Parmar, a woman from View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and...
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- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
those attitudes change that dramatically? There wasn't anything else. Ours was the only big campaign out there. Now, interestingly, there were a couple of areas of Georgia where we didn't run any ads. We didn't have enough money. They were hard to get to, some View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
language, it wouldn’t focus on hosting Mountain Dew–fueled, all-night hackathons, she says. “That’s not appealing to everybody. But if you say, ‘Let’s try to find innovative solutions to bringing lights to rural villages,’ and it happens...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,...
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- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into disadvantage, among other issues. No doubt, Cash’s lyrics and life...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
schedule. Massive testing is considered to be a cornerstone of the national COVID-19 response strategy.” Jaime I. Ayala (MBA 1988) Founder and CEO, Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI): “In the war against COVID-19 in rural areas of the...
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Margie Kelley
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in Ohio, and nursing homes housing...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
species. My Name Is Melvin: The Life of an Extraordinary Ordinary Man by John A. Ehlert (OPM 23, 1996) (Telemachus Press LLC) In this biography of his father, Ehlert tells how Melvin was born in hardscrabble rural Minnesota and spent his...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
operators exist in the countries where Roshan is staking its claim. But it will focus in part on the rural areas that have the lowest service penetration and the fewest social services, a strategy that fits well with the company’s dual...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa....
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
asked everyone to envision a rural landscape painting with a river running through it. “On one side is an arid, compromised crop that won’t come to harvest. On the other is a rich jungle of exotic plants with names like Twitter,...
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