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19 Jan 2024
Making A Difference

Blockchain for Good

Stella Dyer is using blockchain to build a new kind of financial network for the unbanked

Re: Stella Dyer (MBA 1994)

13 Dec 2022
The First Five Years

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

Christine Keung and Reggie Smith (both MBA 2020) on helping the people of West Virginia, why collaborating across differences is more important than ever, and what TOM principles have to do with dumpling-making

Re: Christine Keung (MBA 2020); Reginald Smith (MBA 2020); Alicia Dadlani (MBA 2003)

17 Nov 2022
HBS Alumni News

Blockchain for Good

Stella Dyer is using blockchain to build a new kind of financial network for the unbanked

Re: Stella Dyer (MBA 1994); By: Ralph Ranalli

23 Jun 2020
Business Day

Bridging Nigeria's Infrastructure Gap

Fund invests in grid, future economic growth

Re: Tariye Gbadegesin (MBA 2006)

17 Mar 2020
Making A Difference

A Bid for the Future

How Stephen Moret built a transformational economic development plan for the future of Northern Virginia—and got Amazon to buy in

Re: Stephen Moret (MBA 2001)

01 Dec 2019
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Bridging the Gap

How can business, civic, and nonprofit leaders work together to bring shared prosperity to America’s communities? The HBS Young American Leaders Program is jump-starting that conversation—and inspiring collaborative innovation in cities across the US

Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter (Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration); Mitchell B. Weiss (Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice Chair, MBA Required Curriculum); Karen Mills (Senior Fellow); Jan W. Rivkin (C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration); By: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden

23 Oct 2019
HBS Alumni News

A Bid for the Future

How Stephen Moret built a transformational economic development plan for the future of Northern Virginia—and got Amazon to buy in

Re: Stephen Moret (MBA 2001); Sean Brazier (MBA 2013); Matt Kelly (MBA 2004)

16 Jun 2019
Washingtonian

The Real Story of How Virginia Won Amazon’s HQ2

Re: Stephen Moret (MBA 2001)

01 Jun 2019
HBS Alumni Bulletin

There’s no silver bullet for economic recovery in Appalachia. It’s going to take a whole new ecosystem—which is just what Geoff Marietta has built

Re: Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007); By: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

15 Apr 2017
Skydeck

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

With 25 years of experience in private sector development, David Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition to a market economy

Re: Dave Brunell (MBA 1962)

16 Mar 2017
Ozy.com

The CEO Who's Turning the Global Development Movement on Its Head

Re: Gina Lagomarsino (MBA 2000)

01 Dec 2014
HBS Alumni Bulletin

These Walls Can Talk

Kelly Liang (MBA 2000) and the burgeoning smart home industry

Re: Kelly Liang (MBA 2000); By: April White

04 Jun 2014
Harvard Business Review

The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next

Re: Scott Anthony (MBA 2001)

01 Mar 2014
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Book Review: The Old West

Re: Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993); Bob McKersie (MBA 1956); Michael Ferrara (PMD 39); Phyl Terry (MBA 1998); Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964); Ron Brown (MBA 1973); By: Maureen Harmon

14 Jan 2014
HBS Alumni News

Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

To boost the economies of rural America, Jack Schultz (MBA 1976) launched a program to develop high school business leaders.

Re: Jack Schultz (MBA 1976); Howard H. Stevenson (Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus)