Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. strategic hires).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. But they don’t know how to get there.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Finally, even large projects can be broken up into what a banking client of mine calls "human bites." The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

For example, Boston’s program includes job placements at private-sector employers across a wide range of industries, including finance, health care, life sciences, and education.

Short-term 8

Short-term Participative Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

BuildDirect was founded in 1999 by CEO Jeff Booth with his good friend Rob Banks. Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Consider only the complaints aired by a National Institutes of Health workshop, which convened to deal with the problem of why so many findings from animal studies could not be replicated. Where should all this go in our minds?”.

Peer Review 9

Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

To the right, three shiny-suited investment bankers cluster around a banking reform activist in his twenties. This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). The purpose?

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8