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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Alvarez, Jose B.; Mehta, SarahCaso HBS-518034-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasIt is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact and reach of some of the IITA's most commercially viable products and technologies by working with the private sector, and 2) to address Nigeria's massive youth unemployment problem...Desde 8,20 €
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TraceTogether
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCaso HBS-820111-EEconomíaBy April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore's Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and Ministry of Health (MOH) all of eight weeks to develop the world's first nationwide deployment of a Bluetooth-based contact tracing system, Tra...Desde 8,20 €
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The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin Lindsay; Mehta, SarahCaso HBS-318041-EFinanzasIt is March 2017 and TPG, a global alternative investment firm with $74 billion assets under management, has recently launched its inaugural impact investing fund-the $2 billion Rise Fund. In an effort to "take the religion out of impact investing," Mike Stone, CIO of Rise, has partnered with Chris Addy at The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investm...Desde 8,20 €
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Hacking Heroin
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCaso HBS-818010-EIniciativa emprendedora"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said. "Bright spots and positive momentum matter when it comes to directing the energy that exists in Cincinnati toward addressing the epidemic." Now though, days before Hacking Heroin in June...Desde 8,20 €
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Community-First Public Safety
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCaso HBS-821005-EEconomíaHow many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short for 2021. Advocates across the country (and nearby) had pointed to a likely pool for budget cuts: police departments. The May 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in neighbor...Desde 8,20 €