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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
charity work. For businesspeople already working to tackle food insecurity and promote healthy, sustainable food, COVID-19 is a double-edged sword: a disruption of their current efforts and a potential opportunity to help with urgent...
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- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
encouraged, but neither activity engages the unique skills and capabilities of business. Consider the typical corporate volunteer program. It almost invariably draws on the lowest common skills in a company by mobilizing people to do physical View Details
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 03 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths
fellowship allows students to contribute in the social enterprise space and receive a supplement to their salaries. In just a few weeks, our 2014 Summer Fellows will be around the world, with over 70 Fellows in 18 countries working on...
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- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice
year on the road, I returned to the United States to join Teach for America, where I worked as a high school Social Studies teacher in Birmingham, AL for two years. After starting a nonprofit group while in my teaching role, I was...
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- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
commitment to social impact. He also wanted to know what motivated it, as well of its ultimate impact. In March 2016, Stevenson and a team of researchers launched a project to better understand and communicate that impact. To date, the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more...
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- 13 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Ask A Coach: How Do I Find a Mentor?
brings value." Start by looking to people who already know you, who have worked with you on a project or been in a meeting with you. These people have an idea of what you are capable of doing. If there...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development. Capitalism at Risk is published by Harvard Business Review Press. Bower and Paine discussed key themes and business examples in our email Q&A. Martha Lagace: What was the genesis of this View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been under-researched. View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Tools | New Venture Competition
Entrepreneurship Project HBS Working Knowledge Social Enterprise Club Social Enterprise Conference Social Enterprise Initiative Questions? Contact the Social Enterprise Initiative. se@hbs.edu
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
prepare to enter other careers where their roles will be more advisory than operational. Often with only limited work experience as analysts or, in most cases, no background whatsoever, these students face a daunting set of challenges....
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose...
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Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
capital, project management expertise and domain knowledge of corporations to work on financing and de-risking the various solutions for climate change. 2. Rather than companies acting individually, we need...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A...
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Jennifer Gillespie
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Alex Nelson
solve complex problems and meet people's needs — I could do more effectively as a business person." Finding meaningful roles After just over two and a half years with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where Alex worked on a variety of...
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Monne Williams
At Duke, Monne Williams wasn't satisfied with playing rugby or even working in the athletics office on sponsorships and corporate relations. Curiosity led to questions: "Who do companies sponsor? What's the benefit? What's the return...
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- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
prize-based saving in the credit union industry through a program known as Save to Win. “I grew up in Missouri, the ‘Show Me State,’ so all of these projects tapped into my desire to get out and implement something tangible,” he explains....
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- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
growing portfolio of investments across Asia, Africa, and Latin America with employees around the world. So while the team at Actis was no stranger to having staff working in various locations, the 10 week Summer Associate Programme had...
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
explains. “Rather than abandon U.S. manufacturing, my thinking was that once we had established a capability in China, we could then reinvest back in the United States and reinvent ourselves as a global player.” Working with a Chinese OPM...
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