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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation....
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- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external impacts on society and the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
one-story former garage on Grand Street in Soho that would be the main home of Deitch Projects for fifteen years. A Photographic Odyssey: Around the World with Alexander W. Dreyfoos by Alexander W. Dreyfoos (MBA 1958) (Cultural Council of...
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- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
by a single mother living in the projects in Cambridge, Harvard seemed untouchable,” she explained. However, years later, Dozie surprised herself by walking into an Aldrich Hall classroom and into a life-changing experience. She had...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
As she explains, “It’s an exciting time to work here and see how these funds can facilitate transformational projects and systems.” RALLYING STUDENTS TO AID SMALL BUSINESSES AND WORKERS Sarika Mendu (MBA...
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Deborah Blagg
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
elsewhere.” Leveraging the HBS alumni network, Rachel secured an internship between her RC and EC years at naviHealth, Inc... a digital health company. This internship allowed her to make an impact at the organization by working on View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
gear up to raise a Series A. “When I spoke with Diego, he shared five problems they were thinking about and gave me the option of what I wanted to work on,” Westphal explained. “The project I chose allowed...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980)...
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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
system in place projected a sure-thing return of 9 percent. The problem that we've seen in the past, and that we see in our current crisis, is the tendency to talk only about return and forget risk. Risk means risk, not just a wink and a...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
coffee beans. Working with CI, we have been successful in helping farmers increase the quality of their coffee. Since we pay more for high-quality coffee, it isn't necessary for farmers to increase the cultivation area and boost...
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- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
American Competitiveness site where resources, commentary, and solutions are showcased. Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project is another must-visit-site to better understand the complex problems facing the US. One good way...
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by Nitin Nohria
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
by a single mother living in the projects in Cambridge, Harvard seemed untouchable,” she explained. However, years later, Dozie surprised herself by walking into an Aldrich Hall classroom and into a life-changing experience. She had...
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Entrepreneurship
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that she also published in the August 2002 Harvard Business Review. For the time-pressure study, Amabile endeavored to “trap creativity in the wild” by surveying employees at seven companies across three industries. She and her researchers identified 22 teams that were...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
maximize the gains and minimize the risks, but all three have been in short supply in Argentina, especially, for decades. Q: What role did the Business History Initiative interviews done with Latin American business leaders for the Creating Emerging Markets View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
to 750 students. The program supplements salaries for MBA students working in entrepreneurial organizations, social enterprises, and other non-traditional sectors. Approximately half of the School’s MBA students currently receive...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
REALLY MATTERS IN THE WORKPLACE IS HELPING EMPLOYEES FEEL APPRECIATED.” Rewards that signal to employees that they did a good job and that their manager cares about them will encourage employees to want to work even harder, the research...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
consumer-based economy? China is a land of engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural...
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Deborah Blagg