Filter Results:
(797)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (797)
- Faculty Publications (84)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (797)
- Faculty Publications (84)
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
improve health in their communities. The business case for investing in community health is compelling, especially for companies that depend on communities for workers and customers. Sick and absent workers cost American firms some $225 billion annually. Now a study... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
can be done,” says Palepu, who explains that the service is unique in India. “EMRI is actually helping everyone — rich and poor. It’s offering a solution. It really resonates with everybody.” Raju’s initial investment in launching EMRI in 2005 came to some $12 million... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
provide maple syrup to local school breakfast programs. Lots of kids in rural places, and certainly in rural Vermont, are coming to school without having had an adequate start to the day. It's been a wonderful gift to be able to produce... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
group toured the PSA Singapore terminal, the world’s largest container transhipment hub. The immersion culminated in a symposium in Singapore attended by local alumni and other business leaders. Several faculty members discussed their... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Reunited and It Feels So Good
also hosted individualized panels, led by faculty and classmates, on topics such as entrepreneurship, balancing work and family, and making lifestyle and career changes. Dinner cruises, gala events, and tours of local sites, all taking... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Struggles, Medtronic, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Shell, and Sun Microsystems. A portion of the conference proceeds will benefit HBS community initiatives such as the campaign to fund a chair honoring H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33) and the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
obstacles tilt the playing field between local firms and multinational firms. In a series of papers, [HBS associate professor] C. Fritz Foley, [University of Michigan professor] James R. Hines Jr., and I have shown that distorted... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
poverty, education, and infant mortality rates, the ARC and the word salad of state and local agencies that it funds have failed to redress the enduring social and economic problems faced by communities like... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust helps to negotiate land transactions between landowners and public entities or groups hoping to preserve it. It also focuses on conservation funding and finance, conducts the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu Lakes region of Nepal for the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
handful more in other locations over the following two years, totaling $100 million in impact investments. Social Finance will work with state and local governments to structure and monitor the funded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the local community. For the first time, students from different academic disciplines across the University will have access to shared space to work on new ventures, guidance from HBS’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
years. As an endorsement of this international focus, Jafar has established a fund to support the MENA Research Center in Istanbul, its Dubai Research Office, and other HBS activities throughout the region. The expansion of HBS’s global... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
services, all of which are offered tuition free. Liu, now the president and COO of The Primary School, came to the project as an educator; Chan came to it as a pediatrician. Together, they developed three guiding principles, which Liu says sets the school, which is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
director Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), so the celebration commemorates not the conception but rather the execution. It's fitting: The organization matches local nonprofits with volunteer HBS alumni who help the groups build strategies to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb,... View Details
- Profile
Evelyne White
Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
destination end up being so much less attractive despite the relative absence of this usual litany of investment obstacles? Part of the answer may lie precisely in how these obstacles tilt the playing field between local firms and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
The Business Plan Contest’s popularity is just one indicator of a surge in entrepreneurial activity at HBS, which this year saw the launch of a $50,000 MVP Fund to support students using the “Lean Startup” approach to develop and test a... View Details
Keywords: Contests