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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
career to date exploring the applicability of corporate models to the health-care field as well as other community-based needs. Barrett has kept Kanter's basic approach to the course, which, she says, "is to help students understand how...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung...
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- 22 Apr 2021
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Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Alumni Association of Boston (HBSAB). Each virtual panel discussion features several leaders from nonprofit organizations who are taking on big social problems, innovating solutions and having significant impact. “Our goal is to educate,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
museum’s “incredibly supportive and creative building committee.” Working with skilled professionals from a wide range of disciplines is something Houston did often in her experience at New York City’s Lincoln Center, first as an HBS View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic. The program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social...
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- 27 Oct 2020
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HBS Votes
detailed 17 different ways that companies can help American vote safely. David Gilmour (MBA 1984), Business for America’s Director of Corporate Civic Responsibility (and Managing Director of Blyth Capital...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
began to change in 2009, when a community activist challenged Shumway to get more deeply involved in addressing the issue. He responded by applying the same evidence-based problem-solving approach Cicero uses with its corporate clients...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
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How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix...
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- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
part of that evolution—as the cofounder of a professional services firm, an investor, a developer, and a corporate board member. “The challenge and the opportunity is to work to ensure all Pittsburghers benefit from this transition,” he...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a...
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Books
create wealth and produce superior products and services. They must also conduct themselves as “moral actors” — responsible agents that bring moral judgment to bear on their activities. This development defies centuries of View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account
before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan
performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
help with these problems. Somehow this bridge has to be built,” says Goodwin, who until earlier this month was CEO of Executives Without Borders (ExecWB), a sort of facilitator for corporate social...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Henderson says that we have failed to reenvision capitalism. It must be not only an engine of prosperity, she offers, but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities, striving for View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
capital in the world. It's time we had some kind of a health-care/SEC equivalent. There are some encouraging trends in the private sector. For example, Sears Holdings Corporation and Darden Restaurants are now giving employees cash...
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