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- 01 Dec 1996
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Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
should be the firm's only motivation if social welfare is to be maximized - provoked a round of spirited discussion centered on the social role and responsibilities of...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Where Innovation Rules
Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to deliver the credits. Learn More...
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- 21 Aug 2019
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Analyzing Homelessness
recently named one of the 50 fastest-growing consulting firms in the US. Using the same evidence-based approach that helps Cicero’s corporate clients develop effective strategies, Shumway looks at “what works and what doesn’t in the...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
this process a unanimous consensus emerged: business schools could no longer hope that their students would recognize the social significance and relations of business once they became managers. The schools themselves were ultimately...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
responsible for a jump in their pay. In fact, the new system had simply cut out the middlemen, who once took what they saw as their rightful piece of the pie. Related Content: Case: Roshan: Light at the End of the Tunnel in Afghanistan...
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Julia Hanna
- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
businesses. Even as a child, she always assumed she would too. She grew up in Osaka, a merchant city, where her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all ran businesses. Even as a child, she always assumed she would too. It was a revelation. Oishi had shepherded...
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- 17 Jun 2010
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The Most Emerging of Emerging Markets
- 15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
corruption and socially responsible behavior influence corporate profitability. He has found that bribery and corruption, while they may boost sales, lead to a loss in profits....
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- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2005
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Better than Cash
Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive director of the...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
of 1 percent of the US population. Fewer and fewer American citizens have any connection to the armed forces. A decade later, that’s still a huge concern for me.” Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) CEO and Cofounder, Social Finance Two...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition
and/or alliance with a pet food supplier—get your kit endorsed. 4) Consider the new B Corporation status, which allows additional tax benefits for socially responsible...
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- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from HBS was to work in the View Details
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Paul Flannery
- 01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service....
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
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Winter Break Just Got Educational
experiences and perhaps even combine them with courses and offer academic credit.” The China Immersion, January 2–13, took sixty-five students to Beijing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Sanya, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, where the group experienced firsthand the economic, political,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Volunteer Program Attracts ’09 MBAs
In response to high interest expressed last spring by graduates of the Class of 2009, HBS Alumni Relations has created a way for new MBAs to participate in key School initiatives and activities: the Young Alumni Ambassadors program. One...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"I wanted to work in international development," says Ballou, whose fellowship through the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise supplemented her summer income. "I also had a wonderful opportunity at the World Bank, but the IRC gave me a...
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