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- 19 Jul 2013
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All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Personal crises inform a life’s work
and patient empowerment, the organization created the first comprehensive, disease-specific cancer site on the Web, and informed millions though innovative corporate partnerships. Another life-changing event prompted Langer to focus her...
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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 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 2009
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Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate...
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- 14 Oct 2014
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Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
of the Newport, Rhode Island–based organization. “It’s like living in two different worlds. I run a nonprofit, but I apply all for-profit principles to it. Consequently, we achieve great outcomes with very low cost, per participant,” he says. The sailing organization,...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference
of the highly educated, Wallace says the move has boosted the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and turned into a competitive advantage. Ovia is among a handful of companies that are rethinking their screening process, for reasons that range from...
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- 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 Jun 2005
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Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
300 miles of coastline scoured nearly clean of villages and farms, the province became the focal point for a massive international relief effort. Typical of crisis response efforts, relief agencies joined with the Indonesian government to...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Faculty Books
cooperation plays in social life. Professor Bazerman and colleagues discuss their work in social judgment, decision-making, and ethics. Managing Crises: Responses to...
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- 30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas
management when Callahan became CEO. He left Goldman Sachs, confident “there was something more that I needed to accomplish that couldn’t be done inside a concrete building.” Today, he operates Sail to Prevail with two full-time and 11 part-time staff. The program is...
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Jill Radsken
- 11 Aug 2022
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Why Companies Aren't Living Up to Their Climate Pledges
- 07 Feb 2018
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Helping Startups Give Back
“If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the...
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- 06 May 2014
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When Girl Meets Oil
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
depth of knowledge and insight that will prove invaluable for trustees, donors, and others related to and responsible for the success of social enterprise. Social enterprise...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers
dedicated to creating and advancing solutions to the core issues driving climate change Matthew Commons (MBA 2007) FloDesign Wind Turbine Corporation Waltham and Wilbraham, Massachusetts Wind turbine manufacturer Patricia A. Connolly (MBA...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the concept and rise of View Details
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Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton;
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools;
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Faculty Books
resources? In this book, Professor Vietor, his coeditors, and other leading scholars in law, economics, and business consider questions of corporate social responsibility in...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.
All these competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the 21st century’s core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. In an age...
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