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- September 2022
- Case
Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues
By: Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
This case provides brief descriptions of 18 examples of corporate leaders confronting questions of whether and how to engage with societal issues, including social, political, and environmental issues. Social issues include COVID-19; social and racial justice;... View Details
Keywords: Political Issues; Social Justice; Racial Justice; Environmental Issues; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Values and Beliefs
Joly, Hubert, and Amram Migdal. "Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues." Harvard Business School Case 523-045, September 2022.
- Fast Answer
Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War
Two-State Solution (video) From July 2023 - A discussion on Palestinians' future in a one-state reality, featuring Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and analyst, Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, director of the U.S. Institute of... View Details
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Soltan Bryce
The evolution of Soltan Bryce’s early career path – health care and agriculture – have their roots in his experiences as a Palestinian refugee in rural North Carolina. “The first health care we received in the United States was from the... View Details
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Our Values | About
around the world, examples of antisemitic hate speech, graffiti, vandalism, riots, and fire bombings, as well as violence such as the stabbing of a young Palestinian boy and his mother in Chicago, have only heightened this fear. Other... View Details
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Shira Asa-El
became close friends. What’s the best thing about your home town? Jerusalem is an amazingly beautiful city – not only for its fascinating history and its religious importance, but because of how incredibly diverse it is. Just hop on the bus and you will see sitting... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Dellenbach Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job matching service. Business Track, 2005 Uplift Karen Grajwer... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
designed to help ease tensions between Israel and its neighbors. The Palestinian economy, Sir Ronald said, is “a coiled spring” and capable of being “a rising tide” that could attain a GNP of $25 billion. (It’s about $4 billion now.)... View Details
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Amer M. Lahham
Palestinian Jerusalemite, cried that morning, emotional hearing what I had to say. My mom, a Palestinian refugee, wrote it. I remember rehearsing the rhetoric late into the night; words that were charged... View Details
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Israel - Global Activities 2021
price-based incentives to use water sensibly. This makes the challenge for Netafim much more complicated.” Forging Connections through Technology In the case “Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Appearing as part of the School's “Rising to the Challenge” series of presentations examining post–September 11 issues, Ross said of the violence between Israelis and Palestinians that “we are as close to what things looked like before... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market principles to solving social problems in the UK. He also serves as... View Details
- Portrait Project
Oded Eran
the radio. Fast-forward 6 months. I am working with a group of Arabs and Israelis on a conference promoting peace through economic cooperation. After the conference, I grabbed a beer with Sari, a Palestinian entrepreneur from the West... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
What Makes Israel Tick?
1951). The group also traveled to the Palestinian West Bank to assess the status of financial and social institutions required for successful statehood. Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice Arthur Segel chaired the Israel... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
Indian paneer, Palestinian Ackawi, and a range of Hispanic cheeses, such as asadero and Cotija. “Business is pretty simple,” Scharfman told the Wisconsin State Journal. “Identify a market need, figure out how to do it, get access to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
using entrepreneurship as a powerful weapon against poverty.” Three years ago, Cohen helped create and fund The Portland Trust to alleviate poverty and ease tensions in the Middle East through economic means. Working out of London, Tel Aviv, and Ramallah (in the View Details
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Assaf Harlap
program for tomorrow's most promising Israeli and Palestinian high-school students. The uncertain future of our region challenges these students to have high expectations from themselves. Their belief in themselves and others will... View Details
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
“Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress,” coauthors Professor Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner look at Israel in 2020, when the demand for software engineers was endless, while many of the 3,000... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
support for the Geneva Accords, an agreement for a two-state solution negotiated by unofficial delegations of Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2003. The results demonstrate that Israelis are more likely to support agreements that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the first woman to become a tenured... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
people’s lives.” — GE Forsan Hussein The Business of Peace Hussein In the summer of 1998, while working as a fellow with an Israeli human-rights organization, Brandeis student Forsan Hussein interviewed a young Palestinian whose West Bank... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice