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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the... View Details
- Career Coach
Warren Radtke
been a small business owner. Work Experience: General Electric, Right Management Consultants, Interim Executive assignments in Human Resources/Talent Management; Director of a nonprofit urban grant making agency; Small business owner... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Social Enterprise
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information about all sorts of things we take... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- Portrait Project
Minh Chau
chopped the onions to bits and pieces. I didn't need my phone to take a picture of it or Facebook likes to validate the joy we shared. Being present mattered. However, I failed to realize that the people I relied on the most were also those I took for View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
co-founder. Once the team was formed, we shifted our focus to grant-raising which was when we discovered the many resources that HBS provides for this. To start, we applied and received grants from Harvard Social Impact Fund, a fund... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Kudos from the Academy
the George R. Terry Book Award, granted once every three years to the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge. Professor Christopher Bartlett was honored with the Distinguished... View Details
- Web
Qi Xu Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Harbus Foundation Awards $60,000 to Local Boston Nonprofits Alex Huang Qi Xu 03 May 2023 On April 20, four teams of... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. In the last 18 years, the foundation has awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career brain cancer researchers. “The View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
internet today,” Ricotta observes. Given the promise of secure satellite-to-ground communications, the US government is among those that are eager to see this realized. Aliro has received grants from the US Air Force Research Laboratory... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Situational Samaritan: How and Why Marketplace Conditions Shape Prosocial Consumer Behaviors
By: Julia von Schuckmann, Lucia S.G. Barrios, Grant E. Donnelly and Marco Bertini
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Offering a breath of life for critically ill patients
Patients suffering from diseases such as inoperable tracheal cancer, or those born without a trachea, have been granted a second chance. As biotechnology and surgical expertise progress, Green foresees a future without waiting lists for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Systemic change makes organizations stronger
Joanna M. Jacobson (MBA 1987), founder/managing partner of Strategic Grant Partners, discusses leading organizations through systemic change. (Published April 2014) View Details
- December 2006
- Article
Reputation and Transparency: Lessons from a Painful Period in Public Disclosure
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Robert M. Grant and Cees B.M. van Riel
Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Robert M. Grant, and Cees B.M. van Riel. "Reputation and Transparency: Lessons from a Painful Period in Public Disclosure." Long Range Planning 39, no. 6 (December 2006): 353–359.
- Article
Social Recycling Transforms Unwanted Goods into Happiness
By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Rebecca Walker Reczek and Michael I. Norton
Consumers are often surrounded by resources that once offered meaning or happiness but that have lost this subjective value over time—even as they retain their objective utility. We explore the potential for social recycling—disposing of used goods by allowing other... View Details
Keywords: Disposition; Well-being; Prosocial Behavior; Pro-environmental Behavior; Happiness; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Environmental Sustainability
Donnelly, Grant Edward, Cait Lamberton, Rebecca Walker Reczek, and Michael I. Norton. "Social Recycling Transforms Unwanted Goods into Happiness." Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 2, no. 1 (January 2017): 48–63.
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
grants to social enterprise programs five years ago,” he said. “Now we’re seeing that pay off in the New York area.” The announcement of awards to honor young alums caused a buzz of approval at the sold-out dinner, which hosted 575 alumni... View Details
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Alex Huang Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Harbus Foundation Awards $60,000 to Local Boston Nonprofits Alex Huang Qi Xu 03 May 2023 On April 20, four teams of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
2012 HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Selected from a competitive process that attracted 19 applicants, Jena will receive a $25,000 grant from HBS to advance his work. Trained as a biomedical engineer, Jena says his ambition is “to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
paper Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? (forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics). "Planning regulation ended up harming independent retailers," she writes. "According to the results shown in the paper, the decline in... View Details