Impact Portfolio Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Mar 2022
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Workforce Trends You Need to Know, How COVID Impacted Digital Transformation, & Why Low Wage Jobs Are So Hard to Fill

31 Mar 2020
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Companies Form #paytoday Coalition Encouraging Enterprises And Government Agencies To Pay Their Small Business Suppliers Today

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

The first conversation wasn't promising: The Secklers came in planning to set up a venture fund to support companies pursuing DMD treatments and were looking for a fund manager; Williams, a former SVP at Genzyme with no fund-managing... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2011
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Two Kinds of Green

social and environmental concerns into daily operations. In the multimedia case “Burt’s Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability,” HBS associate professor Christopher Marquis uses text exhibits and video interviews to show how the small natural products View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2005
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Faculty Research Online

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model Associate Professor Tarun Khanna examines a “Robin Hood” cardiac hospital in India, which treats patients regardless of their ability to pay. His findings? A solvent, successful model of international health care. Is Business... View Details

Keywords: nonprofit; social impact; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella

this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance