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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
’93) who has been a social entrepreneur in the education sector for the past three decades. His work includes founding a venture backed school network, leading a firm that has been advising and supporting public school districts around the US, View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
spent more than a decade at PepsiCo, for the most part undertaking brand management for well-known products such as Aquafina and Starbucks Bottled Frappuccino. During her time at the company, she was also tapped to work on a PepsiCo initiative to support the United... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
bottom line. Some companies have invested time and energy into their CSR programs only after getting burned by bad publicity. For example, Nike suffered from an onslaught of negative press and large-scale protests from those who claimed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the total spend available and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
of global finance, the very ideas and laws that sustain the system, the height of this era of globalization has already been reached. The globalization of finance, in this sense, reached its peak in the autumn of 1998. The condemnation by... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
YaleGlobal piece mentions Growing Sustainable Business and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa as positive collaborations between business, government, and nongovernmental organizations. Are there... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow - MBA
Want to Read The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024) Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025) Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
crisis strikes, what will become of it in the longer term? By the same token, allocating resources to long-term exploration might incur the risk of precipitating the fall. Egalitarianism and International Investment Authors:Jordan I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
power of the private sector. Business is uniquely effective at scaling sustainable solutions. Ensuring that existing businesses led our interventions enabled us to avoid the all-too-common pitfall in foreign aid: offering band-aid... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the latter half of the twentieth century , venture capital investment transformed groundbreaking technologies into sustainable enterprises and contributed to the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, disruptive innovations typically take advantage of "asymmetries of motivation" by entering markets that incumbents are motivated to exit or ignore. Looking at a competitor's income... View Details
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Meredith Hamilton
Meredith [she/her] has served as a mentor and coach to innumerable mid-career staff as well as several CEOs in the social sector. She is committed to creating a safe space for students and alumni to explore questions of professional identity and career progression... View Details
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5 Facts About HBS Conferences - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
their current values-has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has implications across the world of business, because the accounting basis-whether fair value or historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/pomalco.pdf Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting Authors:Robert G. Eccles and Daniela Saltzman Publication:Stanford Social Innovation Review (summer 2011) An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
that Invest Early children were better prepared for kindergarten than their low-income counterparts and the proficiency gap between Invest Early and high-income children had decreased significantly.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
plans-epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)-which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Creating Brand Value Course Number 1925 Executive Fellow Michael Moynihan Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Assistant Professor Julian de Freitas Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Career Focus: This course is designed for students who... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
from fiscal 2018—and generated 400 percent growth in revenue for the year. Total Online revenue amounted to 5 percent of the School’s total revenues in fiscal 2019, compared with 2 percent for the prior year. Gifts & Endowment Philanthropic revenue has long been vital... View Details