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- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
realized that this previously black-and-white issue did have some grey. Eradication of child labor would require a comprehensive look at poverty and options for education. This made me rethink some of my... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the political realm in 2017 and by comparison about $400 billion spent on philanthropy. If you look at the resources being spent in philanthropy—whether it’s related to climate change or poverty or... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) It takes drive and conviction for an MBA student to organize a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
The School’s Immersion Experience Programs challenge MBAs with active, cross-cultural learning situations around the globe, from Silicon Valley to China to Europe. An on-the-ground report from Mexico’s smallest villages and its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
broken. It is really about people and ethics." B. V. Krishnamurthy concurred, saying "... the Act ... is unlikely to result in any radical transformation of the system. Such a transformation has to be an internal process with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
innovative approach to giving than writing checks to 501(c)(3) charities. It’s not an either-or; in fact, at high wealth levels, many individuals and families use both DAFs and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
building a network of community leaders to establish and maintain these arisans, and share in the profit of any sales. It was another way for entrepreneurs in Indonesia’s villages to build View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
likable, and successful—but something derails them. In other words, the daunting challenge for many leaders and aspiring leaders isn't poverty or oppression or lack of skill or... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
"Early in life," says Bennie Wiley, "I learned an important guiding principle: look for ways to exercise your values." As president and CEO of The Partnership, an organization designed to open doors for minority professionals in the city... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
change, Brooks says that entering the ministry late in life has been an asset. In guiding his church and parishioners, he is able to draw on a wealth of life experience, as well as on the leadership View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
When HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan moved to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1973, it was his first experience living outside the United States. “I had three degrees from Harvard, and my major lifetime move had been from the western suburbs of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
such as the life cycles of the family business, dilemmas inherent in working with relatives, grooming the next generation of company leadership, governance of the firm, and managing the impact of wealth on... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC, who has pledged $1 billion of his own wealth to fighting climate change through the Grantham Foundation. “Time is not on our side. We should act as if we are... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
mammoth charitable foundation created by the combined wealth of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. "We have evidence," Sorrell says, "that young consumers are more... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
57th PMD, 1989 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©Jason Grow EARLIER EDUCATION University of Fribourg and University of Bern, 1979 M.D. LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS exposed me for the first time to a truly interactive View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
that the environment is deteriorating, it will exacerbate all other problems," said a respondent. Opined another, "Problems that have no owners - the environment and wealth disparities - will get worse, not... View Details