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Pav Guraya

Pav is a social impact/nonprofit industry veteran (consulting/advisory) and career-switcher (strategy consulting). He enjoys assisting students interested in making career changes, particularly into consulting and especially for... View Details

12 Sep 2018
News

Game-Changing Analytics

As CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) is working “to change the conversation around how data analytics are used in the sports and entertainment business.” Spun off from its Kraft Sports View Details

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

is an optimistic point of view. It is the idea that cultural diversity in work groups increases the pool of available resources—such as social networks, skills, and insights—to enhance the group's ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

For restaurateurs, receiving a Michelin star can be a mixed blessing. Certainly it's a rare and celebrated honor—the French company bestows its one-, two-, and three-star ratings only to a select few restaurants worldwide. However, a star begets expectations of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

22 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Class of 2021 Career Choices

to secure fabulous opportunities at 335 organizations all over the world. Our overall median base salary increased only slightly to $150,500 from $150,000 last year, and we didn’t see tremendous shifts in our industry percentages. We did see a strong View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Catherine Neale

Orleans, "helping people gut houses and reopen schools." But unlike many volunteers inspired by the intensity of the moment, Catherine returned to the Crescent City. "There were many groups down there," Catherine says,... View Details

16 Jan 2018
News

Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

dress-rehearsal performances of the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, and a tour and business talk at the Museum of Modern Art. The group also runs a Brown Bag Lunch series, where alumni can get together View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2002
News

Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

corporate social responsibility to a group of students in China. After her talk, a confused young listener approached her. “She said, ‘But we all know that in order to succeed in business, you have to be... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Short Takes

environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help develop new approaches to complicated economic and View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

entity is controlled by a fluid disaggregated group of public shareholders. Thus, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a proposed merger of Time Incorporated and Warner Communications did not effect a change of control of Time even... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

Their findings were published in the May 17, 2016, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A TEMPORARY STATE OF INEQUALITY Research on inequality usually measures a relatively fixed socioeconomic status based on education, income, and geographic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details

June 2008
Teaching Note

Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Teaching Note for [inse107038]. View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Performance; Groups and Teams; Management Systems; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; Brazil

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23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Education Sector Opportunities at HBS - MBA

Social Innovation Lab. She was also able to examine the economic forces around teachers unions through her group paper in the Role of Government in Market Economies and explore current issues facing school... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Aug 2002
News

Service Leadership Fellows

The School's inaugural group of Service Leadership Fellows gathered for a Class Day breakfast celebration. For students interested in working in social enterprises after graduation, the new program matches... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

and facilitator training. Flora passionately advocates for the benefits of experiential learning. She has designed, directed, and staffed many experiential conferences, simulations, and retreats for executives on the dynamics of organizational life using View Details

June 2018
Teaching Note

Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work

By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036. View Details