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  • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Partners In Health: HIV Care in Rwanda

By: Michael E. Porter, Scott S. Lee, Joseph Rhatigan and Jim Yong Kim
In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at these sites. PIH successfully implemented a... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Health Industry; Rwanda
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  • 2002
  • Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
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  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

other local businesses, for example. The ABA also strengthened the collective identity of indie bookstores by helping its members share best practices, such as how to use social media to promote special... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social... View Details
  • Web

Brian Kenny | About

and implementation of the School’s marketing, communications and public relations efforts around the world. Working with the Dean’s executive team and HBS faculty, Brian oversees the alignment of branding, marketing, and media relations... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

decarbonization, built environment, climate intelligence and insurance, and sustainable agriculture. Sadok's role prior to HBS was an Associate at Kearney and Strategy and Product Management at Siemens. Grace Lam (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Co-Founder,... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

(iStockphoto/400tmax) While summarizing comments to this same question asked about Jack Welch in last month’s column (shown below), I received word of Frances Hesselbein’s death. Welch was regarded by many as the greatest CEO of the 20th century. Hesselbein, national... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • Web

Events - Business History

investing and the B-corps." It "distinguishes deep responsibility, which can deliver radical social and ecological responses, from corporate social responsibility, which is often little more than window... View Details
  • 21 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

and social return can be aligned to drive positive change. The mentality that Professor Rebecca Henderson shared was something new and fresh and quite exciting for me. After graduation, I chose to join a firm that shares a similar belief.... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

UNLEASHED: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss. Copyright 2020 Frances Frei and Anne Morriss. All rights reserved. About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Zambia
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  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

my life,” said RJ Melman, president of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and creator and developer of more than 13 restaurant concepts. “I know a good chunk of those people, this is a family business.” In 2012, the World Economic Forum... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 21 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

favorite—members of both my HLS and HBS sections have tried to get me to claim theirs as my “real” section (especially when I’m wearing my jacket from my other section). Even though I was away from HLS for all of my section mates’ 2L year, I was included in section... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

A Continuum of Innovation

We introduced “RC Pilots” to integrate into the curriculum several important topics related to business and societal changes. One is the short, intensive RC course called Social Purpose of the Firm, which speaks to the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

start-up culture Although Stan had no commitments to any particular industry, he saw his internship as a gateway to entrepreneurship. “Microsoft was immense,” he says. “I wanted to work at a smaller company.” While following the social... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

for granted, ever. Today, social media can quickly amplify the views of even a few vocal opponents, giving voice to latent negative concerns of many otherwise passive groups. As Amazon learned, an apparent... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • April 2020
  • Teaching Note

Glossier: Co-Creating a Cult Brand with a Digital Community

By: Jill Avery
Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-022. Flush with cash from its Series C fundraise, cult beauty brand Glossier considers its next phase of growth, facing critical decisions on how to allocate its capital to support various marketing communications and distribution... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Crowdsourcing; CRM; Startup; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Customer Relationship Management; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Social Media; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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  • 11 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 11

on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that rivalry among firms plays an important role in firms' dynamic decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

author Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. . [Image: isayildiz] Related Reading How To Ask Better Questions It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Jan 2012
  • News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, the social... View Details