Filter Results:
(2,526)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,526)
- People (34)
- News (1,037)
- Research (842)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (649)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,526)
- People (34)
- News (1,037)
- Research (842)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (649)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
School named a new group of Leadership Fellows, graduating MBAs taking yearlong key positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations at salaries partially subsidized by HBS. The School also announced the recipient of the inaugural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
to keep her career options open. “I’m definitely interested in nonprofit management, but I’m not ruling out anything,” she states. “To have come this far in my life has been such a blessing. I will continue to share that blessing with... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Previous Business Plan Contests have produced successful companies such as Bang Networks, a leading provider of technologies and services enabling the real-time Internet; Finale, an upscale restaurant that serves desserts and beverages; and Low Cost Eyeglasses, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the transition to entrepreneurial or... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
was roughly a 60-40 split, with 60 percent allocated in stocks and 40 percent in bonds. That’s a classic portfolio for investors of the same age, which Minor says helped confirm he was on the right track. The misconduct data took more effort to gather. He turned to a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
Transplantation Network (OPTN). This national registry and waiting list is managed by the private nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which has the unenviable task of making priority and allocation decisions for each new... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
empirical projects, and experiments—the latter often in conjunction with the Doorways to Dreams Fund, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial products for low-income families. My first outlet for teaching the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
(BiGS) partnered with the Harvard Business School Latin America Research Center to convene leaders from across the region to discuss the role of business in addressing inequality. Seventy executives from industry, academia, government, and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
nonprofits to the managerial emphasison unregulated pro forma earnings, to teamwork in health-care organizations. Synopses of three of the presentations follow. Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives In 2000, CEOs were... View Details
- April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Owens & Minor (O&M) performed lean inventory services for Virginia Mason (VM) as its Alpha Vendor, but the outdated industry pricing model created perverse incentives and could not capture O&M's costs. Together, O&M and VM created an activity-based pricing model: Total... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Model; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Asset Pricing; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 110-063, April 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Mistry Architects (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
This case is a follow-up to "Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (A)" (Case 609-044) and (B) (Case 609-064). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu Mistry founded and run an architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible.... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Environmental Sustainability
Edmondson, Amy C., Robert G. Eccles, and Mona Sinha. "Mistry Architects (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-086, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
- 25 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry
the Cannes, Tribeca, Los Angeles, and Toronto international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
certification by the nonprofit Climate Bonds Initiative, which provides a Climate Bond Standard (CBS) rating. Green bonds priced at a premium In the past eight or nine years, they found, the green bond market has gone from nonexistent to... View Details
- Web
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
relatively young age to make a meaningful impact.” “We feel we get a lot out of Josh,” says Alastair. “It’s not just the work -- the impact of having talent like his radiates out and inspires others around him.” Josh Latson, MBA 2015 Topics View Details
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
social issues in collaboration with government and nonprofit sectors. Leadership for Systems Change : Insights into the personal and professional journey of systems leaders, including skill development, risk management, and the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
Bridgespan bridges philanthropists and nonprofit organizations in the social sector. It bridges theory and practice, the business and nonprofit worlds, to increase impact through better strategy and... View Details