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- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment
these here (login required) . Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program : The HBS Nonprofit/Public Sector Loan Repayment Assistance Program was established in 1992 to reduce the educational debt... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- Blog Post
5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
Social Enterprise Club’s conference, are on the leading edge of new technologies and exploring the purpose of business today as we know it. Students have the opportunity to hear from some of the world’s... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
speculation. How to follow the ‘stimmy’ money There’s no direct way to track how stimulus funds went from American pockets into the market, so researchers looked at a wide range of signals, including surveys, US Census and Treasury data, View Details
- October 2022
- Case
Cost Plus Drugs
By: Alexander MacKay and James Barnett
In September 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO Alex Oshmyansky considered the future of the company. Cost Plus Drugs was a retailer for more than 340 generic oral medications, selling their drugs at significantly lower prices than typical pharmacies.... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Health; Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Business Divisions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Texas
MacKay, Alexander, and James Barnett. "Cost Plus Drugs." Harvard Business School Case 723-362, October 2022.
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
crowdsourcing." In exploring these challenges and opportunities, Weiss believes the public entrepreneurship course can help make working in government a viable alternative for innovators looking to effect real change. Noting that HBS offered pioneering courses in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Harvard Business School
the board of the Robert Toigo Foundation and the Howard University Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation Institute. Kenneth Powell MBA 1974 Kenneth Powell is a business and social enterprise leader with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
College and to HBS, where he has worked on and chaired several gift and reunion committees. In addition to serving as chairman of the board of Harvard Student Agencies, he has helped set up a venture fund that aids social and nonprofit... View Details
- September 2023
- Case
Derek Aguirre
By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Derek Aguirre is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Detroit, Michigan that uses the sport of squash as a vehicle to support young people in low-income urban areas. The case discusses his path to pursue meaningful work and his reflections on the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
understanding of service quality, competition, and inventory, while developing a foundation for the exploration of mobile money by operations management scholars. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48472 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. "I just really lacked direction, and needed to focus," says Trejo, who had a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 May 2023
- News
Yahoo Acquires Alumni Startup Wagr
fans that have connected over fantasy sports for decades," Malavé said in the announcement. "The unique combination of Yahoo's scale and engagement creates opportunities for virtuous product loops between sports media and gaming. Joining... View Details
- August 2022
- Case
Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action
By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen
Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Early Childhood Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Literacy; Values and Beliefs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Education Industry; India; Asia
Trelstad, Brian, Tomas Rosales, and Malini Sen. "Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action." Harvard Business School Case 323-002, August 2022.
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
School of Public Health. The handwashing experiment In partnership with engineers at the MIT Media Lab, the researchers designed a simple wall-mounted soap dispenser with a time-stamped sensor hidden inside. The sensor allowed the team to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
one-third of the HBS student body -- traveled to San Francisco and Silicon Valley as participants in the fifth annual WesTrek, an event organized by members of the High Tech and New Media Club in coordination with the School's Career... View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details
- October 2023
- Case
Prime Coalition: Estimating Climate Impact
A case on CRANE, a tool to help investors and green technology companies estimate the future climate impact of new technologies and products, called emissions reduction potential (ERP). The case includes material on CRANE’s methodology for estimating future carbon... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Environmental Accounting; Analysis; Climate Change; Green Technology; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk and Uncertainty; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise
Rigol, Natalia, Benjamin N. Roth, Brian Trelstad, and Amram Migdal. "Prime Coalition: Estimating Climate Impact." Harvard Business School Case 824-119, October 2023.
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details