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- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing staffing assistance to hospitals around the country. Moreno, who...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Harvard Business School's mission to bring cutting-edge business practice to the classroom." According to Dwight B. Crane, senior associate dean, director of Faculty Development, a number of factors are exerting new pressures on the HBS...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
businessperson, or academic trying to address the developing world’s greatest challenges.” He believes this is the perfect opportunity to bring all his skills together in one project. “USAID itself has, at a high level, a mission to end...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
the Web," she says. Related Links Amy Schiffman Langer in the HBS video documentary "A Woman's Place" Management skills learned at HBS helped Langer, who became executive director in 1990, establish a diverse and wide-ranging mission of...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
learnings captured in his recent book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies. READ MORE Flint: Why don't we start by talking about what you mean by deep purpose and how it’s different from the mission statements...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
their critics directly, accept accountability for performance, stop worrying about who is higher or lower, and value the mission more than their own status are likely to be effective, well-regarded, and happy. —Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the...
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- 17 Jul 2020
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Support System
mother’s B2B business, and built Eu’Genia Shea and Mother’s Shea—B2C, for-profit shea-butter brands. Akuete’s brands maintained her mother’s original mission of improving the lives of shea-nut pickers in Ghana. “My mom—on a very, very...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
through the collaborative process." He also notes that "in cross-sector social-purpose collaborations, unlike commercial business alliances, an essential ingredient for strong leadership involvement is an emotional connection individuals make with the social View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Leaders typically ask, “Am I accomplishing my program?” But that is too narrow a view. Nonprofit leaders need to be more visionary. They need to stretch themselves more and worry about mission impact. I believe nonprofit leaders get too...
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- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Girls for Humanity (FGFH), the mission of which was to provide humanitarian services and funding to communities in need across the world. Hanazawa mobilized the global fashion industry by soliciting excess merchandise from luxury brands...
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Maureen Harmon
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social...
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Jill Radsken
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
ask: ‘If your organization was to suddenly disappear, would the world shed a tear?’ I always liked her thought-provoking metaphor.” Honing Pathways’ mission is an ever work in progress. Taylor and his team recognize that emotional support...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
classroom lecture. Instead, HBX will provide a unique, "digital-first" experience created with the online learner in mind. Anand is overseeing the launch of three distinct products this June, each grounded in the HBS mission and learning...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
global organization whose mission is accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults. Much of their early work has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs through the aptly named Aging2.0 GENerator—which provides strategic...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
are trained to make a difference in the world. Such stories inspire the School’s majority of alums to feel more connected and akin to each other, to HBS, and to the mission we all share. Lorne Adrain (MBA ’83) Providence, RI How to Make...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
world where business content and financial products and services will be integrated seamlessly into the member experience—all driven by unique user data and machine learning models.”It’s a development that ties in with Camino’s mission to...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
would drive the ball farther and straighter more often. It was incredibly effective: Sabin would set the program in motion, come back a week later, and voila—a perfect, data-backed design. It was an amazingly useful tool. But when Sabin came to HBS's MS/MBA program in...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
associate dean for Business and Global Society. “They exemplify the mission of BiGS: to shine a light on those areas where business and society intersect and where research can help make meaningful change.” The program provides HBS with...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Oct 2016
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Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Harvard faculty and administrators, life science investors, and life science entrepreneurs. “These are people who truly understand the mission of the Life Lab from a pedagogical standpoint and also those who understand the complexities to...
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