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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and Building Sustainable Cities....
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- 12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
in too many neighborhoods, the messages they receive are overwhelmingly that society has low expectations for their lives. And, if not countered, those messages can become self-fulfilling. We all have a responsibility to help give every...
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Deborah Blagg
- 26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
passionate about giving back to society and is particularly interested in supporting women and children. She has served on UNICEF’s board of directors since 2005 and recently joined the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
a cultural industry, not boring at all,” he says, listing Indochine, Cinema Paradiso, and Dead Poets Society among his favorites. While he devoted weekdays to the family business, Ramirez spent weekends continuing his economic research...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Fostering Diversity
as a motivation for their philanthropic support. “When we consider the impact that we personally can have on society versus the impact that HBS can have, the School wins, hands down,” says Ben. The couple has designated their recent...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future
Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School drew upon the findings of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2020
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Making Democracy Work
challenges that business, government, and society are facing. Navigating the Populism Phenomenon Building a Strong and Prosperous Society Maintaining a Resilient Democracy Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
type of collaboration and convenings that will be made possible by HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). “BiGS can support research and bring visiting fellows to HBS to think creatively about the...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2012
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Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
capital and labor, disconnecting business from society and posing conflicts between them. She advocates a new approach to leadership and corporate behavior in which companies exhibit, among other things, a common purpose, a long-term...
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- 29 May 2019
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Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government
engaged in philanthropy—while not waiting to give back on their own. “I can just tell you after 50-plus years in business and government, people have a lot more respect for those who make a difference in society than they do for people...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
number of mothers have thanked me personally for Pushpins. We created a successful enterprise, bringing value to society and to our investors, and that’s a model I want to repeat again.” Michailidis has designated his own gifts to HBS to...
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- 13 Dec 2011
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Carry It On
inner-city high school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Glassman graduated from Rutgers University in 1964 and enlisted in the US Army. After serving as a platoon leader in Vietnam, he returned home to a society increasingly preoccupied with...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
interests, above our partisan interests—political conflict has often proved highly productive, and a great deal has been achieved. Today, we need to look hard at ourselves and our own political parties and make sure a strong and resilient democracy remains our first...
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
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Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in...
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- 19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future
School is really about developing leaders who make a difference in the world,” he observes. “By adjusting their business paradigms to put more emphasis on adding value to society and focusing on the needs of the poor, business leaders can...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans
Ensuring that quality, Teo says, means focusing not only on growing fast but also on growing well. For Funding Societies, that means a borrower must have at least $250,000 in revenue and meet with a loan officer before the Funding View Details
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
persist. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Making Democracy Work Building a Strong and Prosperous Society Maintaining a Resilient Democracy Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
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April White
- 01 Jun 2008
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Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
unimaginable at the time they are made. Who would have predicted the changes in society that have come from classification of the elements into the periodic table, or from quantum mechanics, or the World Wide Web? Who would have guessed...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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What a Difference a Community Can Make
can and should be a force for good. The best business leaders take seriously their responsibility to create sustainable solutions to real-world problems and to help bridge the divides that are so evident in society today. More than...
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