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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Arts Focus: Arts Funding Team: Victoria Sung Description: Over the fall term, I worked with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to conceptualize and create a prototype for Lincoln Center Global Perspectives, an annual publication that... View Details
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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

as they participate in and shape cross-border trade and investment. Career Focus This course should interest any student who plans to work for a firm with transnational interests or investments or students with significant interests in the View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold

Entrepreneurs Win in Global Competitions BioMine CEO, Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08) Related Links View photos from the contest Meet the 12 regional finalists Listen to the faculty webinar series Learn about the 2011 host clubs Winners of the... View Details
Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 27 Apr 2017
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Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute of Technology and... View Details
  • March 2021 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria

By: Meg Rithmire and Debora L. Spar
In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems. Her firm partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a large project to develop the local dairy industry as a way to facilitate equitable growth and... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Rural Scope; Growth and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Equality and Inequality; Food and Beverage Industry; Consulting Industry; Nigeria
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  • April 2009 (Revised April 2009)
  • Background Note

Note on the Nonprofit Sector

By: Allen S. Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich
This note introduces students to the current state of the nonprofit sector around the world. It also provides insight into the sector's origin and purpose as well as the identifying important current trends. The note draws on numerous sources to provide a single... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Globalization; Business History; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 21 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits

assets, particularly agriculture, is the asset class that is most susceptible to climate change. The global food system contributes upwards of one-third of all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions, so agriculture is also an area where... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

organization for the business risks and opportunities created by climate change. 5 weeks 5-6 hours per week 3 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn .... View Details
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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Cementos Argos in the U.S.: Go Big or Go Home?

By: Jorge Tamayo, Ruth Costas, Pedro Levindo and Karina Souza
In April 2011, Colombian group Cementos Argos had to decide on whether to double down its business in the U.S., amidst the U.S. cement industry’s lowest performance in 30 years. Argos— Colombia’s leading cement producer and one of the “jewels” of Grupo GEA, the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Business Subsidiaries; Talent and Talent Management; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; South America; North and Central America; United States; Colombia
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  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 20 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a recent paper scheduled to be published in the journal View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

employees to raise their creative game. But Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has a different approach, creating an organization that values and rewards innovation rather than attempting to create it with his bare hands. AG Lafley, P&G's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.” Crane’s passion for View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 21 May 2021
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See Us Unite for Change

Courtesy Sheila Lirio Marcelo In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month, MTV’s Entertainment brands are streaming a global television special, “See Us Unite for Change,” on May 21. Hosted by comedian Ken Jeong, the... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

nurture, and manage your organization or client’s brand strategy and value. I'm happy I spent the last six weeks with this course. I discovered a lot of information about brands, including the steps that should take place while creating,... View Details
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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket business strategy, the connections between the activities of government entities and those of firms, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit

Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is managing director of Endeavor Philippines, a branch of the global Endeavor organization, which fights poverty by finding and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. “Our mission statement is to create an economic... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2016
  • News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg