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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

percent have been placed in or found jobs in the retail and hospitality sectors, earning at least twice the minimum wage on average. By 2019, its target goal is to train 25,000 unemployed youth annually. “We want to write the playbook for... View Details

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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

for the Collective Academy, a for-profit institution of higher learning expected to enroll its first students in early 2016. Initially based in Mexico City, Bichara hopes to expand operations around Mexico and beyond with a curriculum focused on business, technology,... View Details

02 Nov 2016
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Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

to wait for payment for the work they had performed. With small businesses responsible for nearly $100 billion in contracts with the federal government, our goal was to get this cash to these small firms... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

29 Jun 2021
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DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement that followed, institutions across the country, including Harvard Business School (HBS), examined themselves with a critical eye. In the subsequent... View Details

30 Jun 2021
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Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement that followed, institutions across the country, including Harvard Business School (HBS), examined themselves with a critical eye. In the subsequent... View Details

25 Jun 2019
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Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

Children’s Hospital, I went on to study bioengineering at Harvard. I became fascinated with biotech and established a goal of transitioning research into treatments that would make a meaningful difference for patients. After college,... View Details

September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
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Chai Point: Disrupting Chai

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani

Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

will be considered. The venture can be a nonprofit, for-profit or hybrid model. The venture can only be supported by one fellowship from Harvard Business School during the fellowship year. Preference is to fund full-time roles of... View Details

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A Day in the Life: IT Business Analyst | Information Technology

A Day in the Life: IT Business Analyst By Annie Harrison on May 22, 2025 Ryan Conwell, manager of the IT Business Analysis team, shares how business analysts play a crucial... View Details

14 May 2019
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Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Jul 2021
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Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

Equity Team in the Vaccine Operations Center, whose goals are to achieve maximum vaccination levels in New York City, to close the vaccination gap between different boroughs and ethnic groups, and to tackle structural racism in healthcare... View Details

July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
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Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)

By: Clayton Rose and Aldo Sesia

In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with... View Details

Keywords: Banking; Family Business; Strategy And Execution; Banks and Banking; Family Ownership; Financial Institutions; Strategy; Banking Industry; United States; Alabama

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Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

the HBS Business Plan Contest. “A commitment to social enterprise is embedded in the fabric of HBS,” notes Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman, the track’s faculty organizer. Despite tacit recognition of the different View Details

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Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

backdrop for class discussions will be sectors such as youth development, housing, hunger, financial inclusion, and healthcare, both domestic as well as international. One of the main goals of the course will be to develop an... View Details

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the joint goal of supplying steel for... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

senior leaders from business, government, and the nonprofit sector, alongside nine Harvard Business School faculty members. This roundtable generated a candid exchange of perspectives on the early outcomes of the United States' industrial... View Details

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Sharing a Strategic Perspective | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

important as Save the Children sets its strategic course for the next 15 years around goals that include ending the death of children under age 5 of preventable causes; ensuring all children have access to high-quality education with good... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education

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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Course Number 2227 Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Final Project We talk to people to achieve success in every aspect of View Details

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