Social Globalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2022
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Finding Her Place

global franchises and innovation at ConvaTec, helping to prepare the $1.8 billion, London-based company to go public. After its successful IPO, in 2018, Hudson took some time off to travel with her husband but fully expected to return to... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

“What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social impact?” —MIKE FEERICK (MBA 1993) “What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2009
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Of Value and Values

On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

been a series of interwoven threads. Coming back to HBS has been an opportunity to tie them together," says Senior Lecturer Diana Barrett. The most recent of the three to return to HBS, Barrett joined the faculty in 1998, drawn by her love of teaching, the School's... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Apr 2020
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How Sarah Kauss Built S’well

on her recent HBS Reunion, where she had listened to Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag discuss the impacts of climate change and the looming global water crisis. “I had this idea that if there was a company that was creating a better water... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally

collectively with businesses and academics worldwide to generate globally relevant knowledge.” The formation of the HBS Global Initiative in 1996 and the opening of research centers in Hong Kong, Buenos... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details

19 Jan 2024
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Blockchain for Good

sharp declines in cash use and other major disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. Enter Millicent, the blockchain-based digital financial venture Dyer cofounded a year ago. Both a financial network and a social impact... View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Forward Thinking

1984) moved to Texas, where she quickly noticed the social and cultural imperative to understand football. She didn’t. So Myers spent four years studying the sport and a decade as a middle and high school football coach. Her team won a... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus Contreras; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

not-too-distant future. Those kinds of questions were very real for Cummins in the last decade as the company was forced by global competition to undergo considerable change. Amid downsizing and restructuring, how do you maintain the work... View Details

19 Oct 2021
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In the Contest for Content

Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares As the founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) is establishing herself within the high-stakes contest to own the catalogs of music that attract users to View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad

gained hands-on, global experience in January 2016 by collaborating for eight days on projects with businesses in 15 emerging markets and in Boston. The immersion in São Paulo was organized by HBS’s Global... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

09 Feb 2017
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Black Business Leaders Series: Putting Diversity to Work

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank

“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student Christina Adams (HBS 2013)... View Details