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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
solutions to social problems, identifying efficiencies in an economic environment, and finding creative solutions to them is the next growth story for emerging markets.” — HBS professor Tarun Khanna on private-sector engagement in View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
German Family to Give $11M After Learning Extent of Nazi Past
After an internal investigation revealed his company’s historic ties to Nazi Germany, JAB Holdings’ managing partner Peter Harf (MBA 1974) announced that the company intends to donate 10 million euros to a yet-to-be-determined charity. The research found that, in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
However, like most social sciences, it’s historically based and typically involves one faculty member and their research assistant working on the case project. But there is a real opportunity here to adopt a scaled research model, a lab... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
journey became the genesis of Saga. Cofounded with Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Saga is a social mobile app that helps families save and share stories in an audio format. Launched in mid-2020, the company currently has six full-time employees... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
off to the side, wondering if there’s something I’m just not getting about the party. When I looked left and right, I realized so many of these interactions that unlock opportunity are a function of factors like where you’d grown up, what school you went to, who your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
about anything. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the country believe it could crawl out of a depression, rallied it around social change that created a middle class, and mobilized the greatest military in the world to conquer fascism. After... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
values from other societies, from other communities. Both in terms of professional skills, in terms of just personal attributes. We're building a business at Andela, it's not a social enterprise, it's not a nonprofit. I think any good... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting... View Details
- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Keeping the Coast Clear
Photo courtesy Save the Bay Photo courtesy Save the Bay As executive director of the non-profit Save the Bay, Jonathan Stone (MBA 1984) leads the organization’s efforts to protect the waters and habitats of Narragansett Bay, educate the public, and advocate for... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Helping the American Red Cross deliver services
Mark L. Capaldini (MBA 1979), an active ambassador for the American Red Cross, has found it rewarding to be a board member for the organization’s northern Minnesota chapter. (Published March 2015) View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that nature sticks around for quite some time, for his... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Taking up the issue of climate change
As chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Alan Horn (MBA 1971) is in the business of creating magical worlds that captivate audiences. He also is passionate about the real-world issue of climate change and its impact on future generations. "When my wife, Cindy, was pregnant... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland investment management firm, says Lyme Timber stands out among... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit
The name William K. Bowes Jr. (MBA 1952) is synonymous with the development of venture capital in America and the rise of Silicon Valley. As a founder of U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in 1981, the late HBS alum launched a long list of medical and high-tech companies,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online) is a for-profit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
The capital gains rate is a policy lever, not a social lever. A government should care about the less fortunate, for sure. But a government cannot achieve that by punishing success and standing in the way of economic growth. If capital... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
the number of COVID-19 cases to ensure hospitals are not overwhelmed. That’s why we’re all social distancing and washing our hands. But we also need to “raise the line,” meaning increase healthcare capacity. We need more ventilator and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
referred to as the mother of the Pell Grant. Thanks to that exposure, my sister, Susan, and I knew our career journeys would be focused on impact and community.” Prep work: “The skills and relationships I developed at HBS, Disney, and the NBA have been critical to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details