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  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Brian Trelstad
Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details
Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

the process of creating and evaluating new business and social impact ventures. Winners & Runners-Up Finalists 2025 Winners Past Winners & Runners-Up Play Argus Systems: Dubilier Grand Prize Winner, Student Business Track, 2025 New... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve a number of different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2017
  • Blog Post

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS

years, I wanted to learn more about how top corporate executives developed turnaround strategies for their companies and managed diverse teams. I also wanted to bring back those same strategies and approaches into social justice... View Details
  • Web

Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

managing cost, the challenge of improving value depends critically on shifting the focus of delivery systems from health care to health. Prioritizing health requires delivery systems to address issues related to the View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Creativity from Many Angles

professor Mukti Khaire. “This idea was referred to and expanded upon often throughout the conference.” Khaire noted that the issue of social and environmental concerns and the need to address these problems... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

No Place Like Home

prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate Game, Poorvu sees the housing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

they were transitory. As Sudip Sen put it, "The 'export' of any activity, be it manufacturing or service outsourcing, is driven by pure economics. True, it has a social and political impact; but more often than not the latter adjusts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money, and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Class Notes Extra

faithful classmates who touch base at least once a year with news of the kids, a job change, or exciting vacation exploits. Their summaries enrich the continuing narrative of the Class Notes — Harvard Business School's own version of an epic tale — from View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

raise this capital, and under what terms can we raise it? How can entrepreneurship solve social problems and how should ventures be financed when there are benefits beyond the bottom line? And finally, but crucially, what are the... View Details
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

two different forums - the question: what is the value of history in business? Day One of the conference explored the value of history for today’s practitioners and policy makers through the lens of four major issues currently facing... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

you look at the topics that they’ve been choosing, it’s been marriage equality, race relations, a whole host of social issues—but hardly anything on climate change. There are a few speaking out on the topic, but I’m waiting for companies... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social impact leads a firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Tech for the People

free disaster-relief housing to neighbors in need. “It’s the first program of its kind in the US,” he notes. “I’m grateful to have had the chance to help add another resource to San José’s robust emergency response program.” That chance had come by way of a fellowship... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

research. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15319   PublicationsSuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:New York: Crown,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

A Force for Good

“regular guy,” who seemed to have no particular agenda other than getting to know a city councilman from the other side of town. That low-key lunch, recalls Menino, marked the beginning of a warm and enduring friendship. “In my business, you need somebody to go to when... View Details
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  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

with many workers crossing from Mexico, every day. Given the relatively low rate of unemployment in the US and the paucity of jobs in Mexico at the time, it seemed certain that the issue of immigration would be pursued by the leaders of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett