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- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this innovative approach to funding social services originated. It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Business and Global Society, who leads the Institute. “We want to get their ideas out into the world and to make HBS the center of an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
among their results is that idea that it is not the words used in a particular language that matters, but the way that language is constructed. They looked at the constructions used to describe future actions, and found that the more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
set goals around creating value faster than costs (his preferred goal)." Deepak Alse reminded us that "the world of business is an unbounded system! The 'Corporation' is in effect an acceptance of the idea that profit seeking... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
Clubs News Clubs News NorCal Alumni Get Answers and Share Ideas in Virtual COVID-19 Update The HBS Association of Northern California's COVID-19 Update, a virtual program featuring board member Dr. David Seftel (MBA 1992), has become the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Kelly Carson
many KU students who wanted to improve their second-language skills. My idea was to bring them together to form a mutual partnership." The resulting program became Project Bridge, in which KU students tutor community ESL students in... View Details
- 15 Jul 2025
- News
Bringing Business Insights to Micro-entrepreneurs
help entrepreneurs in Kenya inspired the development of the GrabMerchant AI assistant in Southeast Asia. The idea for the AI assistant grew out of research by Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
latter grouping, great innovators such as Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Muhammad Yunus, and Steve Jobs. These folks built businesses around ideas that changed how we think, what we believe, and how we act. How does one become a shake-the-world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
What was the process? In most cases I interviewed the faculty member and then worked to distill his or her ideas into one salient point. Often they made fifteen fabulous points, so there was some work in figuring out how to focus each... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
how they’re trying to cope. Businesses can do this, too. I have long recommended that an important part of leadership development should be to send people out to new and different places to encounter problems they’ve never seen before and try to solve them. The View Details
- 5:30 PM – 9 PM IST, 05 Jan 2015
- Campaign
A Vision for the 21st Century - HBS in Mumbai
Monday, January 5, 2015 Schedule of Events 3:00 - 5:30 PM HBS Club of India Program 6:00 - 7:00 PM HBS Today Experience HBS with an HBS Faculty member and student perspectives. 7:30 - 8:30 PM A Vision for the 21st Century Experience the impact of HBS in the... View Details
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Shaun Miller
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning an MBA has been a career aspiration of mine since my undergraduate studies - I had always looked forward to the idea of not only expanding my technical skill set, but also learning... View Details
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Chris Wilson-Byrne
the course cases and in his relationships with section mates, is how the way one presents an idea can be as important as the idea itself. "In order to make things work," he says, "you have to... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
don't necessarily conflict with making a profit, business leaders today don't face such formidable challenges to their views. Still, what can managers do to ensure that their industries, their companies, their workplaces, their work, support the environment? Here are... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
Judging Business Track Super Saturday Super Saturday is the first round of live judging of Student Business Track. The judges for this round of the Business track are venture capitalists, past winners, serial founders and angel investors. These investors are looking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
needed to bring global perspectives to classroom discussions. Today, over half of all HBS cases have an international focus. Raising the bar on its global mission, HBS this year required the first-year class to travel abroad to work on a product or service View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
10th grade she was caught showing up high for cross country practice. When she was a junior in high school I found a Vicodin in her purse—I had no idea what a big red flag that was. We all had plenty of counseling, yet after her death, it... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab
by the entrepreneurship bug at an early age, and having helped launch several start-ups, I understand what it takes to bring a business concept from idea to fruition,” said Jones. “I am very excited to make the i-lab a valuable resource... View Details
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Accelerating Innovation | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
social investing. New Venture Competition 1_ujm0fcc5 It All Starts Here The Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition provides an opportunity for students to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native village in Pakistan in 2007 when she got the idea to found the Dreamfly, a global initiative designed to educate, expose, and empower people living in communities of conflict. “We connect... View Details