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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
work with the foundation. It wasn’t just her diagnosis, though; it also was her parents’ commitment to giving back. Throughout Smyth’s childhood, Anne had volunteered with Plunket, an organization that View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services to "make" internally as opposed to what it buys in the marketplace. A firm may integrate "forward" into the channels used to distribute its output to customers, or "backward" into the supply chain that View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
the forefront of a trend reshaping the development sector. The organization doesn’t only have touching stories to tell. It also has numbers. GiveDirectly began its efforts in Siaya County, on the southwestern edge of Kenya, where 40... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy
Helen Textor, Director of Talent Acquisition, Bloom Energy Describe your organization in three to five sentences. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy is a provider of breakthrough fuel cell technology generating... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
indigenous cultures in other countries. Champions of free trade have countered that people in other nations want to partake of the great American dream, and global brands like Coke, McDonald's, and Nike provide access to it. That debate... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
we were going to tear down. And it said High Meadows Farms. High Meadows today is several locations, about 1,000 acres. It's organized as a corporation. Our aim is not to make a profit. Our aim is to run a place that people really like to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
community development movement that provides all low-income people with affordable housing and the opportunity to move into the economic mainstream. Working through a network of more than twelve hundred community-based nonprofit View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
understand the strategy, and translate it into actions they can take to help the organization succeed. Here is a picture of two employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with their strategy map helping them do their job in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Decade of Change
experience high-impact management positions at 44 nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary, the funding of which is shared between HBS and the participating organization. The program underwrites half... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
intellectual center of the School. In the summer of 2003, the School began an extensive renovation of the building, which will reopen as the Baker Library Academic Center next summer. The new center will provide enhanced access to the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
boycotts at universities by students who go to their own administrators and say, “You have to ensure that our sportswear isn’t made with sweatshop labor.” All those companies and organizations with brands to protect have to focus on this... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
economic environment. The I-Net, Nolan explains, merges a firm's intranet seamlessly with the Internet, creating "fluid, permeable, and connected" enterprises that "truly reflect the speed, collaboration, and scalability of the network economy." View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
provide Patagonia’s isolated inhabitants with English education, preventative medical care, conservation and conservation education, and sustainable economic development. The for-profit company also sells carbon offsets—reductions in... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Patriots Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty. What started with the couple grew to five staffers working out of the couple’s home. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
other organizations as you use this to turn your human resource to human capital.” Several respondents nevertheless expressed caution in just how to manage inclusion, particularly when it comes to the specifics of one aspect of inclusion,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
and opened just eight years ago, ASMS is a private school driven by the mission to provide an academically challenging, inquiry-based learning environment for children in grades 6 through 8. “At the end of 5th grade, American students are... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sharon Liszanckie
forecasts, highlighting the huge, and NECESSARY, role they must play to improve inequality. I hope to learn, from for-profit examples, how organizations resistant to systemic changes are led to embrace these changes, and then apply these... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
people, especially in the early years of their careers. Within the first three years at the organization, minority executives had established at least one developmental relationship, usually with a boss or a boss's boss. These mentors View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Connecting past to present
back to the late 1300s. “We are guided by a very human mission: to help every person discover, preserve, and share their family history,” says Sullivan. “We work together across the globe to provide something truly priceless: authentic... View Details