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  • 03 Apr 2015
  • News

Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

– highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society today. The Harvard Business School Campaign was launched in April 2014 to raise $1 billion over the next five years to... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

we want this society to be like? This year we’ve seen debates about the minimum wage at the city and state level. Why? States and cities are always competing—for business, for talent, and so on. These regions and cities are trying to... View Details
Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

genetic research revolution is changing our global economy and society more dramatically than any other single event in the history of humankind," Goldberg observes. "On the other hand, we have a worldwide agricultural economic depression... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Agriculture; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder

wife, Booda, and their son, Cole, born on the first day of classes last fall. He and his wife, who suspended her own career for the couple to come to HBS, decided that he could make a greater contribution to society through a career in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • July 2021
  • Teaching Plan

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Rebecca Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu
Teaching Plan 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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  • 03 Jan 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of US Green Bonds

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker, Daniel Bergstresser, George Serafeim, and Jeffrey Wurgler
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

What do Sir Thomas More, Chinua Achebe, and Sophocles have to offer today's business leaders? For MBA students in HBS professor Sandra Sucher's course, The Moral Leader, great literature helps them find their own definition of moral leadership. Sucher is one of a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • Summer 2025
  • Article

Does Marriage Have a Future?

By: Debora L. Spar and Aryanna Garber
The article explores how technology is reshaping the institution of marriage, highlighting significant changes in societal norms and personal relationships. It discusses the decline in marriage rates in industrialized nations, particularly Japan and the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Technology Adoption; Society; Transformation; Emotions
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Unionization on Consumer Perceptions of Service Quality: Evidence from Starbucks

By: Isamar Troncoso, Minkyung Kim, Ishita Chakraborty and SooHyun Kim
The US has seen a rise in union movements, but their effects on service industry marketing outcomes like customer satisfaction and perceptions of service quality remain understudied. In this paper, we empirically study the impact on customer satisfaction and... View Details
Keywords: Labor Unions; Customer Satisfaction; Perception; Public Opinion; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Mortality; Inequality; Justice; Equity; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Public Opinion; United States
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  • 10 May 2016
  • Other Presentation

Shared Value: A New Global Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter
Harvard Business School's Michael Porter introduces and engages World Bank President Jim Yong Kim in conversation on partnering with the private sector for delivering on global development goals. View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Collective Impact; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Business and Community Relations; Cooperation; Society
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  • August 2016 (Revised October 2016)
  • Case

Nirvana Vihar Rehabilitation Homes

By: Shawn Cole, Andreas Rotenberg and Thomas van den Aarssen
Kumar Builders (KUL) was finally nearing completion on the four luxury condominium towers that comprised the first phase of its bold vision for the redevelopment of more than 70 acres of prime real estate in downtown Pune, India. The Nirvana Hills development also... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Slum Redevelopment; Double Bottom Line; Economic Development; Partnerships; Partners and Partnerships; Development Economics; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Real Estate Industry; India
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

By: Nava Ashraf, Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Urban Development; Organizations; City; Infrastructure; Zambia
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  • 2003
  • Book

The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

By: Sven Beckert
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power,... View Details
Keywords: Literacy; Income; Identity; Culture; Economics; Power and Influence
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  • December 2006 (Revised November 2008)
  • Case

West Wacker Drive: To Build or Not to Build?

In 1980, Thomas J. Klutznick, president of a Chicago-based development company, was considering whether he should build a Class A building on a second-rate site outside the Central Loop or not. He had a promising design, but the economic conditions, concurrent... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Interest Rates; Geographic Location; Risk Management; Urban Development; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Chicago
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  • March 2006 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

Cinco de Mayo

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, David Margain and Andres Caldera Radonski
In 2004, Adrian Pandal is seeking financing for a residential conversion of a building in Mexico City's historic center district. He must convince potential lenders that the project is viable and that it makes sense to bet on the future potential of an area that, until... View Details
Keywords: History; Risk Management; Opportunities; Urban Development; Investment; Property; Real Estate Industry; Mexico City
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  • April 2003 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Celebrity Cruises, Inc.: A Taste of Luxury

By: Frances X. Frei, Corey B. Hajim and Christian Hempell
Describes the complex operations of the cruise industry. Positioned between luxury cruise lines and mass market lines, Celebrity struggles to find ways to create customer loyalty and increase profitability. View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Product Positioning; Operations; Luxury; Shipping Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Turning Point: Life Cycle

Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to meet people and learn more about... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

network Aspen Institute Business & Society Program  Company lists Dow Jones Sustainability Index FTSE4Good Calvert Responsible Index  Events/Conferences Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)  Cleantech Group Forum... View Details
  • Web

Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online

HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in: Leadership & Management Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business in Society Finance & Accounting Marketing What You Earn Certificate of Specialization By completing any three... View Details