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- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
longer—to reach gender equity.” That one, daunting statistic became the impetus for Stark and the HBS Club of Toronto to present a virtual panel discussion, “The Impact of the Pandemic on Gender Equity: Can We Regain the Lost Ground?” held on May 12. The club has... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
lives, careers, and volunteer activities embody the finest examples of public service and the Jeffersonian ideal of citizen involvement. Among this year’s other recipients was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Before... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
children. Second, I believed it was essential to actively recruit and help tenure other bright, motivated women scholars and teachers for the HBS faculty. Where did you find the inner resources to persevere in an era when there were so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Fall Reunions: Remembrance and Renewal
Last October 4–7, some thirteen hundred graduates and guests from the MBA Classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, and 1976 gathered at HBS for the traditional round of academic sessions and social gatherings. The School was alive with View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
come together to plan an event or activity that will recognize and continue their ongoing commitment to social enterprise — a history that includes efforts as diverse as volunteer consulting, fundraising,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
institutional environments alter financing decision-making around the world. Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business edited by Bruce L. Hay, Robert N. Stavins, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
standards and social responsibility, technology, globalization, the School's Soldiers Field campus, and the essential contributions that women are making in the business world. While a lot has changed at HBS in 75 years, it is remarkable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and to see how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this,” said Senior Lecturer Dan Isenberg, who helped organize the visits to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. The... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2020 prompted reflection on how we could expand Edwards' active community engagement to provide even more support for our employees and communities, particularly as it relates to social equity and justice,"... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
themselves with social causes or wish to bring about positive change in the world. Beyond the income these artists are receiving, the confidence and hope it instills within them touches every part of their lives. A lot of these artists... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
conversation about the challenges and opportunities of this new divided world we’re facing. What impact can BiGS have on society at large? We want to help drive the process of rethinking the role that business can and should play. We want to reimagine capitalism, not... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
sure that Charley and other kids with DMD can make it there—and have some semblance of a normal life. While Benjy describes his middle child as energetic—"You'd be hard-pressed to know he has such an active disease," he notes—Charley's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
marking a reunion year in 2003 plus graduates of the Class of 2001. The overall response rate was 31 percent. The results of the survey will help the School shape a wide range of programs and activities targeted toward prospective and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
differential in rates. In 1986, the US government equalized the rates, and we saw no difference in the activity of people investing. Also, for the life of me, I don’t understand the rationale behind the 15 percent carried interest rate,... View Details