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October 2010 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Bessemer Trust: Guardians of Capital

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen

Henry Phipps, Jr. made his fortune in the steel industry alongside one of America's most celebrated entrepreneurs—Andrew Carnegie. His wealth was administered in the form of trusts, which he hoped would provide a stream of income for his family and their descendants... View Details

Keywords: Wealth; Asset Management; Family Business; Business History; Income; Entrepreneurship; Capital; United States

December 2006 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children

By: David E. Bell and Laura Winig

In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category, Disney Consumer Products (DCP) debuted a broad line of "better for you" foods, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables to frozen meals, through a partnership with Kroger supermarkets. In answer to... View Details

Keywords: Age; Nutrition; Brands and Branding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

February 2025
Case

Doing Business in Casablanca, Morocco

By: Karen G. Mills, Ahmed Dahawy and Choetsow Tenzin

This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Morocco. The case explores the various historical, cultural, and social factors that impact the business environment. It also highlights Morocco’s unique economy where cash remains a dominant... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Cash; Culture; Distribution Industry; Financial Services Industry; Morocco

November 1997
Case

Borden Ranch: Balancing Private Property Rights and Social Interests in Ag

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Don Daniels and Diane Richmond

Angelo Tsakopoulos wanted to convert grazing land to crop agriculture. He received different advice from different government agencies and became involved in legal battles. View Details

Keywords: Property; Social Entrepreneurship; Rights; Agribusiness; Social Issues; Interests; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

01 Mar 2007
News

Winter Break Just Got Educational

IMMERSION EXPERIENCES: Students who traveled to New Orleans spent time working on Habitat for Humanity redevelopment projects. Winter break this year gave some 200 MBA students an opportunity to participate in one of three pilot, noncredit Immersion Programs created to... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

15 Apr 2025
News

Mothers of Invention

the potential, Lin says, to play a greater role in society by encouraging more women to pursue entrepreneurship—knowing that roughly 86 percent of women in the US will become mothers. “What if more people believed that they could build... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Feb 2001
News

High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS

development in our culture and our society that is going to change the world," said Clark, who backed up his words with an invitation to hold the event at HBS again next fall. On the first full day of the forum, the real business began as... View Details

Keywords: Singleton, Laura; Springboard 2000

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

prominent example of the significant venture money now available from investors and philanthropists who are willing to fund innovative ideas and entrepreneurs in the education sector. There is a greater willingness to back firms that want to make a difference in View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

backbone throughout all three years. At times, my studies left me overwhelmed by the magnitude of the work that awaits our generation. However, this tremendous opportunity comes with a responsibility to contribute to society in... View Details

Web

Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

design, composition, and lighting, and in the early 1920s a number of their works in Vanity Fair included modernist views of everyday objects. 19 “[White] provided a bridge between the older amateur of the photographic societies and a... View Details

Web

IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog

meeting with and learning from leaders in politics and business from across Africa. In South Africa there will also be opportunities to discover the social and cultural landscape of Africa, including the changing role of women in the View Details

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Mar 2021
News

Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia

Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Connie Baher (MBA 1980) I was standing in New York’s Asia Society Museum when I saw it. A high school kid from Connecticut, I’d taken the train to the big city and was nosing... View Details

Keywords: mentorship; nonprofit management; retirement; leadership

01 Mar 2017
News

The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

and able to assimilate any degree of diversity. What European politicians are realizing is that the tools they had for assimilation and building a multicultural society are really under deep stress now, and so you see the rise of the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2005
News

Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

With the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program, I had the opportunity to follow my passion and work on my project to support senior care in China. As China is entering into an ageing society sooner than everyone might have imagined... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Mar 2008
News

Faculty Books

How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy by John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz (HBS Press) Professor Quelch and Research Associate Jocz demonstrate marketing's critical role in the growth and governance of societies and how good... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

And then—Don’t Shoot the Messenger.” Inanc Inan was prescient as he kicked off this month’s discussion by asking, “Where does the buck stop? (The) first ethical step (by Boeing’s CEO) would be to step away from the post to signal to shareholders and most importantly to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

1929 crash—an event he failed to predict. But, more generally, while individual forecasters came and went, some making it rich and others not, the bigger story is that the industry created key resources for society as a whole. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web. Sleeping By The Cell Phone Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technology, said Sue... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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