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Narayanan Vaghul
Narayanan Vaghul, Former Chairman of ICICI Bank Limited, recounts discovering and establishing strong financial backing for Pratham, an NGO that seeks to improve the quality of education for children throughout India (Filmed October 26, 2017). View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
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Francis Okomo-Okello
Francis Okomo-Okello, Chair of the leading Kenyan luxury hotel group Serena and of the subsidiary of a major foreign bank, describes his belief that a bank must engage in responsible lending for the sake of... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
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Devi Shetty
Devi Shetty, who founded Narayana hospitals in India, shares one of the most difficult challenges of working as a surgeon in a developing country such as India --having to “put a pricetag on human life” He... View Details
- Career Coach
Beatriz Delorme
Bea has spent 4 years working at BCG prior to HBS and has is now focusing her career on the Climate space. She love to discuss career paths within the Climate & Sustainability area, and can help students think through which route makes more sense for the summer or... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
term for these relationships: guanxi. Guanxi literally means connections or relations, but also refers to the socio-emotional bond that ties people who do business together. Guanxi networks tend to have significant overlap between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
again the question framed so eloquently 70 years ago by Milton Friedman in his famous article, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” (Incidentally, Friedman made no reference to either short- or long-term... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them. The pandemic has laid bare and even exacerbated inequities in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
impact on the accounting standards under which the investee firms present their financial information; the only change is in the investor's familiarity with these standards. This suggests that differences in accounting standards affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2022
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Omobola Johnson
Omobola Johnson, the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria, discusses her transition into a venture capital career and highlights how venture capital enables young Nigerian entrepreneurs to address local challenges. View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
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Dr. Yusuf Hamied
Dr. Yusuf Hamied, Chair of the pioneering Indian generic drugs company Cipla, explains his objection to the patent monopolies of Western multinational companies, to whom he believes India should not be at the... View Details
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Brinda Somaya
Brinda Somaya, founder and principal architect of Somaya and Kalappa Consultants, talks about the restoration of earthquake-felled Bhuj village. View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
business leaders to respond to the demands of woke capitalism. Chugh is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches courses on leadership, management, and negotiations; her new book is A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to date. He returned to Red Lobster as CEO in 2014, and in this episode of Skydeck, I talk to him about the challenges and opportunities he saw, how to lead during times of change, and why social responsibility is so important to both him... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
For Profit and Nonprofit
doing for the greater good?’ And I actually think that being a banker has given me a platform to be even more impactful from a social justice or from a philanthropic standpoint. “Because I've been fortunate... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Supporting Students on Their Journeys
Fund, as well as donors who have established more than 700 named fellowship funds, have had a direct and deep impact on the lives of thousands of students. Such generosity has a tremendous ripple effect as the beneficiaries—and all who... View Details