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- 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA
can upgrade local infrastructure and support business growth.” “It was a good outcome for all of us,” Scharfman adds. Although it is a separate venture, these days Scharfman also is excited about the potential of the Fresh Cheese Company,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
has drawn on the knowledge of 1,200-plus MBA volunteers from 20 schools to help small businesses and nonprofits navigate challenges through the pandemic. “There’s a history of student involvement with large corporations, but small View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
AMABILE: A decade of research shows that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. After thirty years of research, I am still passionate about creativity,” says Teresa M. Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
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Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks of View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
purposes. They can provide effective and efficient services, but they have a short-term focus and, appropriately, go where the money is. After all, that is their obligation to their stockholders." Herzlinger noted that, unlike business... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
corporate divisions before becoming an executive vice president. During her twelve years with the company, Marshall was a key player in Sallie Mae's transition from a lender-services business into a business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
CEO about as tough as it ever has been. Companies need world-class efficiency, constant innovation, and a customer orientation. This requires a group of talented, dedicated people working as a team across business units and country... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
efforts of the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
By the time I got around to researching our latest case, he was the CEO of the entire enterprise or ‘mothership,’ as they call it in Cleveland.” Symbiosis “One of the purposes of this case is to look at globalization and how to get the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online) is a for-profit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Khanna says. Their shared interest developed into the Creating Emerging Markets project, which launched in 2012 and includes a catalog of interviews with leaders from all over the developing world who have built enterprises that have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs to strip away the differences between startups that grow into multibillion-dollar enterprises and those that disappear altogether. Here, Yeh talks about the techniques outlined in their new book,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
HBS Business Plan Contest. As outgoing Dean Jay Light said at the April awards ceremony, “The Business Plan Contest has become an important part of the HBS curriculum,” and its participants have created an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
Business and business leaders are now being called upon to solve more social problems, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010). Segneri, who worked on public- and social-sector innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
For many entrepreneurs, the inspiration for starting a business is rooted in personal experience. An enterprise is born not just to fill a neglected market niche but a personal need as well. Such is the case... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned from Russia in 1998 with his adopted baby girl, Christina, another child remained in his thoughts: a blue-eyed little boy named Andrew left behind in the orphanage. “He’s in my mind today,” says Taylor.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken