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  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I was watching CNN in the airport and saw graphic reports on the death of Alton Sterling, shot... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Off Script

red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance
  • 08 Jul 2014
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Seeking "big solutions" to increase the value of nature for business and society

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is leading the World Wildlife Fund to "connect the dots" between business and societal goals to increase our perception of the value of the natural world. (Published July 2014) View Details
  • 27 Jul 2016
  • News

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Margaret Crotty (MBA 2000) is CEO of Partnership with Children, which provides counseling services and family support to public schools in New York City. In this interview, she reflects on the influences that put her on this path. “Two of the biggest influences in my... View Details
  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

As chair of the public health committee in the Massachusetts legislature, state senator Jason Lewis (MBA 1995) focuses on promoting prevention and wellness. In this video, he talks about applying his business training to public policy work. “I've always been interested... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

The New Tech Meccas

When author and start-up vet Chris Schroeder (MBA 1992) attended a regional entrepreneurship conference in Dubai in 2010, the energy of the crowd was a revelation. "I could not get my head around the idea that this was coming from places like Mubarak's Egypt—places... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 02 Aug 2018
  • News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

whether it's smoking or alcohol or drugs. Back in the '80s, we had the war on drugs, and anyone who's of a certain age can remember the slogan, "Just say no." And there was also this ad from 1987. "OK, last... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Students Take Aim at Foreclosures

Last spring four HBS students traveled to Minneapolis to visit the nonprofit Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), which counsels people who are facing foreclosure on their homes. Meeting with HPF officials, the students discussed the nonprofit’s strategy,... View Details
Keywords: foreclosures; Real Estate
  • 29 Apr 2016
  • News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work... View Details
  • 2009
  • Book

Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Supercorp is based on a 3-year study involving more than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Opportunities; Welfare
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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

“A National System of Income Supplementation”

Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government commission concluded in 1967 that the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • August 2010 (Revised December 2016)
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Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan

By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Explores the challenges of female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan through the case of Kemeli Sediqi, who built a business under the Taliban, and founded a consultancy in 2004. The case positions Sediqi's experiences against the background of Afghanistan's turbulent... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Social Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Welfare; Gender; Afghanistan
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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Ideas against AIDS

CLAWSON AND VIRAVAIDYA: Early allies in the fight against AIDS. Photo courtesy Curtis Clawson In Thailand, anti-AIDS activist Mechai Viravaidya is known for getting not only Santas and tollbooth operators to hand out condoms, but traffic police as well, in a campaign... View Details
Keywords: AIDS & HIV; activism; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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Justine Murray

research surrounding questions of meaning, passion, and the relationship between money, time and wellbeing in professional settings, and I found that there were only a handful of researchers delving into these topics,” she says. “Quite a... View Details
  • 07 May 2025
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Scaling New Heights

Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers

simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest

as a means of reconciliation. To me, it was a startling idea. Spending some time in the rural villages and meeting with farmers themselves painted the picture for me. After the genocide, many villages’ lands had to be completely reconfigured as many families had been... View Details
Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

issues can be attributed to the dominant concern of business, namely economic performance. There is no villain or conspiracy here, but that's what makes it all the more important to be cognizant of the turn away from social View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

To The Rescue

access to immediate help in the event of a medical, police, or fire emergency. RAJU’S BRAINCHILD: In just two years, EMRI’s ambulances have delivered life-saving medical service to more than 11,000 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh.... View Details
Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information
  • 20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

lunching with a student mentee, strategizing with the director of a pre-K education program, or working on crisis management with city officials in the aftermath of a violent neighborhood incident. “Don’t ask me about my typical day,” he... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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