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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
the findings of the inaugural Harvard Impact Study, the University’s first effort to quantify the economic and social contributions of its alumni. HBS professor Josh Lerner led the study, which was based on a survey sent to almost 245,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A Commitment to Education
Spangler, former president of the University of North Carolina (UNC), is the namesake of HBS’s Spangler Center, the social hub of the School’s campus. It is a tangible reminder of his support of education, which ranges from HBS and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the front doors of those massive southern mansions? The colors signify membership in the city’s big social organizations. That one is purple, green, and gold—signifying that the homeowner is a member of Rex, an influential 143-year-old... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
how it works); illuminates the challenges of bringing billions of dollars in private capital to bear on social problems; identifies smart public policies that promote social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
and the social sciences. Bringing together leading scholars, the book is organized in four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. Capitalism, Democracy and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
media for support, creating a private Facebook group for entrepreneurs in 2017. What started as a group of 25 is now the 20,000-member Female Founders Alliance, a social purpose organization that provides guidance to founders and works to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
about building the better mousetrap,” he tells us. “Commercializing the better mousetrap is the key to success.” Take Hugh Hefner. The father of Playboy meets the transformative entrepreneur test by ushering in an era of social freedom... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset management activities, Guichard founded Gravitas View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
capital and labor, disconnecting business from society and posing conflicts between them. She advocates a new approach to leadership and corporate behavior in which companies exhibit, among other things, a common purpose, a long-term... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 02 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 List
annual list features “young entrepreneurs, activists, scientists and entertainers” from a wide diversity of categories, ranging from sports to venture capital to social impact. The HBS alumni featured... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
football, repair capitalism Business lessons for a global century Chocolates for a cause Safe water for millions Nature belongs to everyone Capitalize on the network The world at home Quiet your mind (Images... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
disease.” Early success in raising capital has allowed EAT to move from supporting existing research to a new model of proactive challenge grants. “We have so many areas of need that we are putting together large challenge grants to go... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
what guidelines might you suggest? —Norm Boone (MBA 1977) DITKOFF: At Bridgespan, we define impact investing as “investing capital to generate social impact in a way that also provides monetary returns.” As... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
criticism of its early social media marketing campaign targeting teens. Then Toffel, who is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, poses a tough question: “What should JUUL do now, given the pressure that it’s under... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
Investment in the inner city can reap social rewards, but there’s real money to be made as well, agreed panelists at the 32nd annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference. Named for Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), one of the School’s first African-American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — financial services, global View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
go-to-market projects in sectors ranging from social impact venture capital to artificial intelligence. “Having the chance to deepen my learning in such a hotbed of technological innovation, all while... View Details