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- 01 Nov 2018
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Earning Potential
Sion Tesone (OPM 43, 2013) is the founder & CEO of Amani Enterprises, LLC, which operates the for-profit social enterprise TISSINI. In this interview, he talks about TISSINI’s aims to empower Hispanic women through friend-to-friend retail... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Research Online
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Getting Smart About Philanthropy
Social Impact, a three-month-long online series at www.HBR.org that will feature the latest thinking on social enterprise through blogs, articles, and webinars from global leaders in the field. In January,... View Details
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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
- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
I wonder how that anecdote was instructive to you. Steven Rogers: It was hugely impactful on how I view the circumstances, and that is—like Malcolm X and I learned from him—that you must be prepared for teachable moments and those... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
impact in business and society. This effort is amplified by HBS’s Racial Equity Plan, which calls for the School to attract additional Black talent to all parts of the community and that has, in turn, inspired new efforts by the MBA... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion
"bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Related Links Sizing Up Social Impact A Healthy Profit Making Change Bringing It Back Home Opening the Door... View Details
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
the foundations of our social safety net—making it easier, for example, for people to apply for food assistance or for probation officers to communicate with their parolees. On today's episode of Skydeck, Ingersoll talks with contributor... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, India’s largest biopharmaceutical company, explains how her firm developed over four years a new technology for making insulin, an essential... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
need to seek medical care, although cultural differences still persist. “One man called us in the middle of the night and said, ‘I need a lady now.’ To him, that was an emergency, to us it wasn’t,” Changavalli laughs. Raju has been a strong backer of corporate View Details
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Ghassan E. Nuqul
Ghassan E. Nuqul, Chairman of the Nuqul Group, explains the origins of the Elia Nuqul Foundation in 2008, and discusses the group’s CSR projects in Jordan and elsewhere in MENA. View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Faculty Research Online
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Many companies preach and practice corporate social responsibility, but their efforts often lack an overall strategy that... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
equity and increase diversity and inclusion, Nohria strengthened core aspects of the HBS experience. The impact of these achievements on the School and on society at large will be felt for many years to come. To show appreciation for his... View Details
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The Corporate Conduct Continuum: From 'Do No Harm' to 'Do Lots of Good'
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Corporate Conduct Continuum: From 'Do No Harm' to 'Do Lots of Good'." Chap. 14 in The Virtuous Organization: Insights from Some of the World's Leading Management Thinkers, edited by Charles C. Manz, Kim S. Cameron, Karen P. Manz, and Robert D. Marx, 279–286. Singapore, New Jersey, and London: World Scientific, 2008.
- April 1996 (Revised December 2011)
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Responding to Market Failures
Broadly defines the concept of market failure and explores options for responding to it. It pays particular attention to the role of business leaders in addressing market deficiencies. View Details
Dees, J. Gregory. "Responding to Market Failures." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-344, April 1996. (Revised December 2011.)
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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
- 07 Feb 2018
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Helping Startups Give Back
“If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the... View Details