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- 04 Feb 2020
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Dr. Manu Chandaria
Manu Chandaria, Chair of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft, discusses how businesses should look at “profit as a means, not the end.” He assets that the purpose of profit is to improve the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Shamlu Dudeja
Shamlu Dudeja, founder of Malika’s Kantha Collection and Chair of SHE Foundation based in Kolkata, India describes how she reinvented the traditional sewing craft of kantha to make luxury and art products. She... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- Video
Ratan Naval Tata
Ratan Naval Tata, Chair of Tata Trust and Former Chair of Tata Group in India, explains his belief that corporations must become a part of, and engage with, the communities in which they operate.
View Details- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Most alumni gifts go to the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can spend immediately on both core priorities and new initiatives. Your gifts support the people and programs that have a tremendous impact on business... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Finance, scaling an impact investment in Anchorage, Alaska to become the state's largest permanent supportive housing program, and designing and launching an impact... View Details
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Adrian Gore
Adrian Gore, founder and Group Chief Executive of Discovery Limited, emphasizes the importance of supporting entrepreneurship as a means of solving socio-economic issues in South Africa. View Details
- 11 Sep 2020
- Video
James Mwangi
James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, explains that both international and state-owned banks failed to address the issue that 96 percent of the population had no bank accounts in post-colonial Kenya, and how Equity Bank was able to dramatically expand financial... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Video
Narayana Murthy
Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of the India-based software company Infosys, explains his belief that compassionate capitalism is the best solution to poverty, and makes the case for a broad stakeholder view of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Video
Leonor Melo de Velasco
Leonor Melo, who founded the Mundo Mujer Foundation (Women’s World Foundation) in Colombia in 1985, describes how her micro-finance NGO grew by building strong relations with its clients, and how it learned new... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects. To date, the BTN’s nurse... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
insurance, CDs, and transaction accounts for the poorest families are difficult to build and scale to the many millions of families who live below the poverty line. Let's use the dot.com dividend to solve this problem.— Peter Tufano... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
to Rohingya refugees since the violence in Myanmar erupted in August 2017. The organization considers the refugees’ mental health needs “acute.” "The global flow of goods and capital ties together all of human interaction." Relief agencies have tried to set... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
help to scale impact investing, if not bring it into the mainstream. The case is set two years after the acquisition. It describes impact investing, the founding of Imprint,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Michelle Lee
interested in social impact issues," Michelle joined Bain to "learn tangible business skills" and "explore the intersection of social View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
Above: Rickards on Jamaica’s sense of community: “It’s good to live in a place where the people are expressive and vibrant.” (photo by Marina Burnel) I had a strong sense when I was at HBS that the skills I learned there would have a bigger View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna