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01 Mar 2005
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Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts

activities and to facilitate new work that will enhance our understanding of this important field.” “Our main goal is to increase our critical mass in this field by fostering a community of faculty, researchers, students, and alumni that will have an View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
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Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)

By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh

In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details

Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations

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2010
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Civil Society - Business Relations

By: James E. Austin and Alnoor Ebrahim

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Business and Community Relations; Business Ventures; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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01 Mar 2020
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Becoming a Better Corporate Citizen

15 Jul 2020
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Making Corporate Boards More Effective - Virtual

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Teams | New Venture Competition

technological innovation with social and economic impact The Paal Manali Jain (MPP 2025) Shivam Johri Enabling smallholder women farmers to harness the full potential of livestock farming Zest Health Darren... View Details

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

relationship with them is important." Hayley Blunden That’s a problem, since rubbing powerful colleagues the wrong way could impact “every aspect of one’s career, from opportunities for promotion to abilities to develop one’s network to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

this space? And when businesses generate strong financial returns, does it come at the expense of social impact --- can business play a significant role in addressing social... View Details

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

on your basic love of the domain, however. It also depends on the social environment. This discovery, I think, is the most important contribution that my research has made. The work environment you're in, or the school environment you're... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2012
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Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

regular reunion attendee, class volunteer, and a past member of the HBS Visiting Committee, Tisch currently serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. His strong interest in strategic philanthropy led him to get involved with the School’s View Details

10 Aug 2015
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Support for the Healers

currently run Schwarz Rounds in the UK. Point of Care offers Sandford the chance to use her business experience to maximize the impact of a small nonprofit with a large mission. “We're engaged in a space where we have a chance to... View Details

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2011
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How Great Companies Think Differently

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the actions of most corporations, constraining them to focus on maximizing short-term... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; Social Issues; Competitive Advantage

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September 2010 (Revised August 2011)
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A Chronology of Integrated Reporting

By: Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus

This technical note traces the development of integrated reporting through published materials, research, and the formation of various committees. Readers will gain an understanding of how the topics of nonfinancial information, sustainable development, corporate... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Disclosure; Product Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues

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27 Jan 2023
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Turning Up the Volume

plates. There is a lot of instability; let’s just get the basics done,” she told the board and senior leadership at LEDA. “However, I’ve also heard your desire to make an impact and grow. And if you want to do that, then we will walk... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

sector's tilt toward short-term financing was merely the industry responding to a lack of available government debt instruments, such as short-term risk-free Treasuries, that were much in demand by investors during the global savings glut. So investors purchased... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

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Olivia Zhao

mined from a day on the diamond. “I’ve loved baseball since I was a very small child,” she says. “I also have played softball all my life—currently I’m on the Harvard health policy team. Whether watching or playing, sports are a social... View Details

25 Sep 2017
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Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

Source: Delpixart There’s a general consensus that Washington is “broken.” But the reason politics doesn’t seem to deliver for citizens anymore may not involve who’s in the White House, which party controls Congress, or even any inherent flaws in the political system.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

March–April 2016
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Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing

By: Christopher Marquis, Michael W. Toffel and Yanhua Zhou

Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that limit firms' use of... View Details