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  • 09 Jul 2014
  • News

Changing the way governments and businesses tackle environmental challenges

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) talks about leading the World Wildlife Fund to engage with businesses and governments to make systemic changes to tackle environmental and animal welfare challenges. (Published July... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

Summing Up Crucibles of leadership are where you find them—or they find you. And business schools rarely create them, at least according to the respondents to the October column. Perry Miles put it most succinctly when he said, "A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Jun 2023

#HBSMixer: Houston College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School

Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School. This event will give you the... View Details
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

Our Mission & Team We are working with scholars, business leaders, and community leaders around the world to advance our understanding of business' role in society and to develop a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2025
  • News

New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

chance to meet other alumni, to engage with appreciative entrepreneurs, and to have fun.” Finding small business clients that want free expert business advice has not been a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the... View Details
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

game, now you have global opportunities. Being a family firm has mixed consequences for performance. Many of the practices in large Turkish business groups—the way they promote, the way they get engaged with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leadership Collaborative | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Peer Group of Mission Driven Leaders A new program of the Social Enterprise Initiative, the Leadership Collaborative is designed to connect and support alumni deeply engaged in social impact as a career. This community will serve as a... View Details
  • 2018
  • Book

Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time

By: Geoffrey Jones
Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our own lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides... View Details
Keywords: Green Business; Sustainability; Business History; Eco-tourism; Organic Wine; Organic Food; Waste Management; Sustainable Finance; Ethics; Finance; History; Entrepreneurship; Accommodations Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Energy Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Europe; Asia; Latin America; North and Central America; New Zealand
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  • 22 Jun 2023

#HBSMixer: San Francisco College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School

Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School. This event will give you the... View Details
  • Web

Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

many of the enterprises we study, in industries such as telecommunications, healthcare, consumer products, agribusiness, semiconductors, education, and automobiles. Course Overview This course prepares Harvard Business School students for... View Details
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

employee engagement and wealth creation. This analysis reveals critical insights for business leaders seeking to address workforce disengagement while creating more equitable wealth distribution models. Play... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

SUMMING UP Do We Need Business School Courses On Inclusion and ‘Voice’? Responses to this month’s column suggest that the issue it raised—recruitment of minority talent into business careers—was somewhat... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 27 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

I am incredibly grateful to have spent this past week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) aimed at introducing rising seniors to Harvard's MBA and, in all, exposing us to the impact of strong... View Details
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Chertavian, who also sits on the Social Enterprise Initiative’s Advisory Board. “Our country needs to embrace the fact that if we’re going to have a globally competitive economy, we must engage every one of our citizens.” In other words,... View Details
  • Web

Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

America, exploring their historical roots and socioeconomic impacts. The report discusses how these disparities affect education, labor markets, and government policies, and suggests approaches for businesses to address these issues. CEO... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

will be considered. The venture can be a nonprofit, for-profit or hybrid model. The venture can only be supported by one fellowship from Harvard Business School during the fellowship year. Preference is to fund full-time roles of... View Details
  • November 2017 (Revised September 2020)
  • Supplement

Miami's Tech Future (B): Building the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
In 2017, Miami was rated #1 among U.S. cities for startups, but about 40th for “scale-ups” – growth companies. This case shows how leaders of incubators and accelerators supported startups and a culture of entrepreneurship, but also describes some factors limiting... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Growth; Startup; Community Engagement; Community Impact; Community Relations; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Miami; Florida
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  • 27 Apr 2017
  • News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

tuition. “They said, ‘We’re not going to buy you a car but we are going to pay for your education.’ It wasn’t until I was older that I really understood the importance of that,” he says. An awareness of how challenging it is for students to be fully View Details
  • 2022
  • White Paper

Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
A significant number of American workers—44%—are employed in low wage jobs at the front line of industries. Despite undertaking some of the most tedious, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs, low-wage workers are—and have long been—the most likely to be overlooked by... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Labor Market; Low-wage Workers; Worker Welfare; Churn/retention; Morale; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Wages; Retention; Well-being; Human Resources
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