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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research) 15 Dec 2024 | HBS Magazine Back at the Ranch Veterans are hungry for meaningful work; the ranching industry is desperate for good help. Ben Minden’s Bear... View Details

13 Aug 2021
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Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

Nimisha Ganesh is a Class of 2021 MBA graduate from Harvard Business School and the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of GenUnity, a civic leadership startup. Prior to HBS, she worked at Goldman Sachs... View Details

October 2024
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Sacoor Brothers: From Co-Family CEOs to No Family CEOs?

By: Lauren Cohen, David Ager and Alpana Thapar

Sacoor Brothers, a luxury clothing retail company, was founded in 1989 in Lisbon, Portugal, by four brothers—Malik, Salim, Rahimo, and Moez. After establishing a strong presence in Portugal, the brothers were drawn to the rapidly growing retail markets in the Middle... View Details

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08 Nov 2024
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Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association

Veterans Day, we checked in with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, the club on campus for student veterans. The mission of the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is to help talented veterans transition out of the military to Harvard View Details

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Annual Report 2024 | Harvard Business School

compared with $6.3 billion as of June 30, 2023. From the Chief Financial Officer Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Key Metrics More Key Metrics MBA 8,150 Applications 14 %... View Details

18 Oct 2016
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Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

companies including IBM, GE, Bath Iron Works, and L.L. Bean that recognize the link between healthy businesses and healthy communities. They are tapping into business’s unique resources to address community health challenges. Their... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

World Congress Center in Atlanta for a program called JA BizTown, where students learn business concepts and skills through a simulated economy in which they create and run a company. “We had a very rewarding JA day,” says Tom Mallory... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

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Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library

Harvard Business School Archives The HBS Archives contain records that document the history of Harvard Business School, faculty, research, teaching, and the student experience. The collections date from the... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

systemic change in K–12 education. Publications Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal April 2025 | Faculty Research In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details

23 Sep 2024
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2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details

25 Apr 2023
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How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come from many... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business

poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case study on Rakuten. “One day the idea just struck me: ‘Why don’t... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Leading a Family Business Course Number 1895 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Overview: Family businesses dominate the economies of most countries. According to research... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business

themselves fully heard and recognized.” This degree of openness is equally apparent when Lim describes the reasoning behind his application to HBS, where he has served as copresident of the Leadership & Ethics Forum. “It dawned on me that View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?

By: Debora L. Spar, Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao and Julia Comeau

At the end of 2023, the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel was mid-way through construction on an integrated steel plant in Northern Sweden that would use abundant local hydro power to create Europe’s first commercial-scale green steel. Their goal was to help European... View Details

Keywords: Steel; Green Business; Green Technology; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Renewable Energy; Steel Industry; Sweden

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26 Jun 2000
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What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

panelists went on to describe could not claim that ideal framework, the projects they described did identify niches and illuminate business issues that are already reshaping the health care field. Daniel D. Moriarty, Assistant Provost and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Mayor's Office City of Boston, Planning and Redevelopment Agency City of Cambridge City of Chicago Mayor's Office City of Detroit Mayor's Office City of Sacramento Mayor's... View Details

24 Jul 2019
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Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

choices are presented—can encourage people to change their behavior in pursuit of policy goals, says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details

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New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

for eligible graduate students across Harvard University to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous and supportive environment. Social Enterprise Track entries may include nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid model View Details

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