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Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (Executive Education, Faculty Chair)

This Executive Education course, an HBS Social Enterprise Initiative program, is designed to maximize the contributions of individual nonprofit board members. Participants are challenged to examine their role and the role of their boards in improving organizational... View Details

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By: Thomas J. DeLong

I'm currently studying how global organizations organize talent management systems in order to maintain and enhance the performance of professionals. I'm also interested in the socialization process of organizations based on size and focus of the... View Details

24 Jan 2017
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Call to Create Jobs, or Else, Tests Trump’s Sway

06 May 2025
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Harvard’s Jason Furman on Big Tech Regulation

23 Apr 2019
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The New Venture Competition Student & Alumni Journeys

21 Apr 2008
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Tarun Khanna Examines Entrepreneurial Forces Driving China and India

09 Jul 2021
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Three Ways Employers Can Best Support Caregivers Returning To Work

12 Feb 2025
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Who owns it? The Ownership Project on how property rights shape business

Lynda M. Applegate

Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School. She has also played a... View Details

24 Apr 2019
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HBS New Venture Competition Features World Changing Ideas

23 Jul 2013
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Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

May 2017 (Revised April 2020)
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Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman

By: Geoffrey Jones and Snigdha Sur

This case examines the career of Raj Kapoor, the legendary Bollywood filmmaker of the postwar decades. It explores how Kapoor built RK studios after 1948 by releasing a series of movies that combined romance with social messages focused on the fate of the common man in... View Details

Keywords: Film Entertainment; History; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Gender; Problems and Challenges; Values and Beliefs; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India; Soviet Union

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businesses afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the economy? In a case study, Paul Gompers explores the challenges a social justice startup encounters in helping the formerly... View Details

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Sales Skills Everyone Needs

Are you a sales professional looking to break through the noise? Could you use some insight into leveraging social dynamics and modern persuasion techniques? Whether you are a seasoned sales rep looking to sharpen your skills, or an entrepreneur looking to unravel... View Details

24 Jun 2019
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Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise

related to your family business Nurture an entrepreneurial mindset across generations Understand best practices for managing family wealth, from estate planning to ensuring equity across branches of the family Balance family control with professionalization and growth... View Details

2008
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Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

By: Peter Tufano

We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Income; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Performance Effectiveness

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