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November 2022
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Goonj: Growing in the Face of a Pandemic

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Priyank Narayan

Founded by the husband and wife team of Anshu and Meenakshi Gupta in 1999, Goonj had quickly emerged as one of the leading disaster relief and rural development organizations in India. Their main mode of development was through providing a clothing kit to the village... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Management; Family Business; Natural Disasters; Social Issues; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business and Community Relations; Strategy; India

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October 2019
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Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé

To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States

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12 Jun 2023
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

build connections with members of the community that I was able to be myself with. Putting on a “straight face” all week while we discussed cases and worked on problem sets could be exhausting; it was with the group from HBS PRIDE that I... View Details

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

the power of Zoom and similar communication technologies. The advent of these technologies has really shrunk distance,” he says. Ultimately, Choudhury hopes that leaders realize that nonstop flights could overcome temporal barriers and... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

17 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS START Week?

students’ next two years. We structured START around the three pillars at the foundation of successful student life: (1) personal and (2) professional development and (3) a strong community to facilitate said development. START affords... View Details

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

many of its funds as mid-size. Shifting to a majority mid-sized fund designation might confuse the investment community that now associated Brown Capital with its winning small-company strategy. What’s more, their mid-sized company fund... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

and on the external situation (e.g., a rise in cases), and communicate this to your employees. 3. If a solution works, share it. If a manager finds a remote/flex arrangement that works for one person on the team, share it with others.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Companies: social responsibility

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16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

collections of local HBS alumni. We also took a trip to New York to see the Armory Show and visit artists’ studios, and hosted a community event called Slideluck that featured work by local artists and an en masse potluck dinner. We have... View Details

16 Nov 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Boston

Starting last fall and continuing through this coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On November 8, more than 170 alumni and guests gathered in Klarman Hall to hear the dean discuss how the School is addressing today’s... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

strategies, leading them to overinvest in the near term," says Baxter. Senior management can provide valuable top-down guidance here by using three- to five-year strategic plans to define the boundaries of these discussions and then making sure they're clearly... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The Social Enterprise Initiative has long supported students and alumni starting organizations with a social impact focus. Our curriculum, career support, community building, and funding supports students in exploring social... View Details

01 Jul 2009
Working Paper Summaries

File-Sharing and Copyright

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Koleman Strumpf; Technology; Entertainment & Recreation

September 2022
Article

Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality

By: Valeria Giacomin and Geoffrey Jones

This article discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States, and has... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy; Foundations; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Values and Beliefs; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East

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July 2020
Background Note

Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway

By: Aiyesha Dey

The issue of gender diversity on boards has received increased attention in U.S markets over the past few years. In 2018, California introduced a law which required boards of U.S-listed firms with headquarters in California to include at least one female director by... View Details

Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Decisions; Gender; Diversity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Norway; United States

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16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

bolster important communication skills and build up a base level of confidence needed to address large audiences, a valuable “real world” skill. Given that as an introvert I prefer a slower pace and value reflection (extroverts tend to... View Details

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Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

Shane Greenstein, Prithwiraj Choudhury & Zoe Cullen 24 Feb 2025 USA Today Musk’s DOGE Email Ripped from Private Sector Playbook, Says Harvard Expert Re: Joseph Fuller 19 Feb 2025 The Project on Workforce Data and Technology in Action: View Details

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Cait Haught

With a mother who taught 8th-grade math and a father who practiced orthopedic surgery in a county hospital, Cait Haught grew up with a commitment to service. "Since I was small, my parents instilled in me that whatever I do should make the world a better... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

left But an agenda that increases the rewards of work, encourages stable, engaged families and promotes healthy community institutions could be a shared political enterprise." Is wealth distribution a problem cause or symptom? What... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Article

Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis

By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak

A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details