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- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
processes, as well as the challenges and opportunities it presents for individuals and society.” Related Reading: 'Hybrid' Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions What do you... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Gordon Ross
Even as an undergraduate majoring in economics in Scotland, Gordon Ross had been fascinated by causality. “I’ve always enjoyed seeing how different things relate in the world,”... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
machines to cars. The story of Sunil Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) illustrates the challenges entrepreneurs faced in the years before the government loosened its regulatory hold on business. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
The pandemic has served as a wake-up call on many fronts, but to Anne Ackerley (MBA 1988), managing director and head of the Retirement Group at BlackRock, it has focused a particular spotlight on the retirement crisis in the United... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
LERNER: The federal government lacks a clear, rational process for spending $40 billion to boost the nation’s clean-tech industry. Across the decades and around the globe, governments have tried various approaches to kick-starting entrepreneurial activity. View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
make." In addition to process improvements, other changes had an impact on this year's dialogue. For example, this time a greater number of entrepreneurs took part, and they introduced new variables into the... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars of capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
municipalities favoring green bonds. “One way to make them more appealing to issuers is to offer them at more favorable terms,” Baker says. “If I’m an entrepreneur or state government and I have to choose between a project that is green... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
annual contest among budding entrepreneurs here at HBS, were awaiting the arrival of software being designed in India that would allow them to demonstrate smoothly-functioning Web sites important to their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
best practices in varying scenarios. Raymond Porch Manager of Diversity Programs at Boston Public Schools Participating in the student discussions was empowering. It ignited a drive within me to learn and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Himalayan climbing team, the executive director of an innovative low-income senior housing community, and the founder of a pioneering youth basketball program for girls. Examples of “fixing it” also come from the journeys of entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
work at the Harvard i-lab on his first entrepreneurial venture. Here, one entrepreneur asks another for advice on that aha moment, the HBS network, and keeping your perspective. OW: After graduation you went into real estate. What made... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
60 percent of successful applications. About 40 percent of H-1B recipients between 2000 and 2005 came from India, while 10 percent came from China. Once the worker has migrated, the immigrant is essentially locked in with the firm until... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
led in the development of the i-lab, which will also serve as a community resource for residents of the surrounding Allston neighborhood. Curriculum innovation for second-year MBAs brings the introduction of... View Details