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- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
alum Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) presented the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award to conservation power couple Paul J. Zofnass (MBA 1973), founder of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and his wife, Renee E. Ring, COO of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Jan 2017
- News
The American Food Paradox: Growing Obese and Going Hungry
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A for-profit View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
interface on the internet-- I ended up putting together with partners, the fun that seeded Twitter and invested in companies like TweetDeck and other social things, that got me very connected to a very View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
HBS, along with ten other business schools, has been recognized for its "cutting-edge programs incorporating societal-business issues" in a report issued by the World Resources Institute and the Initiative for Social View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
programs like FSNE that take aim at statewide food policies, large-scale food operations, and regional food infrastructures to spark the innovations that have already begun to move the region closer to that goal. One such program is with... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Recasting environmentalism as a smart financial investment
A former managing director and partner for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 24 years, Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) is inspired by the opportunity to help businesses, governments, and environmental organizations work together in new, innovative... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
“Lionrock is my revenge against addiction,” says Peter Loeb (MBA 1991), cofounder and chief executive of Lionrock Recovery, the largest online addiction recovery program in the US and Canada. “This venture is part of my healing.” A seasoned business View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
- News
Game-Changing Analytics
at multiple contact points, including ticket sales, retail transactions, digital communications, and social media,” notes Gelman, a former Crimson basketball star who also played professionally in Europe. She cites the Patriots’ launch a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
work. Hospitals have also largely been really focused on themselves: Where do we want to practice? How do we interact with one another? What medical records are most useful for billing? The exciting innovation in the industry is coming... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
firm, be part of its business strategy, and include the involvement of top management. Programs have to be innovative and effective and have a measurable impact on the people they are designed to serve. "Nearly five hundred nominations,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
QUITE SOME TRICK: Randal rendering an HBS classroom speechless, at least momentarily. Innovation and magic are kindred activities: Both can amaze and upend reality while introducing something new or totally unexpected, as if from nowhere,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners, winners of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
“ One unstated objective of science is to make a difference: to learn something, or make something, that changes the way people think or behave. Many of the biggest discoveries — the most important scientifically and the most consequential View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability
What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and compensation? Climate change and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
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as by the innovative technology that makes them possible. Companies must learn to build and foster these relationship networks because they engender speedy and seamless interaction, encourage creativity and collaboration, and release the... View Details