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Eric Chavez

authority to include social responsibility goals into business missions to have greater impact outside a P&L.” “The HBS faculty encourage us to see things from different perspectives, to see the... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech

19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future

Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,... View Details

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

29 Apr 2002
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Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight

to make informed decisions about treatment. To date, the Brain Tumor Network’s nurse navigators and social workers have helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag’s people-first ethos also guides the selection of the... View Details

Keywords: April White

09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2005
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Better than Cash

Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive director of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

05 Apr 2021
Blog Post

The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service

consider how involvement with The MBA Response can boost your resume and enable you to be interview ready with powerful stories of helping business owners. You get to pick the project(s) you work on, the timing is flexible, and you can do... View Details

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

Summing Up How will sustainability be achieved? To sum up responses to this month's column, the question is not whether global sustainability will be achieved but how. One school of thought could perhaps be characterized as enlightened... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social View Details

November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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Balancing Impact: Modeling the Future at British International Investment

By: Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd

In 2022, British International Investment (BII), the £8.1 billion development finance arm of the British government, implemented a new impact measurement system called the Impact Score to align its financial and impact objectives systematically. The tool was designed... View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Alignment; United Kingdom

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April 1991 (Revised November 1997)
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Levi Strauss & Co. and the AIDS Crisis

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Health Disorders; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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01 Sep 2004
News

Inside Executive Search

leading companies in the relevant industry sectors, then works to identify the managers most responsible for the success of the relevant business. We want to learn why a prospect may be an appropriate candidate before making the first... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services

November 2013
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GlaxoSmithKline in China (A)

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

Four GlaxoSmithKline employees were accused of bribing Chinese health care workers to prescribe the company's drugs. The accusations brought to light the questionable incentive structures of the Chinese health care system and the pressure on companies to adhere to... View Details

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August 2016
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HEINEKEN—Brewing a Better World (B)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, José Alvarez and Tonia Junker

This is a follow-up to the “HEINEKEN—Brewing a Better World (A)” case, with updated information on sustainability at HEINEKEN and some new initiatives. View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Corporate Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Food and Beverage Industry

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August 2021
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(Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement

By: Seray Ergane, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Andrew J. Hoffman

In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Perspective; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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01 Jun 2010
News

Volunteer Program Attracts ’09 MBAs

In response to high interest expressed last spring by graduates of the Class of 2009, HBS Alumni Relations has created a way for new MBAs to participate in key School initiatives and activities: the Young Alumni Ambassadors program. One... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

10 Mar 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

Thoren believes there doesn’t need to be a divide between for-profit and nonprofit missions. In December 2020, she joined outdoor-clothing brand Patagonia as director of Environmental Action and Initiatives, EMEA, a position that unites business goals and View Details

Keywords: April White

April 2009 (Revised January 2015)
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Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi and Aldo Sesia

"Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil rights activist and pioneer. Hooks' positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues

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