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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Technology Making HBS More Accessible

Deborah (MBA 1987) and Steve (MBA 1986) Quazzo Deborah (MBA 1987) and Steve (MBA 1986) Quazzo believe in the mission of Harvard Business School. “Educating leaders who will have a positive impact on their communities throughout the world... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World

professional background in health tech. He mentioned that the venture capital firm, General Catalyst, he worked for before school had just invested in a trans telehealth company. My jaw must have dropped on the sidewalk. I had thought it... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Funding His Purpose

need to purchase the equipment necessary to provide treatment. Letelier wanted to offer loans—which would not require the same outcomes that many grant-makers look for—to help such an organization expand, reaching more people and recouping the View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Insatiably Curious

experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from technology to... View Details
  • February 1998
  • Case

Creating the International Trade Organization

By: David A. Moss, George R. Appling and Andrew D Archer
In the late 1940s, officials at the U.S. State Department began campaigning for the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, cartels, and commodity... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agreements and Arrangements; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Systems; International Relations
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Personal crises inform a life’s work

One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast Cancer... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

in which they live and work,” said Susan Gilbert, Robert K. Kraft Family Director, MBA Financial Aid. “Embodying the School’s mission to create leaders who make a difference in the world, their contributions to serving those in need make... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report

2.8 percent to a total of $294 million. Commenting on the results, HBS chief financial officer Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) notes, “The combination of tight fiscal discipline and renewed revenue growth across the School allowed us to make important View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

BEI’s associate director: “Lynn’s experience and expertise, passion and commitment, and problem-solving orientation, make her uniquely poised to lead BEI at this critical juncture.” Jennifer is pleased to pass the torch to Lynn: “Lynn will take great strides toward... View Details
  • Profile

Matt Oppenheimer

Since college, Matt Oppenheimer's career choices have been guided by two passions: the "fast-paced and results driven" environment of investment banking and the social mission of nonprofits. Matt... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Recognizing Volunteers and Donors

particularly grateful to alumni who invest annually in HBS leadership and innovation through the Dean's Fund. Jeanette and Herb Evert have demonstrated their passion for the mission of HBS by making... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

What is the HBS Latin America Club?

discussions that range from politics, private equity investing and entrepreneurship. This has become a tradition at HBS and a great opportunity, not only to promote the region, but also to reflect on the future challenges we need to... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

We begin a new academic year at Harvard Business School in the midst of a fascinating and compelling time in the history of business. In keeping with the mission of the School — to educate leaders who will make a difference in the world —... View Details
Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

An Authentic Leader

meeting the expectations of security analysts. What’s wrong with focusing on the short term? If you do it long enough, it will destroy long-term value. You stop investing in R&D, stop being innovative, stop expanding sales forces, stop... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

Importantly, determining a country’s standing on these criteria is judged not by the MCC but by outside parties such as the WHO and the Heritage Foundation. Once selected, partner countries must submit proposals indicating specifics about how they intend to View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Building New Connections

planning. Narayandas also helped lead the HBS Campaign to a successful conclusion as the largest campaign in business school history, raising $1.4 billion in support of the School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

that Serafeim organized as part of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Read more about Advancing the Mission Serafeim’s interest in Apple’s approach on circular economic models led to the case study “Apple’s iPhone Revolution:... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
  • 2022
  • Book

Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

By: George Serafeim
The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

We not only... View Details
Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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Hrithik Bansal Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2022
  • News

Holding Business to Account

financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s acquisition, she founded Boston Common Asset Management, in 2003. By the fall of 2020, Boston Common had $3 billion under management and a mission to be, as... View Details