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- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
There I met with a representative from Education Pioneers, an organization that places MBAs into the education sector at public or charter school systems, departments of education, ed-tech companies, or other education-related... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
electricity sector with Professor Juan Alcacer; the capital stack with BEI director and conference co-chair Lynn Schenk and executive fellow Spencer Glendon; and leadership and climate action in cities with Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter.... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
particular use their talents flexibly; (3) encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Nonprofit Management ("Bringing It Back Home"), which draws nonprofit leaders from around the world to the HBS campus. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim teaches in the program; his research on quantifying results in the nonprofit sector... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a database of lobbying... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
facilitates digital consultations, reducing the cost and travel demands on ill patients. And it allows doctors and other medical experts to collaborate on complex cases in a virtual clinical environment. Jarzabek had seen the value of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
themed series in 2022 covered several angles of corporate decarbonization—from HP’s climate plan to startup BlocPower’s strategy to electrify and decarbonize buildings, Aspen Institute’s collaborative initiative to help decarbonize ocean... View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
in 2020-2022 seek their next round of funding. This environment creates headwinds for novel climate technologies as they fundraise for their first commercial-scale projects. While there isn’t a silver bullet to scaling these technologies, a few archetypes are emerging... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
interests align? Kash Rangan: At its core, the private sector has always been about value creation—producing goods and services valued by consumers, generating employment, and delivering profits for shareholders. Nothing has changed in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
count, patent count, and publication count, as well as their citations and the collaborative nature between funded and unfunded firms. Because randomization of the sample was not feasible, we address endogeneity around selection bias... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
decided to pursue my MBA as a senior in college after attending HBS’s Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP). Throughout college I interned in both nonprofits and tech, sectors in which attending business school was not as common or... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
featuring leaders from a diverse cross section of schools and businesses spanning the country. The case studies profile school leaders confronting a variety of challenges in urban, suburban, and rural public schools, as well as private,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
Log 9, which created an unprecedented opportunity to engage with other green tech pioneers from India, fostering a collaborative climate-focused atmosphere that was at the center of the entrepreneurship, climate tech ecosystem in... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
for an interest in the private sector and ultimately his decision to attend business school. Mbanusi founded and led an organizing initiative that aimed to connect youth to post-secondary opportunities and living wage jobs; part of a... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
it’s a profoundly diverse group committed to public service and interested in exploring how public, social, and private sectors can collaborate to create societal impact. I’m grateful to be part of the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse parts of HBS to both conduct research on the View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
systemic problems that lie beyond the capacity of any single social enterprise or organization. Gain insights into how different sectors can work together towards common goals, understanding the roles of policy, business, and non-profit... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’” View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg