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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
and we have impact in thousands of communities with millions of children around the world who are largely vulnerable and left out of key health and education systems. “We do what I would call the ‘building blocks of life’: clean water,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
social service organizations through their family foundation. “There comes a responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it,” says Klarman. Robert Kraft, MBA 1965 Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- November 2011
- Article
The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
This report examines the concept of integrated reporting and its current state of adoption around the globe. It also discusses the benefits to both companies and society and recommends ways boards can help their organizations accelerate the implementation of integrated... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Social Issues; Global Range; Adoption
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting." Director Notes (The Conference Board) (November 2011).
- November 1992 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Advertising Council Earth Share Campaign: Strategy, Execution, and Final Campaign
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jayne D. Kramer
In the several years preceding 1992, there had been a dramatic rise in the public's concern for environmental issues. Yet the Roper Organization reported that fewer than one in ten Americans made personal efforts to help solve environmental problems on a regular basis.... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Research; Environmental Sustainability; Welfare
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Jayne D. Kramer. "Advertising Council Earth Share Campaign: Strategy, Execution, and Final Campaign." Harvard Business School Case 593-062, November 1992. (Revised April 1995.)
- Web
Olivia Wenzel | MBA
community of students, alumni, and faculty, who share my passion for technology and social impact, but whose perspectives are informed by diverse backgrounds and application areas. Tech areas of interest: Elder Tech, Health Tech, View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
staff nearly 6 million meals per year. Through a multi-year grant, the school has developed new relationships with local growers, processors, and distributors and funded educational and marketing efforts to create an engaged campus community. Beyond the campus, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
Photography by Neal Hamberg If your middle-school science class is studying New England’s green crab population, chances are you’ll get a lot more excited about the origin, life cycle, and environmental impact of this remarkable invasive... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
that combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
that combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
colleagues highlights the pivotal role played by such gatherings in creating winners and losers in the platform world. “Platform Diffusion at Temporary Gatherings: Social Coordination and Ecosystem Emergence,” published in Strategic... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in CPG and Retail
(RILA): Sustainability & Environment Sustainability efforts at RILA include addressing the retail industry's environmental compliance obligations and "broader impact areas and efforts to address those... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
social causes that have played a prominent role in his life since the late 1960s, when he served briefly as a speechwriter in Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. It was in those turbulent years that Dunphy, with fellow members of... View Details
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Ameel Somani
developing world and the types of investment products that have the greatest impact on the poor." To continue his education, Ameel plans on working in private equity after graduation "ideally for a globally focused fund.... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- News
Making a Difference
#HBSMakingADifference Every day, HBS alumni are embodying the School's mission as "leaders who make a difference in the world." Please join us in celebrating this remarkable impact by sharing your story with the HBS alumni community. In... View Details
Keywords: The Harvard Campaign
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
and wellness company dedicated to helping people do what they love – better and for longer. Now they both are key leaders in the growing company that is making a positive impact on athletes around the world. Building a Winning Strategy... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
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fight climate change United Planet to support the growth of its Virtual Exchange Program Empowered to Educate to scale and spread the impact of its fellowship program for women educators The Bantwana... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details