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  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

All in a Day's Work

applicable are skills learned at HBS for recent graduates facing real-world challenges? What are the differences and similarities for alumni who work in the private and nonprofit sectors, in large corporations vs. smaller organizations?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate
  • 04 Aug 2020
  • News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

member, ed tech veteran, and current cofounder and managing partner of Ethical Ventures, a management consultancy dedicated to social enterprises. In its first month, the Business for Racial Equity Pledge was signed by more than 1,000... View Details
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Introduction - The Product - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

that can be applied to both corporate strategy and disaster planning. "I would advocate that risk managers should, and in some cases do, take responsibility for those kinds of questions," she says. "It's... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • 07 Jul 2016
  • News

Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa

agriculture, poultry production, and savings and lending services. In December 2015, it “graduated” its first three villages in Senegal. “They reached self-sufficiency, which is the holy grail of this work,” says Ruhr, a former corporate... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • News

Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019

Alumnae Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009) and Aileen Lee (MBA 1997) were selected for the Time 100—the magazine’s annual list of most influential people. Jennifer Hyman (photo by George Etheredge) Jennifer Hyman (photo by George Etheredge) Hyman is the cofounder and CEO of... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

Summing Up Judging from responses to the January column, the debate concerning reform of the social security system in the U.S. will take many directions before the question can even be framed adequately. If... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
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Sealed tight in sanitary packages - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)

last year for a Social Enterprise Initiative event. Sitting at a table with several women who were current MBA students, I was surprised when they introduced themselves to each other. When I was at HBS, there were only fifty women on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • August 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Global Business School Network

By: Christopher Marquis and Rwitwika Bhattacharya
The mission of the Global Business School Network (GBSN) is to strengthen business education for the developing world. The organization was transitioning out of its startup phase and wants to shift its focus from capacity building activities driven by the organization... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Business Education; Development Economics; Globalization; Global Strategy; Education Industry
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  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

subordinates, bosses, peers, and others, all of whom make relentless and often conflicting demands. "You really are not in control of anything," says one new manager. Another misconception is that new managers are responsible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Core Body of Knowledge - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

is to progress in an orderly evolution, is for socially-minded business men. I am convinced that this social need is the sole basis which justifies our ancient university . . . in entering upon business training.” Dean Wallace B. Donham,... View Details
  • March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
  • Case

Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning: Overcoming Onshore Challenges to Offshore Wind

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders had to navigate the permitting process, numerous delays, and objections from stakeholders in three communities:... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Joint Ventures; Green Technology; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Massachusetts; Martha's Vineyard; New Bedford; New England
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  • September 2011 (Revised September 2015)
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Hassina Sherjan

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Pippa Eccles
Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a non-profit... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Innovation Leadership; Development Economics; Growth and Development; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Afghanistan; United States
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Wine & Cuisine Society | MBA

Wine & Cuisine Society The mission of the Wine and Cuisine Society (WCS) is to promote good living through the enjoyment of fine wine and cuisine. The WCS is focused on providing both educational and social activities in a convivial yet... View Details
  • August 1993
  • Case

Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Nitin Nohria and Norman Klein
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Social Enterprise
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

September 2021 Alumni Books

moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy | MBA

alcohol or drugs, or with an open container of alcohol. Responsible Social Events Harvard Business School expects students, faculty, and staff in leadership roles (e.g., club presidents or program chairs) to... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path Ahead

There will be a tax to long-term shareholder value, but the trade-off is that it might elevate our societies. In India, for instance, the Companies Act requires Indian companies to spend 2 percent of their profits on corporate View Details