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Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business Background Making a difference in the world, as cliché as it sounds, is a fundamental value that drives my career. My father practiced traditional oriental medicine where there is... View Details

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated instances. As most View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

best innovations: Find and fill an important unmet customer need. Plan for profitability. Strive for sustainability. Establish credibility. Gather necessary resources. Lead and manage effectively. Maintain balance and learn to enjoy the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

physics, medicine, and other disciplines; they study business issues through new lenses and bring a wider range of methodologies to their research. This is a crucial aspect of what makes HBS unique; it means we can bring all these perspectives to bear on View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 9

Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

going to produce top-tier investment returns.” Exporting VC Dollars Nor is it enough to focus exclusively on the United States. “When I got into this business in 1979, deals were done in Boston and Silicon Valley and hardly anywhere else,” recalls Felda Hardymon, a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

nonprofit leaders today," says Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim, a member of the School's General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Initiative who focuses on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

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Teams | New Venture Competition

Christian Vosbikian (MBA 2025) Leora Sutton (MBA 2025) Providing virtual patient support as an extension of existing women’s health practices EcoLens Safiyah Bharwani (MBA 2025) Emily Tench (MPA 2025) Reducing food waste & emissions with... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron

Xerox as manager of multinational projects in 1979. Six years later, fate intervened again. Practically en route to the hospital to deliver her long-awaited first child, she received a telephone call: Rukia... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

of guidelines to help standardize the organization of these important events. Information Technology With a goal of developing a virtual alumni community, this committee is looking at practical ways in which technology can reinforce the... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

The New “In” Crowd

graduates develop new social ventures. The sum here is greater than the individual parts. Behind the numbers of conference attendees and fellowship recipients is a shift in attitude and understanding. Social enterprise isn’t about charity work or handouts. It’s about... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 1998
News

New Releases

business? Howard Raiffa, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, at HBS, is a pioneer in the development of decision and negotiations analysis. In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions,... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers

creation tactics, the club uses small-group strategy sessions led by trained career coaches to guide members through the job search process. “It’s a practical yet sophisticated approach to the job hunt,” said Angela Piscitello (MBA 1995),... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

nation, Keloharju believes the findings are generalizable to other countries, including the United States. Widely cited for its management practices, Sweden has 24 companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest companies in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and the September 11th Fund. We asked Wei-Skillern to discuss the book and its practical applications for business leaders. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you and your coauthors write this book?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m currently organizing a teach-in for the company View Details

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

stay-at-home mom, and was the first person in his family to go to college. He went to Kansas State University on a football scholarship, but was injured during a spring practice in his sophomore year. That led him, in what seems to be his... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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