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- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
research and work, in this case in the area of social enterprise and civic leadership, make a difference in the world. The support of alumni and friends advances this work. Through annual giving to the HBS Fund, donors are enabling and... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
a decent profit decently. Venture philanthropy, which applies principles of venture investing to social enterprises, has become a hot topic lately. Is venture philanthropy a good idea? The first generation... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Impact Reporting & Investment Standards (IRIS). And social impact bonds that use private investment to support... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
Reaching Out The first annual HBS Latino Alumni Association Southern Dinner, held in Dallas last fall, was more than a social occasion for outgoing club president Al Suarez (MBA 2005) and event organizer Eric Calderon (MBA 2013)—it was... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career researchers, making a long-term investment in the most promising scientists in the field. “The grants they provided are high-octane fuel,” says Dr. Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, and co-chairman of the Social Enterprise Initiative. “HBS educates leaders who make a difference in the world, and as the Leadership Fellows grow in their careers, their time with these... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
friendlier toward business and investors." Despite all his private-sector activity, Keshavjee spends the bulk of his time on philanthropy, earning numerous awards and commendations for his service. Honey Care Africa, just one of those View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household income, the medical and social... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
To date, HCA has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (nearly half are female), and is aiming to impact one million people by 2020. The social enterprise is now embarking on a massive View Details
- Profile
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
looking forward to in your career? The impact I can make. The ability to move things forward, to make change. For me, impact is not just about profits, but also the social... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select... 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
- February 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Burma Pipeline, The
By: Debora L. Spar and Lane LaMure
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely... View Details
Keywords: Political Risk; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Foreign Direct Investment; Energy Industry; Asia
Spar, Debora L., and Lane LaMure. "Burma Pipeline, The." Harvard Business School Case 798-078, February 1998. (Revised March 2000.)
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in their endeavors. This has guided her work as an entrepreneur... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
through teaching the course that I’ve come to believe that corporations have to think beyond their own boundaries to a broader concern with the health of the institutions on which we all rely. In the second year I taught the course with Clayton Rose, who had worked as... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan fiduciaries is to maximize investment returns.” Rather than hold CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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