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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial success with social View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
will be ice-free every summer. The response Payne hears to this warning from potential funders and partners is different than it was even five years ago. “You don’t need to explain to people the severity of the problem,” Payne says. As he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
In response to the widening coronavirus outbreak in China and globally, HBS alumni are launching efforts intent on supporting the crisis relief efforts to Wuhan and other parts of China. One alumni group, calling itself the Wuhan Task... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
responsibility, who, with a number of business executives, died in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia. The President discussed his idea with several business leaders, who then approached The Conference Board because they knew of its work on corporate View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
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Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) launched Hope and Comfort out of his Boston-area garage in 2011 to address the issue of hygiene insecurity in Massachusetts. "If you don't have basic hygiene products, it's very hard to stay clean, healthy, and confident," he explains. "No one... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
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HBS Alumni Named to 2022 Worthy 100
Several HBS alumni have been named to Worth magazine's 2022 Worthy 100, a collection of people "who have made the most significant impact on the world this year." The HBS alumni honored include Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966); Citi CEO Jane Fraser (MBA 1994); Boundless CEO... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) aims to put himself out of business. “That’s the real goal,” says the founder of Hope and Comfort, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that distributes basic hygiene products. Feingold estimates that, in Massachusetts alone, there are a million... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Start of Coronavirus Vaccine Testing
- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
Offering an update of their statement on “the purpose of a corporation”, the Business Roundtable, an influential group of some of America’s top chief executives, noted that “we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”—and not just their shareholders.... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
Michael Traill’s (MBA 1987) change-of-life moment came early one sleepless Saturday morning in 2001. He found himself staring at the clock, which read 5:56 a.m., unable to sleep, too troubled by the plight of a boy he was coaching on his son’s Aussie Rules football... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
Three years ago, Minnie Ingersoll pressed her career coach with a basic query: What does a COO actually do? After 12 years at Google, Ingersoll had cofounded the online car marketplace Shift in 2013, taking on the unfamiliar role. “I don’t think it’s obvious,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
recent poll by the Investor Responsibility Research Center, the average dollar value of stock held by directors of companies with stock ownership guidelines (only 20 percent of the sample!) was roughly $175,000 in 2004, although how that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit organization focused on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015): Unlike start-ups of years... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
topic of the conference could not have been better, and the response by both the presenters and the audience far exceeded expectations. “We needed something positive,” says Kovacs, an angel investor and former CEO and cofounder of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
Matching nonprofits with companies that can help
Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), CEO of Executives Without Borders, talks about helping match nonprofits with socially responsible companies. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
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Keeping an Eye on Things
combating terrorism. “We are responsible for maintaining a gallery of biometric information and then performing the matching and the analysis, sometimes within milliseconds. And we do know that much of the work that we do verifying does... View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My... View Details