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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
to hone and manifest to become a powerful, impactful leader no matter where you work. She also examines the key traits of being a transformational leader, focusing on the gaps she has seen in leadership that could impede or damage any... View Details
- 13 May 2016
- News
Making Big Donations to Change the World
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences on the global economy. In his... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
generates electricity as it rolls—“[a] project that makes the world a better place.” Cofounder and CEO of Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City that creates a line of socially beneficial play-based products, she was on Forbes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship
comes to HBS with a passion for education and three years of social enterprise experience. Most recently, she served as the new schools development associate at The SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with urban communities to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
BARCOTT: Pledges to pay back donors in “service and deeds.” I am here tonight to thank all the donors who believe in the promise that the students in this room represent,” Rye Barcott (MBA ’09) told the nearly 550 people gathered in early April to celebrate the View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
“What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social impact?” —MIKE FEERICK (MBA 1993) “What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
history of the consumer economy I’ve read. Trentmann takes us through the sweep of history, and it’s a fascinating treatise on the arc of the consumer and the impact on society. At over 800 pages of extra-small print, it’s a lot to... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
Kundu is thrilled to be able to have such a significant and sustained impact on so many people. “I fully appreciate the opportunities I’ve had, and the good luck and good fortune,” he says. “Being born in the US, starting a company—all... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
exhausting days of my life. Suicide is incomprehensible on some level, especially when the individual concerned has all the external indicators of success and accomplishment. What we do understand is that one in four Americans has a diagnosable mental illness, and... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
in the rural areas of Georgia hit hardest by the epidemic. Fresh from a meeting with Georgia’s attorney general, business leaders, and law enforcement officials, Shaw told Langford about a presentation made by tech billionaire and philanthropist Tom Siebel. Struck by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
national and international artists, expand the marketing efforts, and make a bigger impact in the battle against domestic violence.” Brown and Dietz signed on, and HBS faculty members Michael Watkins and Max Bazerman agreed to be their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
am planning to reread. A recent surprise for me was Houdini, His Life and Art...I couldn’t put it down. Houdini was just a relentless genius in so many ways. Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development. What’s on your list? I enjoy books that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform that collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context and then assesses its impact... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
they apparently do not look solely to the wooing of ocean travelers for the large gains they expect to make in the future. —Edited by Garry Emmons Nancy F. Koehn Nancy Koehn is an authority on the social and economic View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
while Khanna was studying emerging markets in the 1990s through applied math and the analytical social sciences. It was Nitin Nohria, before his tenure as Dean, who noticed the overlap and suggested they put their heads together. “When we... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play... View Details
- 26 May 2016
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Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
organization. “When we launched Bridgespan, the phrases ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘venture philanthropy’ did not exist. We took a page out of Bain & Company’s book about how to add value, customizing it for the social sector to create... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young