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- 31 Oct 2019
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Mohamed Jaffer
Mohamed Jaffer, Chairman of MJ Group, which is Kenya’s largest provider of cargo handling services, argues that business is “not safe in a castle if those around you live in shanties,” and points to the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Video
Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai, former head of HSBC India and founder of the India Sanitation Coalition, discusses the differences between the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.
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Shamlu Dudeja
Shamlu Dudeja, founder of Malika’s Kantha Collection and Chair of SHE Foundation based in Kolkata, India describes how the revival of the kantha craft in Bengal, India, has improved the lives of artisans,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
Asia," held at the Asia Business Conference on February 14 at Harvard Business School. Ever since the public outcry in the 1990s over the wages paid by Nike to its Asian factory workers, the issue of multinational corporate social... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
As president of Eos Foundation, Andrea Silbert (AB 1986, MBA 1991, MPA 1992) invests charitable dollars to help fight poverty and hunger in Massachusetts. In 2007 Silbert became president of the Boston-based philanthropic grant-making... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
students from Singapore mingled with a dozen alumni to learn more about life at HBS, including the best classes, section dynamics, and “not-to-miss social events.” HBS Club of Singapore President, Stan Furman (MBA 2005) shared a few words... View Details
- 29 Jul 2020
- Video
Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, as well as the former CEO of Telkom and FirstRand Group, describes how his accounting firm... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency in South Africa, describes how while working in advertising during the last years of the apartheid regime, he sought to educate White people... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- Video
Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt, the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India, discusses Gandhi’s concept of trusteeship in business.
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Anil Jain
Anil Jain, head of the India-based agribusiness Jain Irrigation Systems, describes the influence of Gandhi on his father, and on the values incorporated in his business.
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What a Difference a Community Can Make
financial goal but, in true HBS fashion, to exceed it. It has been a joy and a privilege to take part in such a broad, collective effort to ensure that HBS has the resources to remain the standard-bearer in management education for years to come. READ MORE HBS Campaign... View Details
- January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
PortageBay and ESG Analytics
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Radhika Kak
In 2023, sustainable investors faced several challenges. The first was the lack of access to standardized and vetted environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, and equally, the interpretation of this data into investment-useful insights. Reducing reliance on... View Details
Keywords: ESG Ratings; Investment Funds; Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Radhika Kak. "PortageBay and ESG Analytics." Harvard Business School Case 324-065, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects. To date, the BTN’s nurse... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been a resounding “no,” as evidenced by the View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a company-based plan. The plan’s View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital to drive social progress. We are pioneering new impact investing approaches, like the View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
Africa Health Holdings which works to improve the health care system in West and East Africa and has 38 facilities, 52 community outreach programs, and serves more than 500,000 patients; chairman of Golden Palm Investments, an impact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of... View Details