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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his life when he was just 21 years old. Having volunteered as a Big Brother while working at Chemical Bank in New York City, he saw firsthand the need for a program that would bridge the gap... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession,... View Details

15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

potential new uses for captured carbon. Todd Brix (MBA 1997): And that's what we aspire to—to enable a circular carbon economy using humankind's CO2 emissions or the CO2 that's already in the air. DM: That's... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

Deontology teaches “aggressive responsibility.” A deontologist, focused on universal duties and morals, might concentrate on leaders’ responsibilities to their teams and customers. “When you’re beginning to... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

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Terrance McGuire

In the mid-1980s, when McGuire arrived on campus, the Boston area was abuzz with conversations about innovation and technology. The minicomputer era was fueling the local economy View Details

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Charting the Year Ahead

percentage takes advantage of them. Insightful demographic and psychographic profiles have been developed from alumni survey data that will enable the committee, chaired by Jim Rice (MBA 1986), to recommend... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research View Details

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

organize to address problems of the commons. He points to his research on the political economy of accounting standards, where he finds that firms and industries worldwide systematically organize to redefine... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

will be in this last group. Amid the challenges of protecting the environment and halting its decline in urban areas and elsewhere, there is a consensus that sustainability will drive business during the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

systemic barriers, it becomes false hope. Measured hope vs. transformative hope When we pair our hope with care, patience, and respect for our surroundings, we can develop a measured hope , which can lead to... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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India - Industry specific research

text-decoration:underline">World Health Organization - Countries - India Includes basic health statistics and descriptions of several health related issues in India. View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

sharply tailored suit with close-cropped silver hair. “It probably wasn’t very bright, but I was arrogant.” But as Maj began his studies in Warsaw, Poland again fell into tumult. In early 1976, a controversial amendment to its constitution declared the republic to be a... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

all over India, as well as other hard-hit countries in Asia. —Anuj Maheswari (MBA 2006), managing director of Investment, Temasek. Maheswari and a group of volunteers leveraged the company’s networks to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 May 2024
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

Mujeres Empresarias, Ejecutivas y Emprendedoras del Uruguay), a non-profit focused on advancing women’s economic development and entrepreneurship in the country. In her interview, Michelena stresses her view... View Details

23 May 2019
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These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer, Kathy Giusti cofounded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, which has helped thousands of other patients with the cancer and has accelerated... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

settlement and formally apologizes on behalf of the British government, June 2013 Shortly thereafter, John Hart, the movie producer behind Boys Don’t Cry and Revolutionary Road, bought the rights to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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