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- 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
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Zealand is a contributor, now, towards climate change, with so much of our animals contributing to global warming. And people were becoming very skeptical and cynical about farming's role in New Zealand society, given the social View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
have now returned to work, but not as the same person who left. As an individual, I will “take less,” in many ways. As a businessperson, what I have learned will affect every investment decision I make. Sustainability, or the lack of it,... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
these new businesses with education and advocacy for public health and hygiene will have a significant and sustainable social and economic impact on communities. What aspect of your organization makes you... View Details
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impact. Social Responsibility and Sustainability Explore insights on social responsibility and sustainability—from climate finance to AI in refugee resettlement and impact... View Details
- 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
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Pagliuca. The Life Lab will contribute to building a thriving start-up community in Allston by seeding the campus with early stage scientific ventures. Together with the i-lab and Launch Lab, the Life Lab will foster the cross-disciplinary approach to entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
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José Alejandro Cortés
José Alejandro Cortés, President of the Colombia-based diversified business group Grupo Bolìvar, discusses the responsibilities of corporations beyond serving shareholders, especially serving the poor and the... View Details
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Ghassan E. Nuqul
Ghassan E. Nuqul, Chairman of the Nuqul Group, explains the origins of the Elia Nuqul Foundation in 2008, and discusses the group’s CSR projects in Jordan and elsewhere in MENA. View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- Video
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, India’s largest biopharmaceutical company, explains how her firm developed over four years a new technology for making insulin, an essential... View Details
- 09 Nov 2021
- News
Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
As part of a recent cover story in WIRED about Netflix’s racial equity pledge, the magazine spoke to the company’s human resources director, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), who led the project. The article notes that Mitchell helped craft the company’s approach, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
During COVID-19 and Beyond. Closures of schools and other learning spaces have had an impact on 94 percent of the world’s student population; for low and lower-middle income countries, the impact has been up... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Narayanan Vaghul
Narayanan Vaghul, Former Chairman of ICICI Bank Limited, recounts discovering and establishing strong financial backing for Pratham, an NGO that seeks to improve the quality of education for children throughout India (Filmed October 26, 2017). View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
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Francis Okomo-Okello
Francis Okomo-Okello, Chair of the leading Kenyan luxury hotel group Serena and of the subsidiary of a major foreign bank, describes his belief that a bank must engage in responsible lending for the sake of... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
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Devi Shetty
Devi Shetty, who founded Narayana hospitals in India, shares one of the most difficult challenges of working as a surgeon in a developing country such as India --having to “put a pricetag on human life” He... View Details