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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

an organization focused on environmental issues. HBS Forward Fellowship: Helps support students from lower-income backgrounds who have carried significant financial burdens or obligations. It helps ensure that students from all... View Details

09 Oct 2020
HBS Seminar

Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

International, a microfinance organization focusing on Latin America. Last fall, a series of seminars on business and global poverty was held; more conferences and seminars are set for the coming months.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

indicators on business decisions Discover the short- and long-term impact of interest rates, inflation, trade, and investment Learn distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you think about the world and View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Texas Abortion Law Roils Businesses

01 Sep 2004
News

HBS Business Plan Contest

The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility,... View Details

17 Oct 2018
News

Tarun Khanna ’88 on Trust and Developing-World Businesses

31 Jan 2011
News

Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior

24 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited from inside or outside the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang; Retail; Auto

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

Article

Business Leaders and Nonprofits

By: J. E. Austin

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations

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Find at Harvard

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions,... View Details

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

September 2010 (Revised January 2016)
Case

Grameen Danone Foods Ltd., a Social Business

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

Grameen Danone is a joint venture between the Grameen Group (a sister company of Grameen Bank) and Groupe Danone, a $2 billion (revenues) French food company. The company's goal was to provide nutritional yogurt (brand name Shoktidoi) for the nearly 50 million... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Food; Distribution; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; Bangladesh; France

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Educators

Purchase

29 Mar 2013
News

Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

01 Apr 2001
News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through student clubs, MBAs View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

"professional" models? Or will it increasingly be achieved in the institutions created and run by large business enterprises to train not only their own employees but those of other organizations... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Aug 2014
News

Improving Your Business with Management System Standards

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

expansion," Ghemawat argues. While identifying similarities from one place to the next is essential, effective cross-border strategies will take careful stock of differences as well. An expert on global strategy, Ghemawat lays out an action plan for View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

How can Latin American business and academia work together to stimulate more case writing in the region? In a set of frank discussions, conference participants—academics and business executives... View Details