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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Professor Ethan Rouen Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (Spring Q3Q4) Professor George Serafeim Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential... View Details

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Clubs - Business & Environment

Venture Capital and Private Equity Club The Venture Capital and Private Equity Club is committed to providing its members with career and educational opportunities in the venture capital and View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

prosperity. Recent Publications Educating Students and Professionals on the Business Implications of Climate Change By: Michael W. Toffel 2025 | Article | EFMD Global Focus As climate change poses unprecedented challenges and opportunities, the View Details

February 2018 (Revised October 2024)
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Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Lynn Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some... View Details

Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Chairperson, Private Equity at Apollo; Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance; Member of the Harvard Corporation; Fran Seegull (MBA 1998), President, US Impact Investing Alliance + More Info – Less Info Impact... View Details

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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details

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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States

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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Enerjisa Üretim: The Digital Era of Electricity Generation By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Sadika El Hariri Launched in 2017, Enerjisa Üretim was one of Türkiye’s largest private sector electricity companies.... View Details

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Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

MBA students can engage in a wide variety of career development programs that support their social impact career pathways. These programs cross multiple sectors and provide the opportunity to tailor one's engagement based on individual... View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

critical functions are part of the competitive and organizational strategy of any team or organization. Adopting value creation as the scorekeeping measure does nothing to relieve us of the responsibility to do all these things and more in order to survive and dominate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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Business History - Faculty & Research

opportunities for a cohort of green businesses across sectors ranging from beauty and health to eco-tourism. Keywords: Environmental Sustainability ; Business History ; Globalization ; Economic Growth ; Latin America Citation Find at... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

Moret (MBA 2011) discusses the root causes of this trend—and what policymakers and the private sector can do to address it. How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

February 2017 (Revised March 2018)
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BIM: Finding New Ways to Grow

By: Michael Chu and Gamze Yucaoglu

BIM, Turkey’s giant retailer with a hard-discount model for the popular segments, must decide whether to launch a brand-new format challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs... View Details

Keywords: Turkey; Decision; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Value Creation; Change Management; Decisions; Growth Management; Retail Industry; Turkey

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Finance - Faculty & Research

debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds... View Details

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Merve Ciplak

wanted to find a way to “marry the fast pace and high intellectual caliber of the private sector with my inherent interest in giving back to the global sphere.” Long attracted to law school as a way to... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Plant-Based Agribusiness (1) Policy (44) Political Elections (33) Pollution and Pollutants (4) Poverty (3) Power and Influence (72) Practice (1) Prejudice and Bias (60) Price Bubble (6) Price (36) Private Equity (17) View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased... View Details

November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
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China's Rural Leap Forward

By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews

Collectively owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) played a pivotal role in China's rapid growth during the 1980s and 1990s. Although they originated in the policies and institutions of the Maoist era, TVEs thrived only after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Public Sector; Public Ownership; Development Economics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Macroeconomics; Emerging Markets; China

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