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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
Canada for prescription drugs as a form of civil disobedience. This kind of grassroots response is an important preliminary step toward addressing the rising costs of medicine, he said. Other speakers included Raytheon Chairman Daniel P.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
multiple proven approaches—through charities, social enterprises, philanthropy, and public policy, and perhaps most critically, the efforts of individuals. “I think Half the Sky and A Path Appears have both had quite an impact,” she says.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?
- 02 Jun 2014
- News
How to Win the Argument with Milton Friedman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC). Whitehead is also the founder of HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), dedicated to generating and sharing knowledge that helps... View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
investments to both nonprofit and for-profit social impact companies. It also offers philanthropic fund management, and it partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My... 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
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni celebrate 75 Years of Connection, Learning and Service The HBS Club of Houston marked its 75th anniversary on February 26 with a cocktail party at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston. More than 65 alumni attended the party and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
would bridge private- and public-sector work,” he says, “so it was an opportunity see how that could play out in an amazing, mission-driven organization.” The experience led to his joint MBA/MMP studies at Harvard. “I was meeting people who were talking a lot about... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc.; Founder, HBS Social Enterprise Initiative “Focus has always been Job One in my success. Globalization goes against that. International operations can create a real lack of focus if... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper series on View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Social Partnering in Latin America by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco, Gabriel Berger, Rosa María Fischer, Roberto Gutierrez, Mladen Koljatic, Gerardo Lozano, Enrique Ogliastri, and the SEKN Team (Harvard University Press) Professor Austin... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News HBSAB Virtual Case Event Explores Black New Venture Competition As second-year students at HBS, Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020) and Tyler Simpson (MBA 2020) created the inaugural Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) to help Black tech founders find... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
to breakdowns in strategic outcomes, and where top management can intervene to shape desired results. They show that a company’s realized strategy emerges less from formal statements of corporate strategy and more often from the pattern... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
leaders together to help communities of color across Massachusetts achieve social gains through economic investment.” Seeding Progress Like the Massachusetts-centered NCF, the nationally focused ARF began as a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg