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Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

We spoke with four participants of our live online programs to learn more about their experience: Augusto Bassanini, President & CEO, United Grain Corporation Trey Ford, Vice President, Platform Strategy and Trust, Salesforce.com, Inc.... View Details

11 Jun 2020
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Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital

eager to use their business acumen to identify growing companies and help them prosper. Each year, Jonathan and Katja see several hundred students join the Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, engage in educational programming, and... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

The main focus of ARF to date has been to create a giving process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

responsibility to do something in this sector,” says Chen. “Impact investing is still in the very early stages in China and lacks human capital, government support, and high-quality investees. There is a clear need to build a platform for... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

remember writing essays for admission to HBS and talking a lot about leadership and impact,” she recalls. “I can’t think of a better way to be a leader and have impact than what I am doing now.” Scharpf created SHE in the fall of 2007 to serve as a View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library

possible. Our Commitment We acknowledge that this work is ongoing and is part of our continuous education and critical examination of our descriptive practices including all new collections. We will: Continue to learn, listen, and engage... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

dramatically scaling our impact without scaling the organization,” he continues. “So if the first decade was direct service and knowledge, the second decade will be about taking that platform and generating 100 times more impact.” One... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Jul 2020
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A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

our broader mandate and increase campus involvement, we focused on growing our WII Board to over 35 women, who devoted themselves to developing and executing robust programming throughout the year. We also introduced new Board initiatives to further View Details

16 Jul 2021
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Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

highs – such that the world started to turn the corner in delivering effective climate mitigation action.” BEI strives to foster alumni engagement by offering a platform for discussions on critical environmental topics. Driven by her... View Details

May 2024
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gWorks (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details

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29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

has launched a COVID webinar series for companies on topics including “Building a Resilient Supply Chain” and “Managing an Effective Work Force during a Crisis.” Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Limited, where Ndidi Nwuneli is... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

16 Sep 2020
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose - Justice System Reform, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

may be positive and is strictly lower than 1. We also investigate the possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

and with Marietta’s support, recently completed her undergrad degree. Pine Mountain’s approach is holistic: In addition to offering more than a dozen environmental education courses for schoolchildren that integrate science, ecology, and... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

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HBS - From The Dean

halt, the pandemic required us to find new ways to achieve our mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world. It propelled us into a future full of possibilities we otherwise might never have imagined. Over the past... View Details

31 Oct 2023
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Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

technology platform around naturally occurring beneficial bacteria found on all plants. After a career in private equity and venture capital, Steve became an entrepreneur in 2012, helping to feed a growing population in a sustainable way.... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

that you didn’t in previous incarnations of the web. And more important, the platforms actually have a strong incentive to educate consumers and help them understand. Because once you own your digital... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2020
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Road Work

restaurants in the Los Angeles area. But after 25 years, the business went bust, and she relocated the family to her native Mexico when the Salas brothers were 12 years old. It’s a fitting origin story for Camino Financial, an online lending View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

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