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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research) 15 Dec 2024 | HBS Magazine Back at the Ranch Veterans are hungry for meaningful work; the ranching industry is desperate for good help. Ben Minden’s Bear... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and professionally. “You're not going to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

both great financial and environmental returns." Angela Amos MBA 2014 | Shaping the Big Picture “I believe stakeholder engagement is necessary to address climate change. At work, I evaluate diverse perspectives to craft legally sound,... View Details

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own business possible. I was a 2+2 admit,... View Details

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The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry

Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America

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Business Track | New Venture Competition

Business Track Presented by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, this track is for new ventures whose economic returns drive substantial market impact. How to Register & Key Dates Eligibility $ 75,000 Grand Prize $ 25,000 Runner-Up Prize... View Details

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

Professor Debora Spar, Professor Peter Tufano 1:45 p.m. Closing and Conclusions Professor Debora Spar, Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society For event information... View Details

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Business Program Discount | HBS Online

Management Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business in Society Finance & Accounting Certificates You Can Earn Certificate of Completion All paid HBS Online courses, with the exception of CORe, grant a Certificate of Completion.... View Details

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

When tales of financial fraud hit the newsstands, business people and academics usually assume that it was analysts or auditors who brought the wrongdoing to light. Journalists, they believe, are only repeating what they've been told.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

beneficiary was European banks that had big operations here. The globalization of the top end of the financial services industry means that the Fed is everyone's central banker. The reactions we've seen in developing markets recently to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

such as nuances in personality types and their respective implications in business and social environments. Summer Internship A big question at business school is what... View Details

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

Jiyoon Han (MBA 2021) is getting a taste of what it’s like to be a case protagonist—learning how to pivot while measuring unforeseen challenges against new opportunities. When news broke in March about how COVID-19 would affect the Harvard View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

to illustrate to students that positive societal impact and business success can coexist. “I think that’s what BiGS is all about,” Chu says. “It’s not about asking ‘how do we make society better despite... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

is ever going to leap ahead. The main barrier, according to Pisano, is the lack of integration among costs, rules, technologies, and disciplines. In a presentation at the Harvard Business School Alumni Healthcare Conference, held last... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

12 Jul 2020
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

have done a big service to mankind, so that's my ultimate ambition. Read More >> Climate Stories By Jacqueline Adams & Lynn Schenk Researched and written by Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) and Produced by Lynn Schenk, Director,... View Details

June 13, 2021
Guest Column

Big Oil Gets Clean and the World Stays Dirty: Public Pressure on Fossil Fuel Companies Can Only Do So Much

By: John Mulliken

Keywords: Climate Change; Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Opinion; Investment Activism; Energy Industry