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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS OnBoard To inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards The OnBoard program was created to develop alumni leadership skills critical for modern governance. OnBoard consists of virtual synchronous sessions on current issues,... View Details

    Glass Half Broken

    Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it. For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on... View Details
    • March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
    • Teaching Note

    OpenInvest

    By: Boris Vallee and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
    Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolio to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapon manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ... View Details
    Keywords: Socially Responsible Investing; Investing For Impact; Robo-advisors; Investment; Values and Beliefs; Customization and Personalization; Technology; Financial Services Industry
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    • 28 Apr 2020
    • Blog Post

    HBS African American Student Union

    extra-curricular activities.   Clubs also sponsor a variety of events such as workshops, speakers, and conferences that provide distinct opportunities for learning, networking, View Details
    • 11 Jan 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

    School. “Instead, we find that firms that adopt A/B testing both scale and fail faster. Sometimes founders just have bad ideas and, in these cases, experimentation helps them move onto their next opportunity... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 01 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

    internship at a leading airline. 3. Leadership Opportunities More than 200 students serve as club leaders and that’s only counting co-presidents and CFOs. HBS is a leadership... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

    the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 11 May 2022
    • Blog Post

    MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

    This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female View Details
    • June 2013 (Revised June 2016)
    • Case

    Ensina!

    By: John J-H Kim, Alejandra Meraz Velasco and Christine An
    In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, with the support and encouragement of several prominent philanthropists and members of government, launch Ensina!, seizing Brazil's unprecedented economic growth and national commitment to... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Business and Government Relations; Education Industry; Brazil
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    • July 2018
    • Article

    Reimagining Health Data Exchange: An Application Programming Interface-Enabled Roadmap for India

    By: Satchit Balsari, Alexander Fortenko MD, MPH, Joaquin A. Blaya PhD, Adrian Gropper MD, Malavika Jayaram LLM, Rahul Matthan LLM, Ram Sahasranam, Mark Shankar MD, Suptendra N. Sarbadhikari PhD, Barbara Bierer, Kenneth D. Mandl MD, Sanjay Mehendale MD, MPH and Tarun Khanna
    In February 2018, the Government of India announced a massive public health insurance scheme extending coverage to 500 million citizens, in effect making it the world’s largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to... View Details
    Keywords: Health Information Exchange; India; Health APIs; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology; Health Industry; India
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    • 5 Feb 2013
    • Conference Presentation

    Financing Entrepreneurial Growth

    By: Tom Alberg, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler and Sharon Vosmek

    Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital.

    The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in... View Details

    Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
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    • 02 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    My MBAid Story: Christine Keung (MBA 2020)

    when she was three years old and grew up in Los Angeles, where she helped her parents in their tiny Chinese restaurant after school. She reflects on what made HBS such an incredible experience, how she took full advantage of the View Details
    • 25 Sep 2023

    HBS Information Session in Dakar

    Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions... View Details
    • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
    • Case

    The Carlyle Group

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    This case describes the investment philosophy, organizational structure, management processes and culture of the largest private equity firm in the world measured in terms of assets under management ($89 billion). The Carlyle Group is distinctive in several ways,... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Assets; Private Equity; Investment; Global Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Asia; Washington (state, US)
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    • 27 Jun 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Recovering from the Need to Achieve

    own fallibility and limitations and that an opportunity to learn existed. From an interpersonal standpoint, it conveyed that he had the courage to show vulnerability, that he... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
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    Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults

    By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal
    Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Age; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
    • Supplement

    United Rentals (B)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
    In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
    Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
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    • 28 Mar 2024
    • News

    Rooms with a View

    Mirza notes—and provide them with opportunities to develop and advance. Bringing greater equality to the hospitality industry is one of Mirza’s guiding principles: “Our industry is probably the most... View Details
    Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality
    • 30 May 2024
    • News

    How to Have Effective Conversations

    has said that being lonely is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And 15 cigarettes a day is a lot of cigarettes, right? That's not a small number of cigarettes. Having these relationships, they not only make us happier View Details
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    Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    into account external opportunities and threats, the availability of internal resources relative to requirements, the aspirations and values of senior management, View Details