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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

thinking. Profits involving a social purpose represent a higher form of capitalism—one that will enable society to advance more rapidly while allowing companies to grow even more. The result is a positive cycle of company and community... View Details

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Recent Alumni - Alumni

your city. MBA Admissions Partner with the Admissions team to support efforts with potential applicants, applicants, and admitted students, so that prospective students may experience firsthand the strength and warmth of our alumni View Details

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

11 Aug 2003
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Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

keep a tight rein on costs—but the dynamics of the budgeting process often undermine this effort. "In tough times like these, any significant real cost growth feels imprudent and is hard to justify for most businesses," writes Mike Baxter, a View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

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Drew Keller

and environmental outcomes, which is different from the primacy given to shareholder returns over the past 50 years or so. In my work prior to HBS, I partnered with businesses actually acting on this and using their voices to advance... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

importance of teamwork and communications skills." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "No matter what job you take when you graduate, your first months and first couple of years will mark you. You'll be creating a reputation for yourself. If you... View Details

24 Sep 2018
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How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

people's needs." Checchi cites his experience with struggling Northwest Airlines, which he and business partner Gary Wilson purchased in 1989, as the equal of any public-sector challenge. With multiple public and private constituencies,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Judges - Alumni

expertise with a start-up owner mindset and a bias toward action and outcomes. A trusted partner and “first call” to entrepreneurs, Tina currently serves on the boards of Arrae, August, and Dae. Tina is uniquely fluent across the... View Details

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Kristin W. Mugford | About

Kristin W. Mugford Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Unit Finance Contact Phone Bio Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School and the... View Details

09 Jan 2006
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When Benchmarks Don’t Work

that internal support or shared services groups provide, such straight-across cost or numeric comparisons become meaningless. Today's successful support unit earns its keep by being a trusted partner to the business units it serves. So,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

12 Apr 2022
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The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

alongside physicians and students alike who believed there was a dire need to leverage technology to address the social needs of the patients we cared for. Our mission for the DIH is to support innovation that addresses social determinants of health (SDoH) for... View Details

26 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

GEAPP is an alliance of entrepreneurs, governments, technology, policy, and financing partners working together to support developing countries shift to a clean energy model that ensures universal energy access while enabling the global... View Details

16 Mar 2020
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How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Sarah McConville | About

its offerings reach nearly 13 million faculty, students, and professionals globally. As Co-President, Sarah partners with Ellen Desmarais to lead vision, strategy, and financial performance of HBP and its 600 employees worldwide. Along... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense

reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

20 Apr 2020
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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021) is working to help launch LivelyHood, a COVID-19 volunteer response effort. LivelyHood is a platform that connects healthy, young volunteers with the elderly and immunocompromised in their local community for... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

systemic change in K–12 education. Publications Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal April 2025 | Faculty Research In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived

To achieve this, Perlow and her colleagues are partnering with Alumni Relations on its larger HBS for Life initiative, to strengthen alumni lifelong learning and forge connections. “Crafting Your Life started as a course and is growing... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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