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- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi, the prominent Indian actress, discusses her transition from actress to activist, and why she persisted despite initial challenges.
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- Video
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi, the prominent Indian actress, discusses her unconventional role as a lesbian in the film Fire, and explains why risks should be taken in parallel cinema.
View Details- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
experiences with systemic racism. In late June, the NCF plans to announce its second round of grants, totaling $2 million, to community groups across the Commonwealth. See more from the online-only June Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society
Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982) Fascitelli, paid tribute to the life of Mr. Whitehead and illustrated the lasting impact of legacy gifts on HBS. As Dean Nitin Nohria said in his remarks, “Very few institutions in the world outlive us.... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
government technology. For these CEOs, hiring skilled workers, global trade, and H1B visas were also high on their agendas. Technology executives such as Apple’s Tim Cook and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff have voiced their concerns about the View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 2014
- Working Paper
Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis, Luc Renneboog and Sunny Li Sun
We argue that the language spoken by corporate decision makers influences their firms' social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future.... View Details
Keywords: Language; Future-Time-Reference; Categories; Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Communication; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Liang, Hao, Christopher Marquis, Luc Renneboog, and Sunny Li Sun. "Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-082, March 2014.
- 2008
- Chapter
The Corporate Conduct Continuum: From 'Do No Harm' to 'Do Lots of Good'
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Corporate Conduct Continuum: From 'Do No Harm' to 'Do Lots of Good'." Chap. 14 in The Virtuous Organization: Insights from Some of the World's Leading Management Thinkers, edited by Charles C. Manz, Kim S. Cameron, Karen P. Manz, and Robert D. Marx, 279–286. Singapore, New Jersey, and London: World Scientific, 2008.
- April 1996 (Revised December 2011)
- Background Note
Responding to Market Failures
Broadly defines the concept of market failure and explores options for responding to it. It pays particular attention to the role of business leaders in addressing market deficiencies. View Details
Dees, J. Gregory. "Responding to Market Failures." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-344, April 1996. (Revised December 2011.)
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
HBS convenes an annual Digital Transformation Summit that explores the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow’s technology. The most recent summit, held in February, focused on artificial intelligence and drew some 500 professionals and scholars. HBS convenes an... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. In their first year at HBS, MBA students take a dozen required courses vital to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
Walter Diaz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In an effort to help accelerate land and ocean conservation across the globe, Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) announced in a New York Times opinion piece that he is giving $1 billion over the next decade to support locally led... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Supporting Students on Their Journeys
Fund, as well as donors who have established more than 700 named fellowship funds, have had a direct and deep impact on the lives of thousands of students. Such generosity has a tremendous ripple effect as the beneficiaries—and all who... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
could have a large impact on global climate. When Payne signed on for the project, he didn’t realize how important his volunteer effort would become. The Arctic Ice Project has sparked the interest of such organizations as the United... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Video
Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, details the establishment of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in 2001 which aims to combat poverty in Egypt through education, job creation and training in fields such as nursing. View Details
- Video
Gabriela Cabrera
Gabriela Cabrera, President of Manos del Uruguay, emphasizes the non-profit’s focus on providing education and employment opportunities for women in rural Uruguayan regions. View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- Video
M. V. Subbiah
MV Subbiah, the Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Group, a large Indian business conglomerate, discusses the group’s AMM Foundation and its community initiatives that focuses primarily on small towns and villages. This includes the creation of four schools, the... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Video
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal, the legendary Indian film maker and pioneer of parallel cinema in the country, discusses the need to contest conventional patriarchal representations of women in movies, as an essential step to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage the nation’s... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace