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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
rapidly changing world. This program is a collaboration between the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University. Strategic Perspectives View Details
- 2023
- Book
Deeply Responsible Business.: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership
By: Geoffrey Jones
Corporate social responsibility has entered the mainstream, but what does it take to run a successful purpose-driven business? This book examines leaders who put values alongside profits to showcase the challenges and upside of deeply responsible business. Should... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; Business Ecuation; Socially Responsible Investing; Business Education; Ethics; Leadership; Business History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Religion; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Banking Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Computer Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Education Industry; Fashion Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United Kingdom; Germany; United States; Japan; India; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey. Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
selective. "Wholesale imitation refers to experimenting strategies in which the junior person mimics the self-presentation style of a single role model, holistically, without much adaptation," she writes.... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes During Spring reunions, the Bulletin team asked returning alumni one simple question: What was the best business advice you’ve ever received? View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Steel and Alcoa withstand antitrust accusations Personal and corporate tax rates cut Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment banking separated Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
themselves fully heard and recognized.” This degree of openness is equally apparent when Lim describes the reasoning behind his application to HBS, where he has served as copresident of the Leadership & Ethics Forum. “It dawned on me that... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Kumbh in January to discover what such an undertaking can teach us about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. In addition to the video and Q&A below, Macomber has written a... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?
This paper seeks to reduce the ambiguity surrounding our understanding of what crony capitalism is, what it is not, what costs crony capitalism leaves in its wake, and how we might contain it. View Details
Keywords: Democracy; Industrial Governance; Institutional Corruption; Crony Capitalism; Lobbying; Campaign Finance; Costs; Cronyism; Business Ethics; Campaign Finance Reform; Revolving Door; Economic Systems; Ethics; Political Elections; Financing and Loans; United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-025, October 2014.
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Nov 2018
- HBS Seminar
Lindsey Cameron, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- 28 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School
business in a new environment is among the best ways to build a greater understanding of global markets. My time on the continent also included visits to six other African countries and added to a number of... View Details
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Social enterprise-focused alumni comprise a powerful network for social impact that spans across the globe. Whether it’s within the nonprofit, public, or private sector, HBS alumni pursue a variety of managerial, entrepreneurial, voluntary, and philanthropic roles... View Details
- February 2016
- Case
Hon Hai's Investment in Sharp
By: Mihir A. Desai, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Zachary Markovich
In March 2012, Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Ltd. (Hon Hai) announced its investment in the Sharp Corporation (Sharp). The deal was structured in two parts: the first had Hon Hai investing in Sharp, and the second involved Hon Hai founder, chairman, and CEO Terry... View Details
Keywords: Hon Hai; Sharp; LCD-TFT; East Asia; Net Present Value; Acquisitions; Valuation; Negotiation Deal; Acquisition; East Asia
Desai, Mihir A., Keith Chi-ho Wong, and Zachary Markovich. "Hon Hai's Investment in Sharp." Harvard Business School Case 216-035, February 2016.
- December 2007
- Article
Private Power in Indonesia
By: Louis T. Wells
The Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million dollars in costs for Indonesia. As Indonesia in 2007 was... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Government Legislation; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Indonesia
Wells, Louis T. "Private Power in Indonesia." Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 43, no. 3 (December 2007): 341–364.
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
technology. Yet those opportunities came with managerial challenges. Remote patient monitoring represents a case in point. “Medicine has traditionally relied on a physician seeing a patient in View Details
- 24 May 2010
- News
Doctoral Awards for Excellence in Mentoring
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
history, memory, civil rights, identity, and belonging. As part of Harvard Business School’s commitment to promoting racial equity, Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School is meant to inspire... View Details