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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Good Luck Charm
Far from the Great White Way, the Big Apple also shines brightly, in the neighborhood arts-and-culture scene that thrives throughout the city’s boroughs. Those lively goings-on are often made possible through the good work of Lisa Quiroz (MBA ’90), senior vice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
notes SEI faculty cochair Herman B. (Dutch) Leonard. "In addition to helping us stay close to practice, alumni provide financial support for initiatives that sharpen the perspectives of social enterprise executives and open paths to social View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
hoisted into place. The celebration included remarks by Faust, Nohria, and Walsh; demonstrations of new technologies being developed by SEAS students; and a panel discussion on the impact of the SEAS move and Harvard’s expanding science... View Details
- June 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Background Note
Politics Comes to ESG Investing
By: Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd
While the past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the incorporation of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards into investor practices, this momentum has shifted recently in the United States, as some politicians argued that ESG investing practices... View Details
Cole, Shawn, and Jonah Zahnd. "Politics Comes to ESG Investing." Harvard Business School Background Note 224-107, June 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection
By: Dylan Minor
We explore the notion that corporate citizenship, as obtained through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is used by managers to protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We formally explore two parallel mechanisms for such... View Details
Minor, Dylan. "The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-021, August 2015.
- 26 Sep 2016
- News
Lending a Hand
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is chairman and cofounder of the Bridgespan Group and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he talks about the essence of service. “When I was launching Bridgespan and trying to figure out, ‘do I do this full-time,... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Gift for MBA Global Reach
Rubenstein Photo Courtesy The Carlyle Group David M. Rubenstein, cofounder and managing director of The Carlyle Group, has made a gift of $5 million to HBS to support global programs for MBA students. “To get a worthwhile business education today, you need to spend... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
Kundu is thrilled to be able to have such a significant and sustained impact on so many people. “I fully appreciate the opportunities I’ve had, and the good luck and good fortune,” he says. “Being born in the US, starting a company—all... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
from their daily challenges to engage in learning that will help them take their organizations beyond the status quo." At Thun's request, the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley plays a key role in recruiting participants who will maximize the View Details
- November 7, 2023
- Article
How Courage Can Help Leaders Stay the Course
By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Food and Beverage Industry
Gulati, Ranjay. "How Courage Can Help Leaders Stay the Course." Inc.com (November 7, 2023).
- 2022
- Book
A Political Economy of Justice
By: Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson and Joshua Simons
Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people... View Details
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Social Justice; Capitalism; Business And Society; Economy; Society; Fairness; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
Allen, Danielle, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson, and Joshua Simons, eds. A Political Economy of Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Impact: The Changing Nature of Work
Advanced technologies, shifting demographics, and new business models are transforming the nature and scope of work globally. As a result, the skills leaders need—today and tomorrow—also must evolve. Since its inception, HBS has aspired to prepare its graduates to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Breaking Up the All-Male Boardroom
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
A Roundabout Path
To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without the support that a fellowship provided him.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2016
- News