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23 Oct 2019
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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

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

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

23 Aug 2017
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Developing Leaders Behind Bars

It’s heartbreaking. What do you hope people take away from seeing the photos? The smiles. The heart. The compassion. I hope that these people will not remain forgotten – they deserve our love, compassion and help. Did any of the inmates have a particularly strong View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

01 Jun 2023
News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

says. “My heroes are the waste pickers, the brands and consumers making better choices, and the companies working on alternatives to petroleum-based plastics. I am simply a guide to help inform people so they can become the heroes of their own stories.” How to: Reduce... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

01 Sep 2020
News

Making Democracy Work

A democratically elected government is essential to free-market capitalism—a strong democracy provides the foundation necessary for capitalism to benefit all, rather than only a few. Today, democracy is in decline around the world, and populism is on the rise, fed by... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship: It's for Corporations, Too

By: Dutch Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, Jane Wei-Skillern and James E. Austin

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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01 Dec 2018
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HBS Campaign At-A-Glance

01 Dec 2001
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New York Club Asks for Donations to September 11 Relief Fund

The HBS Club of Greater New York has established a matching fund in memory of those who were lost and to assist those who are in need as a result of the September terrorist attacks. The club has set aside $10,000 to provide matching grants for alumni wishing to make... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Article

The Social Purpose of Corporations

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Marco Meyer, David Rodin and Jens van ‘t Klooster

To think about the purpose of corporations is to think about what corporations are for. In this article, we argue that the concept of a purpose has an important role in thinking about the moral evaluation of corporations. We make three contributions. First, we... View Details

Keywords: Social Purpose; Corporate Purpose; The Corporation; Market Failures; Measurement Of Purpose; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ethics

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Keywords: Financial Services

23 Feb 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Aug 2014
News

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been a resounding “no,” as evidenced by the investment policies that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

19 Nov 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones; Information Technology

May 2024
Article

Selfish Corporations

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Niels Gormsen and Timothy McQuade

We study how perceptions of corporate responsibility influence policy preferences and the effectiveness of corporate communication when agents have imperfect memory recall. Using a new large-scale survey of U.S. citizens on their support for corporate bailouts, we... View Details

Keywords: Public Opinion; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Policy

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01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

James A. Henderson (MBA '63) is chairman and CEO of Indiana-based Cummins Engine Company, one of America's most respected industrial corporations. Prior to joining Cummins, where he has worked for more than thirty years, Henderson, who graduated from HBS with high... View Details