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  • 2022
  • Case

Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
This case describes Salesforce's development of Sustainability Cloud, a suite of software tools built to help companies measure, track, and report carbon emissions and other sustainability metrics. The goal of this case is to provide students with a background and... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Applications and Software
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Should Business Have Human Rights Obligations?

By: Nien-he Hsieh
Businesses and their managers are increasingly called upon to take on human rights obligations. Focusing on the case of multinational enterprises (MNEs), the paper argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their... View Details
Keywords: Human Rights; Ruggie Principles; Corporate Responsibility; Multinationals; Rights; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 22 Mar 2022
  • News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni celebrate 75 Years of Connection, Learning and Service The HBS Club of Houston marked its 75th anniversary on February 26 with a cocktail party at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston. More than 65 alumni attended the party and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 07 Jan 2022
  • News

Learning to Fight

Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag’s (MBA 1968) wife, Susan, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Thanks to an experimental treatment, Susan survived, though she continues to experience significant loss of cognitive function caused by the tumor and its... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble

Already a well-used venue, the Harvard Innovation Lab has been the site for a full schedule of panels, workshops, and seminars since its opening last fall. In early November, the i-lab hosted its first Start-Up Weekend Scramble, an event designed to let aspiring... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 25 Jul 2018
  • News

HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86

C. D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr., a Harvard Business School alumnus (MBA 1956) well known and admired for his many notable achievements in both the public and private sectors, his visionary leadership and generous philanthropy, and his constant kindness and concern for the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The nonprofit would... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 25 Mar 2015
  • News

The Greening of Houston

Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co.... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • News

Private equity guru's mission to show big business can do altruism

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • Web

Tim Cho Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive... View Details
  • March 2018
  • Supplement

JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (B)

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Local Economic Development; Workforce Development; Philanthropic Investment; Financial Institutions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Banking Industry; United States; Michigan
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    Keywords: Canning, Agriculture
    • 10 Nov 2020
    • News

    Learning to Fight

    Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He lived in sunny Jacksonville,... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 04 Sep 2019
    • News

    Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

    Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival rates. Two companies at the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab are... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 01 Dec 2006
    • News

    Enron’s Legacy

    If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that destroyed the company and... View Details
    Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance
    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

    In late November, a distinguished group of HBS alumni, faculty, and friends gathered on campus at a celebratory dinner to pay tribute to the legacy of the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33). A leader of industry and a pioneer in business education, Fitzhugh was one of... View Details
    Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 01 Jan 2013
    • News

    Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

    Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Download James profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page 1942 Born, Sandusky, Ohio 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Harvard College 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Raymond James Financial, Controller 1969 Earns JD, Stetson College... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 01 Mar 2010
    • News

    HBS Grads Make Their Mark in India

    Amelio Child Care Founder and CEO Sridevi Raghavan (MBA ’08) Amelio is India’s first on-site child-care services provider. The company helps firms to analyze their employees’ child-care needs and assists clients in opening and managing day-care centers. Founded in... View Details
    Keywords: child care; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • Web

    Caitlin Reimers Brumme Archives | Social Enterprise

    Filter Results: (4) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive... View Details
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    Zach Komes Archives | Social Enterprise

    Filter Results: (2) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive... View Details