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Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap Read the Report Read the Report To close America’s chronic middle skills gap, U.S. employers have to partner much more actively... View Details

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

the intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, and learn how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic investment decisions that generate financial success. 8 weeks, 5–6 hrs/week Enroll by April... View Details

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J.P. Morgan's new sustainable investing growth fund, focused on startups with Climate Tech. The simultaneous exposure to daily calls with founders and formal investment committee meetings painted a holistic... View Details

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Investors as Stewards of the Commons?

By: George Serafeim

Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Industry Self-regulation; Sustainability; ESG; Capital Markets; Investor Behavior; Investment Activism; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Cooperation

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01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

Cooperation Council—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—outsourced the management of their petrodollars to American and U.K. bankers. This time around, they have adopted active View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

national economy. Trying to cure the inner city’s problems solely by increasing social investment has rarely been successful. But when we approach revitalization from a competitiveness perspective, we begin to see the existing and... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

CNET Networks, Bonnie was a managing director at Tiger Management, a New York-based investment firm. Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999), Symbol Capital Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he... View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

were looking at their phone, they were eating, whatever. And this year it was like 23 of the 25 were watching because the pace was so much more active and so they were engaged and they were dialed in on the sport. And so that's the kind... View Details

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Alumni Board - Alumni

Volunteer Alumni Board HBS Alumni Board The HBS Alumni Board provides input, expertise, and feedback to the leadership of External Relations and the School. Members are selected from a pool of active volunteers. Log in to learn more and... View Details

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Clubs - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Clubs 1ms Student-led clubs and activities give students the opportunity to become better informed about and engaged in issues and possible career paths. A number of clubs focus on the link between business and environment... View Details

30 Nov 2021
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What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

04 Sep 2001
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Governing the Family-Run Business

(companies whose ownership is controlled by a single family) and other kinds of family enterprises including family foundations and family investment funds, the lack of effective governance is a major cause of organizational problems. In... View Details

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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details

25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2021 (Revised February 2022)
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Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy to Drive Shareholder Value

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher

At one time, Bed Bath & Beyond was one of the most successful specialty retailers in the United States—its growth and profit margins far exceeded both peer retailers in the home goods market as well as many other discount retailers. But in 2014, its stock price peaked,... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Diversification; Corporate Governance; Leading Change; Performance Evaluation; Valuation; Investment Activism; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family... View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Both on and off campus, there are many opportunities for students to engage in social enterprise focused activities and community building. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum Through carefully tailored content and small peer group... View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Education programs each year Alumni Clubs provide over $10 million annually in pro-bono consulting to non-profits Club Activities include: Social enterprise events and programs for alumni Volunteer consulting programs Events to benefit... View Details

09 Jun 2022
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The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

with a group of sectionmates I didn’t know very well. I met one of them through a Women in Investing Club event, and she invited me on the trip. As an introvert, I was hesitant at first—spending a whole weekend with people I didn’t know... View Details

09 Feb 2010
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human patients. Doyle believes NovoCure has the potential to become an important company with a major new cancer therapy platform but must complete pivotal (Phase III) clinical trials and receive FDA approval. Doyle's venture capital firm, WFD Ventures, has View Details