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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
been overlooked, underserved, and misunderstood as consumers. While the pandemic has exposed many of the unmet needs of older adults, from tools to make aging in place easier, to ways to meaningfully spend their time, the sudden Zoom boom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I... View Details
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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
strategies with tangible social benefits, is gaining widespread acceptance within the business and nonprofit communities. These are some tools and emerging research topics. Shared Value Measurement An... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Raising the bar for financial literacy
approximately 5 million students, from kindergarten through high school. "Opening a bank account is a one-time event. We're trying to teach kids skills and tools they can apply to any decision they may face going forward," she says.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
According to Herzlinger, although public and nonprofit institutions are entrusted with taxpayer and donor dollars to provide social goods such as education, health, and art, they have few systems and tools... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Market Perspectives - Course Catalog
cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development, illegal drugs, rent control, housing, drug pricing, racial references, corporate political action, View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
both communities and businesses in the coming decades, HBS professors are making a significant contribution to the urban recovery movement. Building Sustainable Communities Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
and the social sciences. Bringing together leading scholars, the book is organized in four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. Capitalism, Democracy and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and sharing his own experience of the recovery path. D’Antonio, who attended Harvard Advanced Leadership... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
agencies in 29 states as a tool to assist those who are unemployed bolster their skills. “Our workplaces are changing very dramatically,” Feerick says. “We can provide people with the most up-to-date courses to give them an edge.” A... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Web
Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
rigorously track the interdependency between social and business results, they miss important opportunities for innovation, growth, and sustainable social impact at scale. An approach to shared value... View Details
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Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services
Training Training Workshops & Technical Talks 11ms See below for trainings, reference materials, and resources at Harvard and beyond. R R workshop materials (e.g., Intro to R; R Regression models) from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
To transform lofty aspirations into quantifiable impact, nonprofits need to become more familiar with traditional business tools such as business plans, precise mission statements, and goal setting to improve their performance. That was... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
consultancy that would apply data-driven strategy to deepen social impact. Today Bridgespan employs about 200 people, and its free online library of articles, background reports, and tools designed to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct | MBA
2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 2.1 Academic Standards of Conduct 2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism 2.1.2 Using ChatGPT & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools 2.1.3 Classroom Recording, Photography & View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Anti-Social Media
limit their social interactions, and in the case of pair, to just your life partner. It focuses on intensity and familiarity rather than broad and shallow interactions. Honestly, I find most new tools and... View Details