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  • September 2022
  • Case

Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues

By: Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
This case provides brief descriptions of 18 examples of corporate leaders confronting questions of whether and how to engage with societal issues, including social, political, and environmental issues. Social issues include COVID-19; social and racial justice;... View Details
Keywords: Political Issues; Social Justice; Racial Justice; Environmental Issues; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Values and Beliefs
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  • June 2021
  • Case

Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not... View Details
Keywords: Agility; Ecosystem; Innovation Ecosystems; Innovation; Crowdsourcing; XPRIZE; Open Innovation; Partnership; Government; Collaboration; Co-creation; Purpose; Impact; Social Impact; Movement; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Ambidexterity; Ambidexterity; Culture; Culture Change; Global Teams; Experimentation; Space; Space Industry; Airline Industry; Start-up; Platform Business; Platform Strategy; Platform; Digital; Robotics; Robots; Avatar; Telepresence; Innovation Lab; Mobility; COVID-19; Intrapreneurship; Public-private Partnership; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Alignment; Leadership; Leading Change; Diversity; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry; Japan
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  • 04 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid

  • 2024
  • Report

Overcoming Barriers to Resolving Gaza and Beyond

By: James K. Sebenius
As of early January 2024, discussion of the Gaza war heavily focuses on its humanitarian costs, cease fire possibilities, hostage prospects, and “day after” options. Yet what longer-term strategy guides actions on these vital issues while offering a more positive... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; War; International Relations; Israel; Middle East
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  • 08 Feb 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

First, the Navy has to buttress its billions of dollars of shoreline assets against rising sea levels. Second, it has to plan to be called on more often to address both military threats and humanitarian crises caused by climate change. In... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2022
  • HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

products such as baby formula. At the same time, the company declared it would donate all profits to humanitarian relief organizations, and would therefore not pay any corporate taxes to the Russian government, although it would continue... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • Web

About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

investing. She has worked as a project manager at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a program coordinator for the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and the Jewish Multiracial Network. She holds an MBA in Nonprofit Management... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

about his message What gets lost is the author’s own mixed feelings about single-minded pursuit of profit and his hopes for a humanitarian society in which wealth and power are in balance. “Happiness is more generally and equally diffus’d... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

rights leader and role model for millions of people around the world. How did he do it? Early in his career, Ali’s creativity and hard work helped him overcome significant obstacles. Ali used his growing fame to bring attention to racism and View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

optimizing humanitarian relief after natural disasters through data. However, my time at Facebook also showed me the tremendous potential for misuse in data analytics; I watched Facebook’s ad-targeting technology exclude minorities from... View Details
  • Web

Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

civilian casualties and a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. To date, thousands of innocent lives have been tragically lost. The pain, grief, and fear from these events and a rise in antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arabism have tested the... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

organization cohesion. The brand is the glue holding the components of the global organization together. Q: Some NGO brands, such as the Red Cross, are recognized worldwide. When a humanitarian crisis such as the recent Asian tsunami... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

war. “The mental health future of Ukrainians is critical to rebuilding after the war,” says Ames. “We look at it as a human capital issue and a humanitarian issue that will be transformational to the country’s future.” View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

HBS. The Canadian Red Cross puts pseudo-sets to the test The researchers proved the efficacy of pseudo-set framing through a series of laboratory and real-world field studies. In one study, they teamed up with the Canadian Red Cross, a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

with a focused strategy concentrates its resources on a specific task or intervention—such as the homeless shelter that focuses on providing overnight beds and a warm meal, or an ambulance service that focuses on getting patients to the emergency room quickly. But... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

international development and microfinance, having seen some of the Marines’ humanitarian work during my deployments to the Middle East and Africa. After HBS, I worked as a consultant to get business experience at the strategic level, but... View Details
  • Web

General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

from the Aspen Institute. Peter Tufano : Inducted into the Monticello (NY) Hall of Distinction, 2016. Andy Zelleke : Recipient of the 2016 Robert F. Greenhill Award. 2015 Gerald C. Chertavian : Recipient of the Boston NAACP’s Kivie Kaplan View Details
  • 12 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

Blair’s era of successful humanitarian intervention (Balkans) and before 9/11, and British policy in Sierra Leone led to military operations that many agree helped prevent further  Atrocities. The Royal Marines were involved, and that put... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

building not-for-profit groups to pursue their mission. Businesses in this era focused on compliance with a rising body of legislation and public policies designed to mitigate what were then seen as environmental excesses. The social sciences and View Details