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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30 percent on administrative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
“If people want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” — Paul Baier (MBA ’94) The residential sector is the single-largest end-use sector for energy, accounting for 25 percent of global demand. If every US home replaced one light bulb with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
to really transform the organization.” That drive for increased efficiency and quality at lower cost resonates with many of the institutions represented at MHCD, which include the Cleveland Clinic, Children’s Hospital Boston, and The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
compete for a $50,000 grand prize and a $25,000 second prize—plus meet this year's Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. The contest, designed to support promising alumni ventures, is hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, which focuses its teaching, research, and collaborative efforts on nonprofit organizations, other private social-purpose enterprises, and the role of business leadership in the View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
they’d ask, ‘Who are you?’ I’d reply, ‘I’m your Schlumberger engineer.’ They’d say, ‘No, you’re not. Send a guy out.’” This was in 1994, and after explaining a replacement would not be coming, Kovatch would get to work. By the end of the job, seeing the quality and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance, Paine has condensed twenty years of research and teaching in the oftenmaligned field of business ethics to argue that companies can — indeed must — be... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
created jobs and improved his community’s water system. Focusing on efficiencies to fuel growth and create jobs, Scharfman’s Specialty Cheese has doubled its workforce to 100 people over the past five years. By partnering with government... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
studying all aspects of the pandemic and are working with business, government, and social sector leaders—as well as with colleagues at Harvard and beyond—to offer insights, strategies, and best practices,” says Gary Pisano, senior... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
socially responsible investing was in its infancy; the now-common phrase impact investing had been coined just a few months earlier. For the first eight years of the fund’s existence, Fenwick-Smith was raising money, but he couldn’t wait... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
bare compliance with regulations, do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources to environmental protection? Should firms sacrifice profits in the social interest, given their... View Details
- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
board of directors for Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses volunteer talent from the private sector to increase efficiency and effectiveness in the armed forces and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
affects social attitudes about altruism. And since markets may not be the best allocators of goods “on grounds of either efficiency or fairness,” Sandel called for broad debate on “where markets belong, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
A strong commitment to community service is a given for most HBS clubs — the challenge lies in determining the most efficient means of leveraging the skills and interests of club members to create change. New York, Boston, San Francisco,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
museum’s “incredibly supportive and creative building committee.” Working with skilled professionals from a wide range of disciplines is something Houston did often in her experience at New York City’s Lincoln Center, first as an HBS View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Palo Alto, CA Business management software, solutions, and services Lionel Bony (MBA 2006) Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass and Boulder, CO Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of... View Details