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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Leadership Fellows Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Loan Assistance Community A wide variety of clubs and activities serve as major vehicles for supporting students interested in social enterprise. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum... View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

& Associations Stay connected with other alumni interested in social enterprise while you build lifelong relationships with MBA students, fellow alumni, and Executive Education participants. Did you know? 25... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Case Study: Growing the Family Business

discounted services or brand association might benefit the local lender. Finally, given the business strategy of no long-term commitments, I wonder if the centers could be sold to or subsidized by local... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

04 Sep 2024
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Announcing the 2024-2025 Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) Fellows

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

million—more value to companies than patented inventions developed without citing scientific research, says a paper co-authored by Harvard Business School professor Joshua Lev Krieger, University of Munster professor Martin Watzinger, and... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

"not intrinsically interested in business." It may account for evidence that students today are primarily interested in admission to, rather than study at, the elite View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

Wellesley College, and Kendall E. Smith, a doctoral student at London Business School. A congressman takes action Initial expectations for the group’s prospects were low. George Esper, who was Vietnam correspondent for the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Jul 2020
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

13 Feb 2024
HBS Seminar

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21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

nightly fee. Of course, now we know the idea as Airbnb, a $10 billion business with 1.5 million listings around the world. But back then it must have seemed crazy. The liability issues alone seemed insurmountable—to say nothing of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

at least May 1, 2022. Please be aware that your LRAP funds are for the sole purpose of refinancing part of your HBS educational loan debt and may not be diverted to other loans or used for any other purpose. Even if you are in forbearance and/or your View Details

January 2025
Article

Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

By: John Guzek and Ashley Whillans

This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Through interviews with 30 SMB owners across various industries, we identify the key barriers to ESOP adoption as lack of... View Details

Keywords: Profit Sharing; Employee Ownership; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Small Business; Adoption; Employees

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23 Oct 2019
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How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

Alison Wood Brooks is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit at HBS. Her research, course development, and teaching focus is on the... View Details

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

business is doing,” says Schlesinger. (An electronic point-of-sale register, purchased through a Vietnamese connection and installed in 2014, is rarely used, the case notes.) Furthermore, Than is more View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request the Data A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Robert S. Abbott Chicago Defender, 1905–1940 Benjamin Abrams Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation, 1922–1966... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans

Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

15 Oct 2019
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Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

culture. “We went to learn, to understand, and to see best practices,” says Srikant Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for University Affairs and... View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

Sustainable Business Practices: For early- and mid-career professionals looking to gain skills in sustainable business practices. Business and Climate Change Sustainable View Details

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