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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
In his new book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies, Professor Ranjay Gulati makes the case that it is indeed possible to serve two masters—profit and social purpose—at the same time. But in order to do so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are graduatesof the MBA View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
and started to talk about how we could improve the situation. “We ended up with an idea of starting a smaller university focused to low-income students coming from the really poor families who were high achievers during high school. We launched the university in 2009;... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- Profile
Naiyya Saggi
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I am passionate about creating social impact (specifically improving healthcare outcomes in emerging economies). At HBS, leadership is not interpreted narrowly: it is not sectoral,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
century, social networks played a significant role in who had access to power in business. Social networks were defined by who you were (your race and gender), where you were born, what religion you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Goodbye and Hello to MBAs
In June, members of the Class of 1998 packed up their belongings and set forth from Soldiers Field, full of promise and ambition, to launch their careers. This fall, a new group of enthusiastic students from 62 different countries... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- News
One Obstacle to Curing Cancer
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Spring Renewal
Spring 2004 Reunion photo galleries Dean's Welcome Dean's Reception Faculty Presentations African American Alumni Association Class of 1954 Children's Activities Class of 1999 Pub View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Spring Reunions
for a busy weekend of activities. Faculty presentations (including a first-ever case-method class for alumni kids); panel discussions featuring alumni participants; social events; and even some quiet moments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
insights into how managers can engage frontline workers to solve problems. Reunion presentation: Designing Care, Professor Richard Bohmer Health care–related programs and courses are nothing new at HBS; in recent years, 10 percent of every graduating MBA View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
global strategy, a new position. More Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people. Yet most can't afford... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Fall Reunions
presentations by HBS faculty and staff and by Harvard University faculty ranged from an overview of the School’s commitment to its global research centers to an insider’s research findings on religious terrorists. When class was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Checking In, Catching Up
and presented a report on the School, which was followed by industry panels featuring members of the class. Section lunches, dinners, and a class social on Spangler lawn offered plenty of opportunities to... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
foundations, but it also relies heavily on the generosity of individual donors, who include section mate Bill Ackman (MBA 1992) whom Callahan describes as “a brilliant, insightful person who cares about achieving extraordinary social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
arise only if people at all socioeconomic levels are gaining from that growth. If, for example, the richer classes are gaining while the poorer and middle classes are stagnant or declining, the moral... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Fall Reunions
Spirits were high and the mood was merry as the MBA Classes of 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, and 1978 returned to Soldiers Field October 2–5 for their reunions. Close to sixteen hundred alumni and guests took advantage of the weekend’s mix of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
who inspires people to reach their full potential. It was during one of these sessions—and just after I read How Will You Measure Your Life? by Professor Clay Christensen—that I had the idea to start a nonprofit whose mission is social... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
majority of humanity, accessing goods and services, not through government or civil society, but through markets. Yet this remains largely unstudied. Through 24 cases, module summaries and guest protagonists, this course seeks to fill the gap. Composed of the emerging... View Details