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- 19 Jun 2013
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Your Guide to Social Enterprise
Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change? Or is it the application of business methods to a nonprofit so...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Early Impact
ability to invest in new ideas and initiatives. Those who choose to deepen their commitment to the work of the School as leadership annual donors are recognized as HBS Fund Investors Society members.
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
facing society and the economy, and this is one of them. We feel we have an ability to make a positive difference, and an opportunity to learn in the process. Porter: This really starts with the idea that the School has a unique platform...
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- 08 Dec 2017
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Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right skills to solve the...
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- 17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
to code help make a difference—in education and also more broadly on a society level? “We often think about technology in the context of the ‘tech’ industry. The reality, though, is that software has transformed every industry out there....
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- 01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset
difficult problems and big issues. But they do need to be supported. As the old proverb says, ‘We all drink from wells we didn’t dig.’ Americans should understand that what these people and their agencies quietly do every day is vital to the health of our civil View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Investing in Innovation
and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the public that business is a force for good and is fundamental to societal progress by creating jobs,...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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A Janus-Faced Reflection
final, secret pride was that as individuals we were mostly self-creating —we weren't going to take on any of the confining, conventional roles that society had prescribed for earlier cohorts, roles like "organization man" or "suburban...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
opportunities to become change agents for society by creating pattern-breaking approaches and sustainable solutions, explains HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. Unlike business entrepreneurs who are motivated by profits, social entrepreneurs...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
should avoid any semblance of tax evasion or illicit activity, says Baker. He points to the goals of GFI’s Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development (TFFIED), a global coalition of civil society organizations and some 55...
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- 12 Aug 2010
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You Can’t Take It with You
Last week, The Giving Pledge announced that forty of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to give away at least half their fortunes to charitable organizations. Cofounded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the pledge includes the...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
a deep-souled neighbor, they slowly peel back the layers of what is basically a closed society in the wilds of Izard County, Arkansas, and come to relish their new lives in this little lost corner of the world. Recalculating: 97+ Experts...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
similarly strong margin across both groups saw two other dominant issues at century's end - health care and education - as getting better. Teaching tomorrow's leaders As for the role of business in the coming decades, 73 percent of alumni respondents saw the influence...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
Facebook make a 100 percent return, society doesn’t question it—it’s absolutely fine to make money if you are a smart investor or entrepreneur or just plain lucky, glory be to you,” says Rangan. “But just imagine making—on the backs of...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations
history can we actually understand the role of Black leaders in our society and the way they can flourish or not,” he says. In “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations,” Desai and coauthors Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan ask...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier
military. The US Special Operations folks who are part of this story had a deep and abiding respect for these women. Does it have lessons for our society is the question, I think. Women not being apologetic about saying, “We don’t have to...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
from opioids), Shumway also cites domestic abuse and criminal records that prevent reintegration into society as primary factors that contribute to homelessness. “A disproportionate number of the homeless are also veterans with mental...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
eliminated the Foundations II program and moved its content elsewhere into the required curriculum. The Society and Enterprise module, for instance, has been integrated into the General Management course, and the Economics and Markets...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which last November unveiled three...
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