Investing For Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

(MBA/MPP 2017) and Taniel Chan (MBA/MPP 2017) are invested in understanding how social change can be driven through public-private partnerships. Being the tremendous multi-taskers they are, they’re also eager to help prospective students... View Details

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Careers - Health Care

résumé-writing workshops, and career round-tables are organized each year to help students learn more about specific health care industries, prepare for internships, and network with other students and alumni. Career Coaching HBS health... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks needed to make way View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

asking for children’s ages “at checkout” was potentially vague. They wondered what would happen if they specified the checkout date. Creating two different versions of the same menu, they tested it in real time, and determined that the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

navigate nascent markets but overlooks an imperative for entrepreneurial firms that pioneer in these contexts: finding a viable business model. Through an in-depth, multiple-case study of ventures in the nascent social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even competitors. Organizations as unique as Guide Dogs View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

percent of market value. The payout rate for fiscal 2021 met that target at 5.2 percent, consistent with the prior year. The utilization of a payout formula means that the annual payout rate is generally lower following years of... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. "I just really lacked direction, and needed to focus," says Trejo, who had a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

to B. V. Krishnamurthy, confining such activities to an "R&D function" even though he questioned "whether organizations are ready for open collaboration." Ulrich Nettesheim suggested that, if innovation is to be... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Working Groups Update | About

implement impactful actions, and to create enduring and thoughtful education opportunities for the HBS community. We will conduct focus groups and one-on-one conversations with students, staff, and faculty,... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

finite lives. “The less control you feel you have over your daily experience, the less happy you feel. Money is a tool that allows you to purchase that control.” “People save for vacations, personal experiences, going out View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

board of the National Tax Association, and on the editorial boards of Social Choice and Welfare and National Tax Journal . Prior to completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 2008, Professor Weinzierl served as the Staff Economist View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

impact. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Enroll by March 6 $1,850 Certificate Power and Influence for Positive Impact Professor Julie Battilana Understand how power really works and develop your own to gain influence and... View Details

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

curve,” for example, made employees in the top 20 percent of performance eligible for raises and promotions, while those in the bottom 10 percent risked being demoted or fired. Industries such as View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
News

Donald J. Chiofaro

projects in New York, Chicago, and other major cities. He dismisses predictions that real-estate investment trusts and other industry innovations may spell the end for development entrepreneurs. "I've been... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

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MBA Program - Alumni

the School is preparing future leaders for the demands of an ever-changing world. HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund HBS’s first student-run View Details

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Regulatory Change/Business-Government Relations

“Sources of Learning Heterogeneity: Discontinuous Regulatory Shock and its Impact on Organizational Search Behaviors”

Co-authoring with Jerry Kim, in this study I look at how discontinuous regulatory shock shapes organizational... View Details

Keywords: Business ＆ Government Relations; Regulations; Regulatory Capture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan,... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Faculty Faculty Lynda M. Applegate Baker Foundation Professor Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard... View Details

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