social impact investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

are probably a dozen different things that I work hard on that have a direct impact on young people and the quality of their lives. What are some of the other issues you're involved in? I fight for consumer and business issues. I'm always... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

who's teaching what, I think, would be the first place we'd need to start, and we can look to the example of what's already being done in Europe. JF: That's interesting. I mean, a lot of literature also focuses, of course, on the broad domain of View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

alum Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) presented the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award to conservation power couple Paul J. Zofnass (MBA 1973), founder of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and his wife, Renee E. Ring, COO of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women

with more members gaining board seats and opportunities to interview. We knew the network was achieving success when a recruiting company sent WomenExecs four open board seats through one of our members.” The quieter victories also feel significant. Bichard, who is... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

marketing-services firms, describes the $4 billion spent last year as "chicken feed." What he finds interesting about the Web is the impact it is having on the wider area of communication services. Sorrell, whose business leadership... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

December 2023 (Revised July 2024)
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Boortmalt: The Master Maltster

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene and Emer Moloney

By May 2023, Boortmalt was the world’s leading producer of malt, with a production capacity of 3 million tonnes, 15% of global market share, and 27 malting plants across five continents. It had recently acquired a major competitor and had sustained an EBITDA growth of... View Details

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11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

companies are under increased pressure to diversify their boards in order to include more minorities, women, and social activists. While shaking up the historical old boys' board networks may be good for balance, Kaufman observes that it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

business in the world today, do you foresee new opportunities for HBS? In most institutions that endure, there are “inflection points” — times when forces like the economy, technology, and the social environment converge, and the future... View Details

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum." The conference brought together 114 global faculty from schools of medicine, health care administration, public health, and business; leaders of the US professional societies; and HBS alums active in... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

January 2025
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AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan

Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details

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29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Fund—Managing Towards Impact 2018 No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218086-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-072 Background Note: Introduction to Investing for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. The case caught the attention of Luo and Alberto Galasso, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, who have together looked at the impact of changes in liability... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

in November 2004 by Princeton University Press. Jaffe is professor of economics and dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. In Innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

with their yellow Lab, half a dozen chickens, and a few sheep. While Adams has kept his hand in the business world through Vineyard Ventures, a small, private equity fund that has invested in companies as far-flung as Chile and China,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

worried about students going into these culture industries only thinking in terms of traditional management styles and industry structures, bottom lines, and financial incentives, without thinking about what 'creative content' and 'cultural product' means, what View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed

create the conditions that allow everyone else in an organization to realize their own potential and power. When done well, as the authors explain in the following excerpt, leadership is about creating an impact that endures even in your... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program, this meant no more funding for big, complex, billion-plus dollar missions like Viking (which... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech, launching Venrock’s Internet practice... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is created, what factors impact it, and how you can take control of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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