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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
society more broadly,” observes HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. While celebrated for their public accomplishments, the honorees’ private lives reflect their devotion to family and community. We present glimpses of both in photos by Pulitzer... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
image by John Ritter Twenty-five years after the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) was launched at HBS, the Bulletin sits down with professors on the forward edge of the movement: Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004), who developed the EC course View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
government. For example, we need to figure out how to improve the quality of education in this country. Our public educational system is failing, and true to form, entrepreneurs are rising to the challenge.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
environmentalist. He and I spent a lot of time together discussing the larger environmental challenges of our time. He was a big thinker. He was very encouraging and supportive of my desire to shift my career more in the direction of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel comfortable writing checks.” Dan Morrell: Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) has spent much of her career as an entrepreneur and tech executive and was well aware of the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Publications January 2015 Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Agglomeration and Innovation By: Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
face of public transportation in cities and smaller communities? HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman weighs the benefits and opportunities for entrepreneurs and for society. "Right now, the field is wide... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
meaningful and economically sustainable," he says. Lassiter's Market-based Proposal His proposed market-based solution? "I think each energy source—oil, natural gas, wind, nuclear, solar, etc.—should have a market price based not only on its production costs, but also,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
three projects: Debian, a complete non-commercial distribution of Linux; the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME), which is a graphical user interface for Linux-based operating systems; and Apache, a public domain open source Web server.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
in diverse urban public schools, which forged my passion for racial equity. After graduating from college in Washington, DC, I was founding director of the DC Community Anchor Partnership (DCAP), a public-private network, in partnership... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
welcomes and notes of appreciation for Hannah-Jones’ work, as well as questions that she and Neely answered towards the end of the 90 minutes. Following the keynote were panels on topics such as becoming an entrepreneur through... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
doesn’t really keep me up. I have a terrific group of colleagues, and I never make a decision alone. There’s so much intelligence and integrity here that I have complete confidence in what we do. Of course I sometimes worry about another View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organizations and others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence public opinion about these issues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge
study by Richard Ruback , Robin Greenwood , and colleagues tells the company's story. At Lucky Ones Coffee, a small coffee shop tucked inside the public library in Park City, Utah, loyal customers regularly purchase coffee, tea, and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
especially the public sectors that, "We need to do more with less?" The underlying assumption, of course, is that greater productivity will cure whatever ails an organization. Something good will come from it, either for an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
era are especially in need of this kind of updating. 1. Forgo stewardship for entrepreneurship. A steward, writes Robert Hargrove, co-CEO of Masterful Coaching, based in Brookline, Mass., in E-Leader, is someone who conserves the existing business. An View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni