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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey Jones explores how the beauty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Portrait Project
Phillip Jones
same history and struggle and drive for something better wasn’t just etched in the stones, old and new, before me. Instead, it was deep, vibrant, and most of all, alive in me. That night, I left that plot with a new plan: dedicated to using my life to strengthen the... View Details
- Profile
Felipe Núñez
peeps through occasionally, but in the meantime, we’re all doing our best to look cool, calm, and collected. Full disclosure: I seldom manage to successfully pull off looking “cool.” Being part of the HBS community is like... ...jumping... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Chicago
Personally, I got to meet alumni working on electrifying our transportation system, setting up software platforms to help with ESG reporting, advising berry farmers, and an entrepreneur who created a marketing firm focused on key social issues. Our goal through this... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar programs. (Published December 2015) View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Ideological Segregation Among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians By: Greenstein, Shane, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Do online communities segregate into separate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
contingent on value-added communities [built around ideas] are self-defining, just about everything is decentralized ideas compete on an equal footing.” Again, not all of his case examples were drawn from the West Coast. But many of them... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
communicate with colleagues across the decentralized chain of independent outlets. Franchisees use the site to communicate with their employees and share ideas for improving sales. However, there are some... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either the community or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
are trying to accomplish, a vision of their role in accomplishing it, a vision of the activities and operations they will need to make progress on it. It takes strong communication between the CEO and board, and strong View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect with their View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
global-poverty problem, which is what IGD has done, is an important step that the public sector would be wise to study. One thing stands in the way: lack of a broad-based understanding in the business community that ending extreme global... View Details
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
percent over the 2002-2007 period. Since 2000, the annual release of new albums has more than doubled, and worldwide feature film production since 2003 is up by more than 30 percent. How markets for complementary goods (such as concerts, electronics, and View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
and panel discussions and engaging in dialogue will stimulate further discussions, generate new ideas, and nurture the community of HBS graduates and others in the VC industry worldwide. What did your participants identify as some of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC
Organization Katie Urban, Digital Strategy & Communications Specialist, CRC Companies LLC Describe your organization in three to five sentences. CRC Companies LLC (CRC) is a national real estate development and investment firm with... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate