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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
just on Japanese orders, particularly now when everyone’s orders are contracting. What are your chief concerns about how the Treasury Department under former Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) chose to allocate funds from the $700 billion... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
There is a wide range of singing skills and experiences represented among us. Some of us toured around the world with college a cappella groups, whereas others never formally sang in a group prior to joining HOTS. Despite our backgrounds,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ inner-city residents to design,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
biggest misses have been far misses, not near misses—companies that we didn’t pursue aggressively because we didn’t “get it,” or we believed the funding round was likely outside our typical parameters. Those include Stitch Fix, Cruise... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
because it is a small, well-managed country and in part because it is in effect starting from scratch, Rwanda is achieving good results. Said Porter, “I’m optimistic that the world community is willing to provide outside resources for... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
they need. This can easily lead to "mission creep"—the random accumulation of new goals and tasks as the organization follows funding (rather than its mission)—or to "mission shear"—direct and consistent pressure that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
Professor of Business Administration; a new cohort begins every few months. First, a math lesson Many firms use the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol developed by the World Resources Institute and World Business... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
world was being run," speculates Belkin. "You see the world through the eyes of your past experiences, and the late '60s through early '70s made us look at a number of things, including business... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
crowdfunding. We asked Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001), a partner at The Bridgespan Group—nonprofit advisor to mission-driven organizations and leaders—and author of “Galvanizing Philanthropy” (Harvard Business Review, November 2009), to help alumni make sense of the... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Arts Focus: Arts Funding Team: Victoria Sung Description: Over the fall term, I worked with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to conceptualize and create a prototype for Lincoln Center Global Perspectives, an annual publication that... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
2. Sponsorship This was by far our best year for sponsorship, as we raised nearly double the funds of prior years in order to support our expanding endeavors. This year, over 35 firms partnered with the club, many of which were new... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its Alliance Capital Management unit... View Details
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
Innovative Companies in Travel’ by Fast Company alongside Airbnb and Google. Bashir used her experience and contacts at startups like the Gilt Groupe and Artsy to secure millions in funding from the likes of Google’s Eric Schmidt,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini