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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

produced better results. The governments of democracies as a whole prioritize generating wealth over the environment, because it translates into votes. Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Governing... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

will serve as chief of staff of BrightUp, a seed-stage Boston-based fintech company focused on democratizing wealth building and well-being. Announcement Press Release Recipient Press Release Dean’s Regional... View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics

donors—“you don’t naturally have a feedback loop”—and you have to build strategic alliances. “No nonprofit is going to achieve big objectives alone,” Laidler-Kylander explains. Trickle Up invested in 41,000 women living in extreme poverty... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Nov 2015
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What is HBS START Week?

students’ next two years. We structured START around the three pillars at the foundation of successful student life: (1) personal and (2) professional development and (3) a strong community to facilitate... View Details

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

During his recent standing-room-only seminar about artificial intelligence (AI) and race at Harvard Business School recently, marketing professor Broderick Turner displayed a slide showing several white blob-like characters that resembled... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

07 Jul 2023
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

teamed up with partner organization ReFood, and Ghose liked the model: repurposing surplus food from restaurants to feed the local community, with hyperlocalized food drives run by local volunteers. He brought the idea home to two friends... View Details

06 Jul 2011
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Are You a Level-Six Leader?

people who always ask, "What's in it for me?" Their moral compass is guided primarily by the accumulation of wealth and power, all else be damned. Bernie Madoff, now in prison, is a poster boy for... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

28 May 2020
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How to Fit in at HBS

delivered by students about their lives, hobbies, or subjects of expertise. I stood in front of my 94 section mates and five professors, none of whom I had met just two months earlier, and I poured my life... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

Fellowship supports the School’s need-blind admissions policy and reduces student debt, allowing Burden Fellows to pursue careers based on their passions, as their benefactors did. “For 50 years, the Burden family has supported Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
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Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

at affordable rates the HBS Impact Investment Fund is part of an important local ecosystem working to build greater equity and diversity in business ownership, and ultimately in View Details

25 Jun 2007
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HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

05 Oct 2020
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Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

After earning a doctorate, Ashley Whillans received two tempting job offers: one in her hometown, where she could remain close to family and friends and work reasonable hours for the local government, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2001
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How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

Over The Allocation Of Value Corporate restructuring usually requires claimholders to make significant concessions of some kind, and therefore has important distributive consequences. Restructuring affects not only the value of the firm,... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

equality, and poverty reduction. For the full listing, click here . Tough Tech Ventures (Spring 2025) Joshua Lev Krieger & Jim Matheson While tough technology has the potential to transform incumbent... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Mar 2024
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A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

Korea, they also concentrated money and power, leading to some serious problems for today’s South Koreans. Once again, there are plenty of competing viewpoints on whether government’s interventions helped or hindered the success story of... View Details

01 Sep 2022
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Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

the two countries have managed to alienate each other. It includes everything from blame about COVID-19 to suppression of minorities in China to the US policy toward Taiwan and “One China” to military action in waters adjacent to China to... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

10 Aug 2009
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High Commitment, High Performance Management

experience. What is the source of their commitment to building a HCHP company and how do they describe the transformation journey they are leading? We are analyzing the data from these interviews and plan to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 May 2014
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Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

activities, moving away from your original business. If you can't consider diversification and entrepreneurial efforts, you are probably not going to survive long-term. Identify And Develop Family View Details

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