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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Government, Business, and Nonprofit Leaders Early-Career Professionals Learn how to evaluate, measure, and manage sustainable investment opportunities with cutting-edge frameworks, strategies, and techniques. The course content is well... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
innovations that connect it to a larger management literature. The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion in methodologies and tools for... View Details
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- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
to move to the education nonprofit before applying. Though now that I’m here at HBS, I have met lots of people that applied straight from software roles. I think I was overestimating the concern. How have you been able to bring your STEM... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
investors, and policymakers increasingly call on businesses and their leaders to help find solutions—roles once viewed solely as governmental or nonprofit responsibilities. The pace of these evolving expectations has placed many business... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
beginning. We have founded a nonprofit think tank, Innosight Institute, to promote the ideas from our work to the stakeholders in the system so that we can help create meaningful change. We also are employing the think tank to continue... View Details
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Tim Nicolette
and management skills in the service of nonprofits in the social sector. What influence did HBS have on your ambitions? I came to HBS for two reasons. First, in my nonprofit work, I noticed that effective... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
where she has advocated for the nonprofit to reevaluate its hiring and human resources. She speaks often of her "ovarian lottery ticket," deploying the Warren Buffett term for those born into lives of opportunity. Her philanthropy,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
Frist, who is married to Tommy, worked at Goldman Sachs and Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Company and now serves on several nonprofit boards. In honor of the Frists, the new faculty commons in Baker Library will bear the family name. View Details
- 21 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
role that played to his or her strength: Laryea’s background is in finance, Israel has technology expertise, Kreeger and Li have nonprofit and consulting experience, and Soukup, a physician, brought knowledge of the health care sector.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
result of his research was the establishment two years ago of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to putting Porter's model into practice. Now the father of two daughters, Ilana, nine,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Career Support - Business & Environment
careers with nonprofits focused on corporate engagement, or in the public sector. HBS MBAs have many options for making a difference at the critical intersection of environmental and business issues. BEI actively assists students in... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. A lot of what we discussed in this course will immediately be relevant when I start my new role with the City of Cambridge in August. Some key takeaways from the course include how to:... View Details
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Harvard Business School
chairman, Americas, as well as an international director and the founder of Jones Lang LaSalle's highly acclaimed Public Institutions Business Unit, specializing in comprehensive real estate solutions for federal, state, and local governments; economic development and... View Details
- October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
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Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details
Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and Esel Çekin. "Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business School Case 522-043, October 2021. (Revised May 2023.)
- 01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Business of K-12 Education in China
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Business of K-12 Education in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-022, October 2021.
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
co-leading the Collaborative in partnership with the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute—where Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO—as well as the Association for Energy Affordability, the US Passive House Institute, and the Vermont Energy... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
strategies for nonprofit and for-profit organizations differ. 2:30 p.m. EDT OPEN TO ALL Staying Connected: How to Expand and Strengthen Your Social Circle After 50 Hosted by the Class of 1994 + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides In... View Details