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- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
we’re hoping to build a vibrant community of HBS alumni to help educate and inspire and empower LGBT alums around the world, while fostering relations with the school as well.” View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 2013
- Report
Lasting Impact: A Business Leader's Playbook for Supporting America's Schools
By: Jan Rivkin, Sara Allan, Allen Grossman and Nithya Vaduganathan
This booklet provides a practical approach for business leaders seeking to understand the complex issues involved in transforming PK-12 education. It lists actions that businesses can take, as well as best practices that they can follow, to help educators create... View Details
Keywords: PK - 12 Education; U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Education; Business and Community Relations; Cooperation; United States
Rivkin, Jan, Sara Allan, Allen Grossman, and Nithya Vaduganathan. "Lasting Impact: A Business Leader's Playbook for Supporting America's Schools." Report, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, November 2013.
- April 2011
- Case
Shell Nigeria: The WikiLeaks Cables
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Rebecca M. Henderson and Matthew Preble
In November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing the first of hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables that it had obtained. Among the thousands of cables published by early 2011, were several that shed light on Royal Dutch Shell's operations in Nigeria and its... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Generation; Operations; Communication Technology; Crime and Corruption; Metals and Minerals; Ethics; Energy Industry; Nigeria
Sucher, Sandra J., Rebecca M. Henderson, and Matthew Preble. "Shell Nigeria: The WikiLeaks Cables." Harvard Business School Case 311-084, April 2011.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
partnership with Harvard and MIT—brings free online middle skill-boosting and job-training courses to Boston's community centers, libraries, and high schools. As Boston Mayor Tom Menino's chief of staff Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004) noted,... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
come. Related Reading: A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility When CEOs Become Activists What do you think? How much of an... View Details
- November 2013 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
A Long, Bumpy and Unfinished Road: Education Reform in Memphis, Tennessee
By: Allen Grossman, J. Puckett and Nithya Vaduganathan
In 2010 the Memphis City School District merged with the neighboring Shelby County School system under the supervision of a single board of education and superintendent. It promised much more than just administrative synergies—it was an opportunity to change a... View Details
Keywords: Education Reform; Public Education; Business Engagement; Public Sector; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; Tennessee
Grossman, Allen, J. Puckett, and Nithya Vaduganathan. "A Long, Bumpy and Unfinished Road: Education Reform in Memphis, Tennessee." Harvard Business School Case 314-064, November 2013. (Revised February 2016.)
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
When Miami-based venture capital firm ANIMO Ventures launched in 2018, cofounder Nico Berardi (MBA 2018) traveled weekly. “It was 80 percent San Francisco, maybe 20 percent New York,” he recalls. But the Argentine-born Berardi loved the energy in Miami. Now, in the era... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2020 prompted reflection on how we could expand Edwards' active community engagement to provide even more support for our employees and communities, particularly as it relates to social equity and justice,"... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner's Perspective
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Dylan Slack, Yuxin Chen, Chenhao Tan and Sameer Singh
As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as healthcare, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function effectively alongside these models. Explainability is one way to bridge the gap between... View Details
Keywords: Natural Language Conversations; AI and Machine Learning; Experience and Expertise; Interactive Communication; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Dylan Slack, Yuxin Chen, Chenhao Tan, and Sameer Singh. "Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner's Perspective." Working Paper, 2022.
- 3 Dec 2014
- Other Presentation
The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value
This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that... View Details
Keywords: Society; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Civil Society or Community; Business and Community Relations; Government and Politics
Porter, Michael E. "The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value." Porter Prize for Excellence in CSV, Seoul, South Korea, December 3, 2014.
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has become a hot field, with cities... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Baghdad offices that killed 22 of our staff and injured over 100 more. I don’t think the world can afford to stand back and say to the coalition forces, “You created the mess, so you fix it.” I think the international community has enough... View Details
- March 2013
- Case
First Green Bank: Bringing Bloom to Desert Landscapes
By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
First Green Bank is a bank start-up in the midst of the financial crisis which aims to promote sustainability while making money as a bank. The case presents an ethical dilemma as it considers a loan to an arms manufacturer. View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Crisis; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Ethics; Banking Industry; United States; Florida
Marquis, Christopher, and Juan Almandoz. "First Green Bank: Bringing Bloom to Desert Landscapes." Harvard Business School Case 413-073, March 2013.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization
By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but re-nationalized the main water company in 2006. We study beliefs about the benefits of the privatization of water services amongst low and middle income groups immediately after the 2006 nationalization.... View Details
Keywords: Privatization; Public Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Values and Beliefs; Public Opinion; Utilities Industry; Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14483, November 2008.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) believes stories “are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t. But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people and support the push for change through policy.” As the author of the New York Times best... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the Black View Details
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
activities are only for niche industries and companies.) “It’s not only about the investments,” Serafeim says. “It’s about the overall sentiment that society has, and the perception the public has, about the impact that you’re having on society.” Often, a single event... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
Nan Morrison and Sally Wood It takes a village to raise a game-changing non-profit, and Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) and Sally Wood (MBA 1983) have found a community of support among their HBS friends and fellow alumni. "I'm proud of my whole... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United... View Details
- February 2016
- Teaching Note
Akın Öngör's Journey
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
The case of Akın Öngör's Journey describes a highly successful former CEO with stellar leadership skills, who transformed a bank in Turkey into one of the world's best, steered it to contribute to his country's social agenda, influenced business practices of other... View Details