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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

while building platforms to educate leaders and catalyze action on this complex and expanding set of issues. Play Video duration: 3:02 Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) works to help... View Details

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2026 J 3.0 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing International Trade and Investment Meg Rithmire Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies Matthew Weinzierl... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

change. This is not just a moral or social imperative (though it is, of course, both); increasingly, it’s an economic imperative, too. With BiGS, we see a number of ways that our faculty, through their research and thought leadership, can... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

05 Sep 2018
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The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

citizenship and part of a firm’s social responsibility. So, in addition to gaining a competitive advantage, companies that pay employees to contribute to open source are improving their image and, potentially, their ability to recruit top... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for Youssef Boutros-Ghali, an MIT-educated economist and advocate for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt’s social security and pension... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the commercial artist and illustrator. 19 U.S. Steel’s marketing division frequently used photographs in advertisements targeted to industrial users of steel in trade journals and national magazines. Distinct from marketing, the... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES Syrup works by integrating a retailer’s data—historical and real-time transactions and inventory, e-commerce patterns, and marketing and promotion plans, among other things—with weather, search, and View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

25 Mar 2015
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Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

or sculpture from the Tate collection, chosen based on the location, weather, and ambient noise surrounding the shaker. “Often there isn't a lot of strategic thinking behind their decision to be in social media” The provocative app is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Career Support - Business & Environment

to connect with alumni: HBS Initiatives Mentor Match Program Current MBA students can email us to join our online platform that facilitates ongoing connections between students interested in pursuing careers at the intersection of... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

just think about 100 million people watching the Super Bowl, if you can get another 100 million people posting on Facebook, that's really powerful and very compelling. So, the reach that social media View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of Rakuten, she reveals three... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Francesca Gino Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (in press) Abstract Dishonest behavior can have various psychological... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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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01 May 2019
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What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to redouble its efforts and be totally... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

13 Apr 2016
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Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

to think the firm has failed rather than evolved. GETTING THE LABEL RIGHT How the firms dealt with labels, which often were attached to them by external sources like analysts or the media, also factored into a company’s success. As onlookers tried to make sense of the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS... View Details

24 Aug 2020
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How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

professor. They surveyed 1,770 members of Alignable, an online platform for small-business leaders. To supplement that small-business data, a second survey was completed by 70 business economists belonging to the National Association for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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