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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Although 40 percent of WPP's business still comes from the United States—a reflection of the continuing dominance of this country's multinationals and financial services firms—Sorrell's frequent visits to what he calls "faster growing... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several years, there has been a View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
and multicultural entrepreneurs. “We were the first Wall Street firm to do this,” said Harris. “There was no blueprint. We tapped our personal networks to get the first companies. We were five-for-five with our first cohort. And then once we started, we had flow. And,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
social enterprise.” To a lesser degree, the FT also rewards schools that turn out MBAs with high-paying jobs in financial services, basing 40 percent of the ranking on salary growth three years out. Meanwhile, the paper’s editorial pages... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
can not always be positive. No rose gardens. So this experience of mine helped me very much. JH: Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) is treasurer and COO at the Ford Foundation, enabling the organization's grantmaking program as it leverages a $16 billion endowment to... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
orientation for the students to help demystify Harvard,” says Comer. “I told them their ‘mentors are ordinary folks who have done some extraordinary things in their careers, and now they are here to help you launch your career.’” Students... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
industries, such as organic agriculture, grew up to serve these and other demands. And individual business leaders, experimenting with forms of social entrepreneurship, developed product offerings and built firms that were intended to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
have distilled six counterintuitive practices these organizations use to improve the world. They offer lessons for readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers. The... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be By Katy Milkman (PHDIT 2009) Portfolio Set audacious goals. Foster good habits. Create social support. You’ve surely heard such advice before. If you’ve ever tried to change or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in two significant ways. The first was purpose was like a compass, it was an View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
They changed their tune and soon dominated the market. Turns out, it’s much more about understanding the workflow in a small business, and computers do only what you tell them to do. And, many times, it’s really the business that has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and... View Details