Social Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2024
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Outside Voices

Afroditi Xydi (MBA 2022), especially considering that 67 percent of those who left hold advanced degrees. Xydi, who earned a master’s in engineering from MIT, cofounded the nonpartisan Deon Policy Institute in 2022 with the aim of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

17 Sep 2020
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HBS Goes Back To School

Photo: Hensley Carrasco SEPTEMBER 17 The HBS Social Enterprise community welcomed first-year students with a welcome video which features insights and advice from students, administrative leaders, and second-year students. “The Kick-off,”... View Details

10 Jan 2013
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From Wall Street to Visual Art

faces the boulevard where protests over social and economic inequality began last year. "The dialogue, or lack thereof, created among the heads points to a need for a conversation around the world today, a need for us to reach out to one... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success

new public-private partnership to launch the city’s first cooking school. Within a few months of her hire, the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI) had purchased an abandoned, 93,000-square-foot building in downtown New... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services

28 Dec 2016
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In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)

the Harvard Stem Cell Institute as well as service on the advisory committee for the Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. Bowes was named an HBS Alumni Achievement Award winner in 2009, and his gift to the School in 2012... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

companies, and later served as a director at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LLP, before joining Genzyme in 1997. While at Hale and Dorr, she assumed leadership roles on the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
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Takeaways

make additional efforts to infuse scaling into the DNA of their business models, and institute appropriate strategies for recruiting and retaining talent, leveraging financing and partnerships for scaling impact.” —Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets

funding but also entrench best corporate governance practices while accelerating wealth creation and distribution, leading to better social cohesion," says Oteh. Previously, her distinguished international career included serving as group... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally

founding of schools around the globe, including the Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE) in Costa Rica; the Philippines' Asian Institute of Management (AIM); the Indian Institute... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details

30 Jan 2018
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Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

Coleman MBA 2010), managing director and chief administrative officer for alternatives and institution at Invesco and board member of the National Monuments Foundation Erik Pickering (MBA 1999), president of Tracers Information... View Details

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

efforts of the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

develop an impact investing conference in Shanghai. On December 19, 150 pioneers in social enterprise and impact investing, other practitioners, and academics in China gathered for engaging discussions about the topic. “As a native of... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Health IT at the Bedside

Sachin H. Jain (MBA ’07, MD ’08,) is a special assistant to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Obama administration.Â He was previously a resident physician at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a member of the faculty of the View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Global Leaders

and long-term value creation. In addition to this, he is cofounder and chairman of Voxtra, a social impact investment firm that focuses on improving the livelihoods of those in the agriculture sector in East Africa. He and his wife,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank

Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details