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01 Mar 2007
News

Winter Break Just Got Educational

IMMERSION EXPERIENCES: Students who traveled to New Orleans spent time working on Habitat for Humanity redevelopment projects. Winter break this year gave some 200 MBA students an opportunity to participate in one of three pilot, noncredit Immersion View Details

Keywords: immersion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

24 Apr 2014
News

Private capital, public good

private capital to fund preventative social programs that address various challenges, such as recidivism, health disparities, and homelessness. If pre-specified program outcomes are achieved, View Details

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

powerful, but in a centralized, technocratic system, will be very powerful, because somebody has to do the research that informs all of this. The final group is the human resource people in corporations. They turn to limiting the choice of health care View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

first dimension relates to the degree to which the collaborative network is "open" verses "closed." The second dimension relates to the degree to which the governance structure for collaboration is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

Programs An outdated regulatory system designed for the traditional banking system was one of a number of important factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis, Professor David Scharfstein says. “The financial system had evolved over 30... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

firms’ incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50643 Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
News

Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

The 2010 January Term break at HBS was no time to kick back for the 403 first- and second-year MBA students who signed up for the Immersion Experience Program (IXP). In search of the kind of deep understanding that can come only from... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

(IIJA), the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Representatives from key government departments—Treasury, Commerce, Energy, and the White House—joined forces with leaders from finance, manufacturing, and... View Details

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Strategic Plan | Information Technology

Service Delivery Improvement Plan (completed) 2. Design Sustainable Technology Architecture 2.01: Baker Architecture Modernization Program 2.02: Cloud Program 2.03: Configuration Management Database (CMDB)... View Details

01 Aug 2019
News

Investing for Good

arrangement to deliver social value and financial value. “The social impact bond allows government to transfer the risk of performance of particular social programs to the investors. So in the event of a... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55030 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Career Coach

Laurie Matthews

it all very human and worth your time. Besides her MBA, Laurie has a Master's in Education from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and is a graduate of the Leadership Coaching Certificate program at Georgetown. Her BA in View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Hospitality; Retail

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

Natural Resources Center Harvard University Center for the Environment Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Sustainability Science Program “In effect it would become politically acceptable because it would enhance economic... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

Government Needs To Reach An Agreement With Creditors Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is right that the old political establishment corrupted Greek institutions and left the country bankrupt, and that the View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

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Kiernan Schmitt Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future... View Details

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Kay Mathers Archives | Social Enterprise