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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
robust direct link between CSR and financial performance” It is true that in areas such as environmentally sustainable practices, customers have been willing to pay responsible producers a premium for products; take organic cotton, for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
organization to go beyond "very good" and attain and sustain excellence. In his latest book, he shares his hard-won insights and reveals what it takes to be best in class in any industry. Tech and the City: The Making of New York's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
other part of the world, which serves as a powerful window into the constantly evolving nature of society. A Prolific Writer Dean Nohria has focused his research on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016
sustainability conferences "to skim speaker lists and identify interesting people." Finally, Cauvery returned to a tried and tested strategy of offering pro-bono special projects work for smaller startups with limited budgets,... View Details
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Partners - Managing the Future of Work
Partners Partners The Managing the Future of Work project thanks our partners, who play a key role in supporting our research helping business leaders, policy makers, and education and workforce institutions better navigate the unique... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
The research is part of the HBS US Competitiveness Project, launched in 2010 to assess structural challenges to the US economy and identify ways that leaders in business, labor, government, and academia can work together to address those... View Details
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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA
specifically interested in the area of biological sensors and the power they have to convert a biological response into an electrical signal. Through this conversion, analysis and research can be performed for improvement in medical areas... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
manufacturer for eyewear companies. It grew over the years. Ultimately, the company would realize that it had a “diamond” in its own backyard, a core business that had been in the picture all along. Focusing on that core, the Hilsinger team grew the company into a... View Details
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Eligibility & Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
organizations/management issues for profit organizations in which the mission and the core activities of the organization have a direct social purpose business approaches where the core focus is social impact, including environmental View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
recognized that conserved land has many embedded values: limited development (environmentally friendly real estate), sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestration potential, recreation (eco-tourism), water rights, and more. Profits for... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR
complex and multi-dimensional. We connect faculty, alumni, students, and staff to grapple with questions such as, “Are our students prepared to lead sustainable organizations?” “What do our alumni need to know about climate risk?” “How... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
she was cancer-free. While the Linns were relieved to win their battle, they could not shake their concern for other people who were in the midst of their own struggles with rare cancers, as there was an alarming shortage of treatment options available due to a lack of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
of organizations were very productively linked and in which significant value was being created, both for the collaborating nonprofits and for the businesses." A 1997 ISE research forum at the School spurred Austin to delve more deeply... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
that hunger, Sun & Swell was born in 2016. “We started with the mission of bringing healthier foods to the world,” says Flynn. But that goal quickly expanded as she began to research the grocery and packaged food industry. Packaged food... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge). The WDC would be a for-profit organization that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC... View Details