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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Digital Marketing & AI Workshop Course Number 1995 Lecturer Jacob Cook Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Overview This hands-on EC course covers the fundamentals of modern digital marketing, including driving traffic, earning conversions, and View Details

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

fixed effects, controls for the quantity of sustainability disclosure, and alternative ways of measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?

Fellowships, Elective Courses, Independent Projects, and the Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition. Becoming a Leadership Fellow is an opportunity to draw on those experiences and apply MBA skills in very high impact... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers

the social impact bond, an innovative approach to marrying social purpose with financial returns for investors. Still in the pilot stage in the UK, social impact bonds already have enthusiastic supporters... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

SolStock As of this July, what do Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein have in common? They’ve all published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Bernstein’s new paper, The Impact of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

01 Sep 2012
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Faculty Books

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth (MBA 2010), and Karen Dillon (HarperBusiness) At a time of intense personal reflection, Christensen, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, began... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1998
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Short Takes

stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA

importance of this research can have a great and tangible impact on the quality of life of society. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: As an INTEL-ISEF Finalist, I developed a system that View Details

22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

not occur in non-election years, or in private bank lending. I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

Information Type Recommended Resources Overview & News ImpactAlpha
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The Brief, as well as their... View Details

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Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

together on community challenges, recently working with the governor on the state’s foreclosure crisis. In Australia, the club regularly connects with its community of nonprofit fellows and measures the View Details

22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

questions, we must first ask, "increase (or decrease), measured on what basis?" There are, in fact, two distinct conceptual frameworks through which one can assess the impact of foreign bank entry.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Sep 2021
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Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Portrait Project

Aaron Chadbourne

resources to embrace life's toughest challenges, to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, and to measure impact one person at a time. I long to build organizations, to change public policy, and to... View Details

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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

OUR JOURNEY SEI has been through an inspirational journey from the founding of the term “social enterprise,” to current day innovations in our MBA and Executive Education curriculum and increased social impact efforts by our alumni. 2023... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Editor's Note

the Bulletin, a cavalcade of ideas, old and new, that have put the School on the intellectual map. Some of the articles will look back on outstanding accomplishments of distinguished faculty. Others, based on a series of faculty colloquia, will take View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

2025
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Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones

This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship; Environment; Climate Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

entrepreneurial way, measuring impact and having fun while doing it. HBS offers a global focus for people who are interested in exploring the intersection between the non-profit and for-profit worlds. View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Wide Screen Approach

Immersive Media “The single largest revenue stream for sports in North America is media rights. The sports industry is slowly adapting to new formats and platforms, which is having an immediate impact on the acquisition and retention of... View Details

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