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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

the mid-19th century, the family partnership evolved from a general store to the fourth-largest investment banking house in the country. HBS Entrepreneurs Collection In 2001, Harvard Business School initiated a two-year oral history View Details

14 Dec 2015
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Mobilizing Action on Climate Change and Water Quality

Micheal C. Kennedy (MBA 1985) is director of Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency. In this video, he talks about the need for public education and cooperation in areas of water quality and how to combat climate change. “When I was... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

consulting industry, cutting-edge thinkers in the 1990s began to ask why a similar approach couldn’t be applied to the social sector. The conversation took root in places like HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative; Bain; the Edna McConnell... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

agricultural product both domestically and abroad. northeastern us EIQ unifies public and private financing with a project-based approach to make more energy projects happen. EIQ's global, geo-coded solution... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

outcome methods don't seem to apply? Performing the research to answer these questions led to the publication of this book. It is based on project records and interviews exploring the experiences of men and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2011
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Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation

lead donor and passionate supporter of the Montana Legacy Project deal that purchased over 310,000 acres of forest land from the Plum Creek Timber Company in the western part of the state. The Wyss Foundation’s initial gift of $25 million... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

Economics; Brigitte C. Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds, with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. The team has completed... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

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Phillip Michael Strazzulla

education. Every single day, you are having conversations with five or six CEOs of fast-growing companies. Many of those conversations are one on one. For a 24-year old, it was an unbelievable experience. At... View Details

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

tremendous. Beyond that, at the outset, there was some mutual antagonism and posturing; the scientists assuming MBAs only care about the bottom line, and the MBAs thinking projects would move along much more efficiently if the scientists... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

conversion factors to translate these into GHG emissions. But to calculate their Scope 3 emissions for materials and components they procure, not all suppliers are willing or able to share this information. “LCAs tend to be quite... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2005
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Baker’s back

itself had become outdated. Two aspects of Baker that needed immediate attention were its lack of climate controls (uncomfortable for patrons, devastating for collections) and the inaccessibility of its stacks. Conversations took off from... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

that make achieving the agreement’s goals so difficult. “I wrote the case to better understand how so many of us view climate change as both a global threat and one of the most important issues facing business in the 21st century, and yet so little has been done about... View Details

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Dan Hall Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details

16 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?

graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive salary. We checked in with the Social Enterprise Initiative’s Director of Programs, Margot Dushin, to... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to undertake the work collectively. Because the View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

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Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Education Courses Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation (DNPI) Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute PELP Accelerating Board... View Details

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HBS Art Program & Collections | Baker Library

O'Grady, Martha Rosler, Doris Salcedo, Larry Sultan, Carrie Mae Weems, Marie Watt, and David Wojnarowicz. Displayed prominently throughout the campus, this engaging collection aims to encourage conversation and to inspire students to... View Details

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details