Community Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

2014
Working Paper

Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis, Luc Renneboog and Sunny Li Sun

We argue that the language spoken by corporate decision makers influences their firms' social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future.... View Details

Keywords: Language; Future-Time-Reference; Categories; Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Communication; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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24 Apr 2014
News

Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world

products are sold at Whole Foods, specialty stores, and online. Endline’s approach to chocolate is “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as sweetriot’s packaging feature artwork submitted by art schools and View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

No Time Like the Present

Africa Health Holdings which works to improve the health care system in West and East Africa and has 38 facilities, 52 community outreach programs, and serves more than 500,000 patients; chairman of Golden Palm Investments, an View Details

30 Mar 2022
News

Giving Hope and Comfort

sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. About 25 percent of Hope and Comfort’s inventory comes through direct donations—from corporations, from hygiene drives hosted by schools, religious organizations, and View Details

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University project to point the way toward... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Communications; Communications; Communications

11 Apr 2018
News

The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

of The Mission Continues? “I knew about The Mission Continues through my membership in the veterans group at the Kennedy School. A year after graduating from HBS, I was living in San Antonio and looking for a geographic change. I wanted to find a job that would allow... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

development, we strongly believe that the delivery of water and sanitation services to the city of Manila significantly affects the quality of life of the public, especially those in marginalized communities. This opportunity to have a developmental View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

13 Feb 2023
News

Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science

following completion of the atrium's construction. "Harvard Medical School is a world leader in health care innovation, translational research, and cutting-edge discovery, and it continues to have an immense impact on the health and... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Bridging the Gap

limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them. The pandemic has laid bare and even exacerbated inequities in... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Closing the Opportunity Gap

Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92) used the wealth he acquired in the 1990s Internet boom to realize a longtime goal. He started a special school to help disadvantaged young adults find careers in the corporate world. Chertavian’s Boston-based program, called Year Up,... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Willa Zhou

the first of her two pre-HBS years, Willa worked on The Movement, a free, outdoor-exercise and community health program in San Francisco, which was based on her undergraduate research on health and well-being. "I had interviewed over... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media; Tech

23 May 2018
News

Winning Bid

of Ghana) and American mother fostered a strong commitment to service and community through their shared vocation as pastors. He majored in business at Taylor University, a small Christian school in Upland, Indiana, and worked as a... View Details

22 Apr 2021
News

Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship

Appalachian Community Capital, a small business lender for underserved communities; and Genevieve Martin, Executive Director of Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation, which works on second-chance employment for individuals View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Profile

Kamen Bliznashki

contributes to a well-rounded, cross-functional set of abilities, and the case method imbues a sense of humility, an open mind, and an ability to succinctly construct a persuasive argument. And, the community of classmates, alumni, and... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2019
News

The HBS Fund

Most alumni gifts go to the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can spend immediately on both core priorities and new initiatives. Your gifts support the people and programs that have a tremendous impact on business... View Details

16 Jan 2014
News

Learning from Helping Others

things happen to people and they are forced to live off of food stamps or go to soup kitchens and food pantries to get their meals," she says. The New Jersey native recalled that her own earliest altruistic efforts—performing Gilbert and Sullivan musicals at nursing... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

among graduates aiming for both success in business and beneficial impact on the world around them. They have come to believe that one can either succeed in business or enhance society—by expanding economic opportunity or by improving... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Jun 1998
News

How the Ron Brown Award Was Born

ceremony.(photograph by Dotti Stone) Companies submitting projects for the award must be engaged in activities that significantly promote employee and/or community development and meet specific criteria. For example, a company's... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a group of investigators from a wide... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 1997
News

Taylor R. M. Keen

tell you, means "those who move against the current," and for Keen, who is always stretching the conventional thinking in whatever community he travels, the name couldn't be more fitting. Spending most of his childhood on his parents'... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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