Foundations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

children, this opportunity wasn't the life I wanted at that point," says Jacobson, who resigned, then taught at HBS, consulted, and began to focus on philanthropy. She and Jon had started a family foundation and were interested in finding... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2003
News

Stan O’Neal

believer in the U.S. financial markets, O’Neal says that “despite some breaks in the system, the financial markets efficiently allocate capital to the best opportunities. This is the foundation of our society.” With offices at the World... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

broader based growth strategy. Overall, the discussion suggests that there are sufficient grounds to be skeptical that exports are the right foundation to build a growth agenda on. Exports play a role in growth but it is doubtful whether... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

(left) and solar-powered first-aid kit (right). Recently, SELCO Foundation and IKEA Foundation, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and various State Health Missions, launched a ground-breaking initiative... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

organize and the invitations you accept. There still may not be enough time to go around, but by resetting your collaboration patterns, you can make the most of the time you spend 'at work.' Jeffrey T. Polzer is the UPS Foundation... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

or growth-stage startup in a product management, business development, sales, or marketing role. "As someone who’s worked in a large company for the past 20-plus years, it gave me the foundation and vocabulary to engage more confidently... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professors William Sahlman Entrepreneurship Essentials Baker Foundation Professor "Entrepreneurship Essentials... View Details

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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online

within a subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization . We also offer the Credential of Readiness (CORe) . Our CORe program combines three courses— Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting —with a final exam to equip your company’s... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Marriott, adidas, Quiet Logistics, and Go Mobile. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Robert Simons Strategy Execution Baker Foundation... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

trajectories of both blockchain and artificial intelligence when growth is led by foundations rather than corporations. “This is playing itself out in real time,” Wu says. “Learning about new business models requires literature and cases.... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Sep 2014
News

Keeping Education in Check

public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

300 Academic Publications $ 140 m. Investment in Research Student Research Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from Family Foundations By: Simon Essig Aberg 02 JUN 2025 | Faculty & Research Are ESG Improvements Recognized?... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Build a foundation in macroeconomics to make more informed business decisions Identify the challenges and opportunities that government and politics can create for you and your business from a strategic... View Details

Research Summary

Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

20 Mar 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora

September 2021
Case

Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

1976, his partners elected him to the first of four three-year terms as their managing partner. Global expansion became a cornerstone of Daniel's leadership in the seventies and eighties, as he laid the foundation for the firm's... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

Lemann Foundation have proposed to improve the quality of Brazilian education at all levels," said Lemann Foundation CEO Denis Mizne. "This gift is in harmony with that strategy, which aims to develop... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology in 2011. 2010 Michael I. Norton : Won the 2010 Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for his paper with C.K. Morewedge, "When Dreaming Is... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

Foundation (BALF) has impacted the lives of thousands of underserved youth like Trejo in Arizona, and currently serves more than 14,000 middle, high school, and college students annually. Be A Leader programming—offered in partnership... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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