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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Other grants helped survivors begin to rebuild devastated areas, allowing them to return to their former villages rather than remain in settlement camps, explains Curran. Back on campus, Curran is working to place up to ten MBA students in summer jobs with NGOs in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
there I believe we have an opportunity, as much as a responsibility, to help people who don’t have the means, for whatever reason, to afford medicines that, in many cases, can be lifesaving. Last year we delivered to underdeveloped nations products and services View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
the amount of effort that would be needed to make “one cow one family” and the co-ops work would be high, but the value it could create was socially tremendous, and something I might have missed had I not... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
these relationships began to cross the line from traditional philanthropy to more strategic and mutually beneficial alliances, HBS professor James E. Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
amazed by how people have embraced the club. Allegra J. Young (MBA '95), founder and president of the HBS Alumni Association for Technology Industries, agrees that industry-specific clubs are of great value to the School's graduates.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the quality of food in Nigeria
mindsets among the local populace—that ‘Made in Nigeria’ products, especially food, are high quality and suitable for consumption—has proved difficult,” says Nwuneli. In addition, fragmented value chains, which are inefficient,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
in Denmark, where companies like Lego and Maersk are also owned by charitable foundations. In the case of Novo Nordisk, its foundation has a very specific mission: to support scientific, humanitarian, and social causes in health and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
in Chilean Patagonia. Drawing on what he gleaned at HBS, he says, "We learned that market-based solutions can be effective and efficient tools to augment the work of governments and NGOs on social issues." Adams, who sold his pioneering... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
educational videos. The line between business- oriented entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs is blurry and easily crossed. In fact, as I have seen in my research as part of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, service is one way to... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
that’s all. When there are interdependencies among the elements of the disruptive value network — meaning that one cannot occur unless others do — the speed of disruption is significantly accelerated when an integrated entity wraps its... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
tiny island where the people, despite their poverty, valued generosity over possessions. The hospital was little more than a hut, and patients slept on the floor. It was essential, rudimentary medicine, a stark contrast to my experience... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
yet another important partnership that business must learn to manage. "This research has led to larger questions about the role businesses should play in solving social problems. The next step is to look specifically into how business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
Glassman: A helping hand for deserving HBS students. Courtesy Robert Glassman Related Links MBA Fellowships Bob Glassman’s (MBA ’69) longstanding support of HBS—particularly the HBS student fellowship he established in 1984—is rooted in his commitment to society,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
the fast-casuals—the bulk of those losses were to competitors like Wendy’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Value was key, too. McDonald’s had dropped its Dollar Menu in 2013, and the rest of the market jumped. “Just as competitors were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
change that. Going forward, we need to view diagnostics, devices, and drugs in terms of the objective value that each creates. What about patient attitudes? Do you think most health-care consumers are ready to place their faith in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
image by John Ritter Twenty-five years after the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) was launched at HBS, the Bulletin sits down with professors on the forward edge of the movement: Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004), who developed the EC course... View Details