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- 16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account
financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s acquisition, she founded Boston Common Asset Management, in 2003. By the fall of 2020, Boston Common had $3 billion under management and a mission to be, as... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
needed someone with his business acumen to execute them. “I was a 50-year-old person when I got that call about social entrepreneurship, but I stepped onto the playing field,” says Crane, who is now 63. “My initial reluctance was overcome... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
how to reignite that flame. The former Goldman Sachs banker and Portuguese secretary of state has his work cut out for him. The EU’s 2012 Community Innovation Survey found that while nearly half of European companies claimed innovation View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
both communities and businesses in the coming decades, HBS professors are making a significant contribution to the urban recovery movement. Building Sustainable Communities Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
feel very proud of their work." For Horn, these social and cultural activities help him keep a sense of perspective in the mercurial movie business. For Horn, these social and... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
initiative. “For many years, a significant number of people at the School have pursued a range of activities in this arena,” Clark wrote in a memo addressed to the HBS community last fall. “Richard, working closely with a faculty advisory... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
continued despite school closures, including developing free, printable reading and math activity packs in English and Spanish. It also developed teacher guides to keep K–8 students learning even if they didn’t have reliable internet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
When Pearson arrived on the scene, Outward Bound was running an independent middle school for boys on the island as well as hosting week-long expeditions for Boston public school students and teachers, focused on confidence building, problem solving, and commitment to... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
NY Club’s Senior Program makes the connection It’s been a little over five years since Len Polaner (MBA 1954) and a small committee of like-minded alumni in the HBS Club of New York launched the first Seniors Program, a series of social... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
comfortable home in the Boston area, and their children didn’t want for material things. The Feingolds had long been active in their community—Jeff had volunteered for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island in college, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
social enterprise and was an active member of the Entertainment and Media and Social Enterprise clubs. “HBS is a great learning lab,” he says. “You can immediately apply what... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Professors Thompson, Healy Remembered
social responsibility. Healy was an authority on labor relations and arbitration who joined the faculty in 1946. He remained active in high-level dispute resolution while teaching at HBS and was the coauthor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
lives, careers, and volunteer activities embody the finest examples of public service and the Jeffersonian ideal of citizen involvement. Among this year’s other recipients was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Before... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
is located in Dudley Square, Roxbury’s commercial hub and the intersection of several major streets — there’s a quiet hum of activity in the open, airy room where twelve BCC staffers are beginning their day. Since its founding in 1985,... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Business as a Force for Good in Society
Illustration by Dana Smith In a world facing myriad complex challenges, Harvard Business School is actively exploring how capitalism is working, what leadership role business can and should play in making it work better, and how business... View Details