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30 Jul 2025
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Play with Purpose

event. Even outside the stadium, he remembers games as a communal experience, effectively shutting down the city on Sundays. Harris led a purchase of the Washington Commanders in 2023, and he takes the responsibility for stewarding that... View Details

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Developing the Materiality Matrix at Telefónica

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Asun Cano-Escoriaza

Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world and headquartered in Spain, has been issuing a corporate sustainability report since 2002. In its 2011 Sustainability report, the company included a "materiality matrix," and was one of only five... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Strategy; CSR; Corporate Social Responsibility; Communication Technology; Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Telecommunications Industry; Spain

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IT Strategy: HBS IT Website Provides Easier Access to News and Support | Information Technology

expertise from Marketing and Communications as part of the work being done to refresh all HBS websites through the Web Content Management System Program. The new platform brings standardization, consistency, and control for site owners.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Jason Cho | MBA

drive societal impact. Professional goals: I have a vision: to bring more 'seon,' or good, to the world. I am building a community of innovators who can envision and build progress from 0 to 1 and create a positive View Details

21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

as well as admitted students and some in the application process. It was a chance for us to reconnect and for the new students to learn more about the Latino community at HBS. It was fantastic.” HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

Foods Market regularly stocks EARTH’s bananas, dried fruits, and cobranded coffee. Outreach and Impact In his current role, Condo spends about half of his time on the road, meeting with members of the school’s extended View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

organized in two categories: competitions and collaborative communities. His work has an impact both on practice, by helping partners solve difficult innovation dilemmas, and on theory, by optimizing design parameters needed to engineer... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

Leaders Program, which he helped to develop. A Supplement to Manual Tracing See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how the digital revolution has improved health care delivery and discovery.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

Mawilmada’s roommate. “As a kid, I’d get a steady dose of, ‘You need to start thinking beyond yourself. There’s so much you can do in terms of impacting society.’ As a result, I actually did grow up thinking that, and felt it was my... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

African American Directors Forum, which connects companies with Black board candidates and builds community among Black board members across the country. Motley’s Pittsburgh network has also drawn him into the affordable-housing space.... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Oct 2019
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Training Principals to Build Great Schools

with two more in development. Courses are delivered via HBS Online so principals can log on when it’s convenient for them. The program is spurring a professional community across the country. “Being a principal can be a lonely job,”... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations

19 Dec 2016
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Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground

restaurants, and neighborhood bakeries in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Somerville, Mugford told the Boston Globe. And the experience has been eye-opening. “The projects I’ve worked on for boards took months and months,” said Lia Prendergast (MBA 2017), who worked... View Details

Keywords: retail

01 Jun 2023
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Action Plan: Net Proceeds

supply chain and certification company, to address the plastic pollution he saw in Haiti and other communities around the world. Goodwin had originally traveled to Haiti under the auspices of Executives Without Borders, which he helped... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

26 Mar 2015
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Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings

Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co., a family-owned commercial construction company, is helping Houston become a greener city. “We in the commercial construction business have become much more aware of the View Details

01 Mar 2016
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@Soldiers Field

China’s one-child policy might impact the real estate market, as well as his opinion on the American presidential race. (Dongik Lee) (Dongik Lee) In December, the Boston Redevelopment Authority officially approved plans for HBS’s new... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

provides capital from a pool of donations to a portfolio of curated organizations whose ethos align with four pillars of purpose: justice system reform, education parity, health and wellness access, and community outreach and social... View Details

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Ralph Johnson

education. In what ways has HBS impacted your career? The big thing is access to so many opportunities, and to so many people who have been in various roles and have helped me understand what those roles are really like. Through my peers,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

24 Apr 2014
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Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry

people in 45 countries around the world. Carroll also launched initiatives to improve health and education in the localities where the company operates. Her compassion, strategic vision, and business acumen had a deep impact not just on... View Details

11 Jun 2015
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Making connections at Harvard and beyond

organizations, and ideas—at the Business School and beyond—in ways that will maximize their positive impact on the world. “One of the things I admire most about our graduates is their tendency to go wherever there are opportunities to... View Details

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