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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
transformational educational experience. “Fellowships bring together individuals from different circumstances who each have their own dreams of how they might make the world a better place,” notes Felix... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Next Level
remembers the room was silent, filled only with the stressed scribblings of the other candidates at their individual desks. Bond looked up and asked out loud: “Does anybody else think it’s strange that they’re basically giving us an SAT... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
while showing off an industrial refrigerator stacked with free-range eggs and 25-kilo blocks of Normandy butter. Trays of madeleines cool on racks. A few feet away, workers monitor a machine that wraps the tiny cakes individually in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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New Releases
renew the organization and its products. This new individualized corporation, they observe, requires a fundamentally different management approach that rejects the traditional "organization man" model in... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 14 Sep 2015
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Helping Investors Have an Impact
Philo Alto (MBA/MPA 2000) founded Asia Value Advisors to engage individuals and organizations in philanthropic ventures that create positive, sustainable impact. The advisory platform encourages cross-sector leadership and thinking among... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
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Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
things early in my career, so I found it very rewarding and look to continue that work. “One of the things I really enjoy about being a state representative is that you have the opportunity to deal with a lot of different areas. So in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
others, this may not be the case. If I monetarily incentivize volunteering, you might be less likely to volunteer because it is now more difficult to signal that you’re doing so because you’re nice. In my research, I’ve found that View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
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Impact: Toward the Greater Good
Recognizing that business is an important driver in creating prosperity both for individuals and for communities around the world, Harvard Business School educates leaders who have the capacity to address complex challenges and help... View Details
- 06 Mar 2023
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Dean Announces 2023 Alumni Achievement Award Honorees
Minister, 2012–2015 Stephen A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972) Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder, Blackstone For more than 50 years, HBS has honored individuals whose strategic vision drives their work, whose creativity and innovation inspire those... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
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Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) [Editor's note: This article was updated November 25, 2019] As former dean of External Relations, longtime faculty member Howard Stevenson met View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
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2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced
Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Alumni Achievement Award is given annually to a handful of alumni who represent the best traditions and highest aspirations of the School. For more than 50 years, HBS has honored View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
for individuals to save money safely, transfer funds inexpensively, and lift themselves out of poverty. So what is it that can make a much-needed service flourish? After studying 10 mobile money services—half successful, half not—in... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 11 May 2011
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The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
The groves of academe are fields rich with possibilities for memorial naming, from entire campuses and buildings to individual benches. HBS has honored individuals and groups of people by putting their names... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Capturing Human Capital
management approaches that proved to be all-powerful in earlier times. "Increasingly, the drive for global expansion must be to capture scarce sources of intellectual and human capital -- resources that can provide sustainable competitive advantage in the 21st century.... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
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Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio on the ‘Principles’ of Tough Love
than 3 million times. This month, Dalio will release a much-buzzed about book expanding on his tough-love philosophy, Principles: Life & Work. “Underneath what may seem like a clinical, emotionless approach is something different and far... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Pursuing a passion
really intriguing,” Amabile continues. “Frans found that highly creative individuals often have degrees in widely disparate disciplines, were raised in two or more cultures or countries, or have work experience in a couple of unrelated... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
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Real Talk
questions on the sensitive topic of race,” says Henderson. “They admitted their ignorance and expressed their desire to make a positive difference in their organizations and their communities." Seeing the value of sharing personal stories... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
responsibility of selecting and compensating leaders to each hospital board. This system has led to many of the same CEOs heading different hospitals within the system, making it easier to track whether an View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers