Filter Results:
(390)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,233)
- People (3)
- News (390)
- Research (1,277)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (510)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,233)
- People (3)
- News (390)
- Research (1,277)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (510)
Sort by
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved ones with access to its care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
active community spread. We’re doing everything we can to try to minimize the impact, but I also think it’s incumbent upon us to do everything we can to address those social determinants as aggressively as... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
together with worthy causes to become a stepping stone to making our communities a better place to live. I also see social and community impact as having increasing value to recent alumni. If you aspire to build an engaged and vibrant... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
opportunity for their business. Now, there are very, very, very few CEOs who do not acknowledge that climate change both, represents a major challenge and a significant opportunity. And who are not actively positioning their companies for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
alum Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) presented the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award to conservation power couple Paul J. Zofnass (MBA 1973), founder of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and his wife, Renee E. Ring, COO of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
business as a profession, with the social implications and heightened sense of responsibility that goes with that.” Said Light, “This is an important aspect of HBS, and has been since our founding.” The conference, led by Alumni Chair... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
competition has heightened activity and stimulated change in these areas." Tufano adds that the proliferation of information and products has been so enormous that a key area of competition has become the battle to simplify this overload... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
ability to generate profit. There is no contradiction between social impact and good profitability; in fact, profitability is central to that social impact.” Eliminating, or even alleviating, global poverty... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
Silbert. “It seems counterintuitive, but it’s possible to be undernourished and overweight.” She adds: “If we all work together and commit resources, we can break the cycle of intergenerational poverty in urban America.” During her student days at HBS, Silbert joined... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be kidding me. So the first thing is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Matchabelli, the son of nobility in Georgia and an amateur chemist. He began blending perfumes for his friends at an antique shop in New York before founding his own perfume company in 1926 . The social importance of smelling and looking... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
new “blue ocean” opportunity for companies eager to activate diversity as a competitive advantage. Chitra: And when you talk about the opportunities and just going even another level deeper based on this tremendous research that you both... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
undertaking something much more serious, leading Xerox’s entry into the Chinese market and fearlessly chastising the company’s chairman for publicizing its activities in the press. Always up for a new challenge, she also began serving on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
not yet a partner, he was able to get Weinberg’s okay that a study of Goldman Sachs’s new business activities might be worth undertaking. The study was authorized on January 20, 1956, and completed several months later. But on the advice... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Unlocked, discover an everyday approach to increasing joy and momentum in life. Upgrade your process with neuroscience-informed tools, get unstuck on long-term projects, find expressions that naturally spur delight, explore the narrative of your own journey, View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
leading VC firm established in 2000 that focuses primarily on Indian or India-oriented companies. He describes a shift in confidence and a growing appetite for risk that is driving entrepreneurial activity at a pace not seen before. “The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
make for a lively discussion. Bohmer describes how TPS can force a clear understanding of each element of the production process — in this case, the treatment of a patient from intake to discharge. “Every activity is actually an... View Details