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- 02 Oct 2012
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Green Pioneer
School, and the Harvard University Center on the Environment, making important contributions. In April, after four years of research, the Program released “Envision,” a rating system for major government infrastructure projects that helps... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
fruits, which she then sells at the local market. "The impact of these loans is extraordinary," says Barry. "Poor women have shown that they are the world's best customers, repaying their loans and using their increased income to feed,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
delve into the root causes of why the political system is failing and propose solving the problem by changing the election system. America’s political system is designed as a duopoly, where only two parties... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
says. “And in a system that requires low levels of taxation, free markets, and privatization of state assets, you have a paradox. The paradox is that the state is in less of a position to act. The state is no longer a redistributor of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
also considered the impact of business as a poverty alleviator and whether business engagement alone is sufficient to lift individuals out of poverty broadly. “The aim of the conference and the resulting, just-published book, Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
component to the Reimagining Capitalism course this year. He calls the module “What can I do now?” That’s the question he was getting from students after they read cases such as “JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership,” in which executives for the airline... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
woes. But the improbably massive, Gothic-style building on a hilltop at 3220 The Alameda rises far above its gritty surroundings, as does the reputation of the school it houses. In an urban school system that has struggled for decades,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
forces that will shape China’s economy during the next 20 years? The tension between state-owned and private enterprises is a concern, as is the need for continuous innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship under a system of government... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
social, and financial performance. Those societal pressures are absolutely critical. Look at the level of inequality and the impacts of climate change—the system is not sustainable, it has to change. Maybe... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
solving the world’s problems, not creating the world’s problems?” HBS Club of the GCC ThinkTank Drawing from his recent book, Polman said a net-positive company takes responsibility for its total impact on society, which extends... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
its pragmatic use of the profit motive and market mechanisms to make a sustainable, self-perpetuating, and effective impact on the lives of poor people. When the ACCION opportunity came along, it forced me to confront those late-night... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Removing Barriers
welcomed at HBS: The experience “broadened my horizons in ways I couldn’t have imagined,” Anita says. Indian educational institutions, she adds, are relatively homogeneous, with a pedagogical system that is centered on the top-down model... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
incoming students to meet fellow classmates and learn about social enterprise related opportunities and resources.” SEPTEMBER 4 Doug Scatterday, senior director of Facilities, and Rich Stewart, director of Facilities, discuss the changes the School has made to its... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
commercial scale. Verdant, for example, is currently raising funds to develop turbines twice as large for deployment off the coast of Wales, where Smith anticipates generating megawatts of electricity by 2025. And he has his eyes on an even larger prize: Once the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
changing the field of medicine. In the past several decades, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the health care sector has made it possible for computer systems and diagnostic machines to learn and problem solve, mimicking... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie