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07 Mar 2014
Blog Post

Let’s Go! Highlights from the Dynamic Women in Business Conference

equality issues have been generating an enormous amount of dialogue in the past few years, and the purpose of this year’s conference was to leverage the positive wellspring from this discourse toward action. With the theme "Let’s Go!”, attendees were View Details

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Steven B. Belkin | Baker Library

companies. Belkin encourages his employees to develop and launch new businesses as part of the TNG mission. He described his formidable career in business and his mentoring of emerging entrepreneurs in a video interview at his home in... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

HBS Business Plan Contest

HBS Service Leadership Fellows Program encourages graduating students to gain experience in nonprofit and public-sector organizations through a one-year fellowship program. The 2004 fellows were chosen from 71 applicants. Fellows and... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

twenty-first century, and then to tell us what they hope will be the most fertile areas of business research between now and 2020. But we didn't leave it there. Professor Jim Heskett is moderating a similar discussion with HBS Working Knowledge readers, and we View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Jul 2024
News

On Balance

companies that want to perform a gender-pay-gap audit and a campaign to encourage men to take parental leave, “because we know that changes the dynamic of who does what in the home, in terms of unpaid labor, and facilitates women... View Details

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Sophia Virani

help me explore." Advantages of a joint degree "The joint degree prepares me to practice medicine and direct management," Sophia says. "The MBA component will refine my thinking—it will encourage me to synthesize... View Details

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Leadership Collaborative | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

designed for alumni in social impact sectors including nonprofit, public service, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. It is not designed for professionals in impact investing or large scale for-profit social enterprises. Our goal is that this group becomes a... View Details

07 Oct 2021
News

Bringing Light to the Fight

Today the foundation remains focused on education—it’s “an old message but it’s still the right message,” Smyth concludes—but also has expanded into patient support and research, becoming the biggest nongovernmental funder, and into advocacy. With View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

impact of a robust get out the vote effort. The trio visited the country multiple times to develop and roll out a text message campaign to encourage voting, which ultimately reached 2 million—about 40 percent—of Kenya’s registered voters.... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Dec 2002
News

Serving through TechnoServe

encourages its clients to “look at production as a business and figure out what their competitive advantage is,” Tierney explains. He has led efforts to modernize the organization, which was founded in 1968 and is based in Connecticut.... View Details

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Michael Schrader

encouraged me to step outside of my comfort zone and take on a new and exciting challenge in starting and building Vaxess. More importantly, these inspirational women and men have continued to support this journey as we've encountered new... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government

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Mark your calendars! HBS Executive Education reunions are back on campus!

your email contacts to receive communications Update your personal contact information in the Alumni Directory See other alumni who are planning to attend Use your alumni email to contact your classmates and encourage them to attend... View Details

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MD/MBA | MBA

encouraged to enter and complete a medical residency, or other kind of postgraduate clinical training, upon graduation from the joint degree program. MD/MBA graduates are expected to provide the informed leadership necessary for... View Details

02 Dec 2017
News

The Lines That Divide America

resentment and the socioeconomic divide. “These emotions have a pernicious and corrosive effect on American ideals,” Nohria warns. In the article he points to several efforts currently being undertaken by Harvard Business School that View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

06 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Africa Business Club

visibility of Africa on campus. We do this by promoting the development of cases that cover African countries, businesses, and protagonists within the curriculum. We also encourage dialogue on economic, political, and social issues in... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum

lend his business savvy to help found a museum dedicated to American writers similar to the Dublin Writers Museum of O’Hagan’s native Ireland. The museum, which includes a children’s books exhibit, encourages visitor engagement. The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2002
News

Porter Course Goes Abroad

encouraged to add local sessions, and the course also involves locally focused student group projects. Teaching the course was different, says Sölvell, because all pre-class faculty meetings, classroom case discussions, lectures, and... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Training managers in the developing world

aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in Africa that define themselves as a... View Details

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

environment. By doing so, they benefit not only their own shareholders and stakeholders but their homeland. Thus, these firms must be encouraged to act as incubators, spawning new ventures that provide outlets for talented workers.... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

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