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IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries

Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; India

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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society

the perspectives of global leaders whose values are consistent with the mission of HBS BiGS. Tune in to hear insightful conversations with CEOs from across the region about businesses' pivotal role in addressing economic inequality in... View Details

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that... View Details

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon... View Details

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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

mobilizing the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions. Climate Policy Initiative - An independent non-profit organization whose mission is to help governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive growth... View Details

11 Mar 2019
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Enabling Big Thinking

physics. “Because of the mission of the trust, it suited us to support research at HBS,” says Cameron, who recently took over for his father as chair of the trust and is also board chair of the educational philanthropy SHINE. Guiding the... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Q&A with Janet Cahill

know that HBS is using my gifts wisely? HBS employs a disciplined budget process—making trade-offs when necessary and focusing new investment in areas of strategic importance to extend the mission of the School. In the spirit of... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Technology Making HBS More Accessible

Deborah (MBA 1987) and Steve (MBA 1986) Quazzo Deborah (MBA 1987) and Steve (MBA 1986) Quazzo believe in the mission of Harvard Business School. “Educating leaders who will have a positive impact on their communities throughout the world... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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We Have Liftoff

area, and catch up with other teams passing through. Archway Health Advisors David Terry (MBA 1998) Describe your company in fewer than 140 characters: The mission of Archway Health Advisors is to fix health care through payment reform.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Rental and Leasing Services; Real Estate

01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center stage,” Brailer told some 300... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2011
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Letters to the Editor

mission in life. Often they kill peaceful Muslims who get in their way. In “Beacon of Liberty,” his My Two Cents column in the December Bulletin, Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) writes that Muslims “are all collectively paying for the... View Details

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

Stationers: Enabling Our Partners to Succeed Michael Beer and Russell EisenstatHarvard Business School Case 912-407 The case depicts a mission and values driven company. It describes the development of the firm over time, its leadership,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

the way businesses get paid, we can change the US economy. Sometimes people look at me like I’m a sandwich short of a picnic when I say that, but I know this can be done. We are on a mission to enable businesses of all sizes to have... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

HBS, notes Kim: “In order to fulfill its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, the School needs to produce educators who can disseminate relevant and rigorous research.” PRIMO administrator Marais Young,... View Details

20 May 2020
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Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global... View Details

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LaToya Marc

number of black case protagonists and promote training to counteract unconscious bias, a mission that she says, has received a great deal of faculty support. "It hasn't always been rosy, but my perspective and background is really... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Arum Kang

topics — discussions I've never had in any other setting. Among my sectionmates, I feel safe raising questions I've always wanted to ask, but couldn't." Pursing the higher mission Eventually, Arum would like to return to Asia to work... View Details

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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

successful personal careers are made subservient to the public good.” 3 The University, then, offered an opportunity to further legitimize the profession of business administration within its broader mission of serving society as a whole.... View Details

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Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

that can affect the lives of thousands of people, particularly the most vulnerable and marginalized. Following my year at the Mayor's Office, I returned to the Boston Foundation as Chief of Staff to deepen my impact at an organization whose View Details

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Institutional Voice | About

considered approaches at other universities. These efforts culminated in the Working Group’s report , containing a set of principles and recommendations that ground the use of institutional voice in the University’s mission of “seeking... View Details

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