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- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
“Lionrock is my revenge against addiction,” says Peter Loeb (MBA 1991), cofounder and chief executive of Lionrock Recovery, the largest online addiction recovery program in the US and Canada. “This venture is part of my healing.” A seasoned business innovator with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
perseverance, and teamwork. —Michael Brown (MBA 1970) via LinkedIn Curing Health Care Re: How can our health care system be fixed? This is all very well and good, but technical solutions will only work around the edges until two main View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- August 20, 2024
- Article
Sexual Assault Victims Face a Penalty for Adjacent Consent
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
Across 11 experimental studies (n = 12,257), we show that female victims of sexual assault are blamed more and seen as less morally virtuous if their assault follows voluntary sexual intimacy, a factor we term “adjacent consent”. Moreover, we illuminate a... View Details
Jordan, Jillian J., and Roseanna Sommers. "Sexual Assault Victims Face a Penalty for Adjacent Consent." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, no. 34 (August 20, 2024).
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
with the organization as it's building its capacity and figuring out its accountability priorities. But that's still relatively rare. The third issue is the difference between financial and social metrics.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
endeavors, as four articles in this issue illuminate. They present the past, present, and future of the School’s commitment. Credit for seeing the need to establish the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI)... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
One Love: Managing a Movement Against Relationship Violence
Keywords: Re: Thomas J. DeLong
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
cogent comment of the third panelist, HBS professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, that we have been choosing “takers” instead of “givers” as our government leaders, Gergen took issue with Kanter’s aforementioned critique of... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details
- September – October 1982
- Article
Can Industry Survive the Welfare State?
By: Bruce R. Scott
Scott, Bruce R. "Can Industry Survive the Welfare State?" Harvard Business Review 60, no. 5 (September–October 1982): 70–83.
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
in the Spring 2003 issue of California Management Review. In the piece, the authors offer case studies of Unocal, Nike, and Novartis. Spar and LaMure were struck by "how smart NGOs can be in their own strategic thinking, and how... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
and improved services in the same area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new model in mind: slums as... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
to Angella about CAP, the challenges a modern nonprofit faces, and how a new breed of donors has shifted the sector. CAP'S CHARGE "We bring the experience of HBS alumni to nonprofits that may not otherwise be able to access those types of resources. The number one... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
multiple proven approaches—through charities, social enterprises, philanthropy, and public policy, and perhaps most critically, the efforts of individuals. “I think Half the Sky and A Path Appears have both had quite an impact,” she says.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2020
- News
Decreasing the Wealth Gap
need—took a moment to share his thoughts with NPR’s Morning Edition on how the ever-increasing wealth gap could be addressed as the world’s economies grapple with the social and economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. “There’s a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
Tracy Palandjian (AB 1993, MBA 1997) is spearheading the development of social impact bonds (SIBs), a financial innovation designed to tackle some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Alongside... View Details