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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
this deeper understanding of purpose can serve as a trusted compass to help point the way through the increasingly tangled landscape of issues on which leaders are being asked to take a stand—such as social... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
Business School, researchers tackle these issues through its Gender Initiative, which "supports research, education, and knowledge dissemination to accelerate the advancement of women leaders and promote gender equity in business and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
designed to be inexpensive and widely available. Saathi, the winner of the 2014 HBS New Venture Competition in the social enterprise track, began distribution in 2016 and launched its #OneMillionPads program to donate pads to the women of... View Details
- December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Dow: Breakthroughs to World Challenges
By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Annelena Lobb
Dow had adopted the "Breakthroughs to World Challenges" (BWC) program as part of its ten-year 2015 Sustainability Goals. BWC was an internal award recognizing products that effectively addressed one of five world challenges: energy and climate change, sustainable water... View Details
Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, and Annelena Lobb. "Dow: Breakthroughs to World Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 715-403, December 2014. (Revised October 2017.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
special interests, particularly as they corrode the tax code? Unless both sides of the equation, revenue and expense, are questioned on the issue of fairness, I’m digging my tax heels in. Brian Mullen (MBA 1980) Lawrence, NY Investors... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
public policy, and then came to HBS to broaden his understanding of the private sector and how it can collaborate with government and nonprofits to achieve social improvements. Jefferson has distinguished himself at both KSG and HBS as an... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Education in Chile: A Venue for Individual, Business and Community Involvement
Describes the alliance between a private businessman in Chile and a municipality to manage the local public education system. Describes the institution of a performance-based culture, including the use of management tools to align visions and incentives among key... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; Chile
Barrett, Diana, Rafael Aguila, Mladen Koljatic, Monica Silva, and Alexandra de Royere. "Education in Chile: A Venue for Individual, Business and Community Involvement." Harvard Business School Case 303-078, November 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- 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
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
access capital. “We wrote this case because it not only tells a particular story of two student leaders effecting change,” says Bussgang, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and managing partner at the VC firm, Flybridge. “But it also speaks to larger systemic View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
business leaders to respond to the demands of woke capitalism. Chugh is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches courses on leadership, management, and negotiations; her new book is A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with... View Details
- Winter 2022
- Article
Courageous Leadership: Paul Polman’s Insights for the Next Generation of Business Managers
By: John Pontillo, Celia Bravard and Andrew J. Hoffman
In 2021, John Pontillo, Celia Bravard, and Andrew Hoffman conducted a series of interviews with Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever. They discussed how business managers and leaders can build a new model of capitalism that serves the needs of society. Here’s what they... View Details
Pontillo, John, Celia Bravard, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Courageous Leadership: Paul Polman’s Insights for the Next Generation of Business Managers." Management and Business Review (Winter 2022): 11–20.
- 1989
- Chapter
Permanent Homelessness in America?
By: Brian Hall and Richard B. Freeman
Hall, Brian, and Richard B. Freeman. "Permanent Homelessness in America?" In Labor Markets in Action: Essays in Empirical Economics, edited by R. B. Freeman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
- 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
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
Eligibility Social Enterprise Track The Social Enterprise Track is open to students in good standing who are enrolled in a full-time graduate degree program at Harvard University. Each team must meet both of... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
Howard Stevenson Faculty
HBS Professor, Emeritus Howard Stevenson (MBA 1965, DBA 1969) talks about his involvement in helping solve complex social problems in health, the environment, and the news media. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
management tools for the city. He stayed on as an advisor to Menino, rebuilding the city’s 24-hour hotline and exploring how mobile apps could be utilized to make reporting issues more convenient for residents. In 2010, Osgood and Nigel... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 2011
- Chapter
Between Global and Local: The Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France
Keywords: Social Issues; Knowledge Management; Information Management; Rights; United States; France
Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Between Global and Local: The Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France." In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer: A History of Market Research, Consumer Movements, and the Political Public Sphere, edited by Kerstin Bruckweh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett