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  • February 2021
  • Case

Measuring Impact at JUST Capital

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Ethan Rouen
JUST Capital is a nonprofit organization that seeks to make public companies more "just" by measuring and ranking their overall impact on society, based on the priorities most important to the average American. This case examines JUST's strategy for influencing... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Ethics; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • Web

Student Association | MBA

social events, and, offering products and services to students (e.g., yearbook and the HBS Survival Guide). All members of the MBA student body are members of the SA. HBS is about the people — the relationships, peer learning, memorable... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think about how they and others can advance and grow. Optimists also... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2022
  • News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big View Details
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

The more fundamental question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software?—Siobhán O'Mahony Similar issues surface in the biotechnology world, where university and market conceptions of the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 14 Feb 2018
  • News

A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace

economists, organizational scientists, and demographers show that socially diverse groups––those with a diversity of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation––are more innovative than homogeneous groups,” Coleman says. “By... View Details
  • January 2022
  • Background Note

Native American Incarceration

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Jordan Naylor
In the early twenty-first century the Native American populations of the United States continued to live with the legacy of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural destruction. Although other minority groups had increasingly been able to make their voices heard,... View Details
Keywords: Colonialism; Incarceration; Social Issues; Race; Equality and Inequality; History
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  • February 1998 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Burma Pipeline, The

By: Debora L. Spar and Lane LaMure
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely... View Details
Keywords: Political Risk; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Foreign Direct Investment; Energy Industry; Asia
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Laura Sophie Wegner | MBA

solve social issues with technological solutions will make many of us cohort members life-long friends, and potentially even co-founders, who support each other beyond the fellowship. Tech areas of interest:... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2023
  • News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

(BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

HBS Press Books in Brief

Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide reveals the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. Written by Ming-Jer Chen, an expert on business strategy... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

honesty and sincere devotion. He’s not inclined to—or even capable of—sugarcoating the truth. At the same time, everyone close to him completely relies on his unwavering support. It is no surprise that this combination of traits has enabled him to become one of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this CEO and crusader for View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 2013
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
n 2011, Junko Yoda with Pam McCambridge launched CLinked, a venture aimed to reduce human trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. Since incorporation, they launched several different pilot programs in partnership with local non-governmental... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Crime and Corruption; Gender; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Leadership; Change Management; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia; Asia
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  • 28 May 2019
  • News

@Soldiers Field

“Brave Leadership: A Conversation with Women in Business.” HIGH NOTE Also in March, New York Philharmonic President and CEO Deborah Borda and renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma discussed strategies for increasing access to classical music to enact View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

WSA Speakers Kick Off W50

feminists, Spar suggested, addressed the more obvious policy issues within the system; the remaining, largely cultural issues are much subtler, and more difficult to address. "Because young women can do... View Details
  • Article

Guanxi versus Networking: Distinctive Configurations of Affect- and Cognition-based Trust in the Networks of Chinese and American Managers

By: Roy Y.J. Chua, M.W. Morris and P. Ingram
This research investigates hypotheses about differences between Chinese and American managers in the configuration of trusting relationships within their professional networks. Consistent with hypotheses about Chinese familial collectivism, an egocentric network survey... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Trust; China; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)

what’s going on in the world through our purchasing decisions. Our research shows that two-thirds of people, across all age groups and incomes, now buy or boycott a brand based on where it stands on the political or social View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 11 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

field of neuromarketing, which uses brain-tracking tools to determine why consumers prefer some products over others. And there is neuroleadership, which applies neuroscience to management research. Looser is looking to integrate insights from View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Profile

Eryn Schultz

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I’m really experiencing the strength of the HBS network. In college, I wrote a business plan for a healthy school-lunch program and have been interested in food-access issues... View Details
Keywords: Consulting