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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A champion for First Nations
Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) was trained to be a public servant from childhood. Having grown up in a family of Native American Cree chiefs, Favel has spent a lifetime shoring up employment opportunities for his people. As chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan, he is... View Details
- November 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
BRAC in 2020
By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In 2020, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, BRAC, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has some big problems to tackle. Its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, has left behind a challenge: take the 1981-founded organization from Bangladesh to every... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Health; Social Issues; Poverty; Programs; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Education Industry; Health Industry; Bangladesh; South Asia
Khanna, Tarun, and Shreya Ramachandran. "BRAC in 2020." Harvard Business School Case 721-416, November 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 17 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
The recent collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh was a red alert for every company that has embraced the "virtual organization" model and the outsourcing that goes with it. The lure of the model is obvious. Virtual corporations... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
In a hugely ambitious project, the Unique Identification Authority of India has been charged with implementing a nationwide program to register and assign a one-of-a-kind ID number to every Indian resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020 and to meet an interim goal of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Spring 2014
- Article
The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity
By: Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino and Anat Keinan
Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan. "The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity." MIT Sloan Management Review 55, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 10–11.
- 2012
- Chapter
Using Decision Errors to Help People Help Themselves
By: George Loewenstein, Leslie John and Kevin G. Volpp
Loewenstein, George, Leslie John, and Kevin G. Volpp. "Using Decision Errors to Help People Help Themselves." Chap. 21 in The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, edited by Eldar Shafir, 361–379. Princeton University Press, 2012.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality
By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
Recent influential work finds large increases in inequality in the U.S. based on measures of wealth concentration that notably exclude the value of social insurance programs. This paper shows that top wealth shares have not changed much over the last three decades when... View Details
Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. "Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
- July 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Nestlé, Shared Value and KitKat Diplomacy
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Sabine Pitteloud
The case revolves around the decision on March 23, 2022 by Mark Schneider, the chief executive of Swiss-based Nestlé, to withdraw the emblematic Kit Kat chocolate bar from sales in Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine in the previous month, although not its... View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Globalized Economies and Regions; Ethics; War; Social Issues
Jones, Geoffrey G., and Sabine Pitteloud. "Nestlé, Shared Value and KitKat Diplomacy." Harvard Business School Case 323-018, July 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
that Dean Nohria has committed $25 million over the next 10 years to the plan—and that the School will seek additional support from donors to sustain the plan over time. “To be true to our mission,” said Dean Nohria, “we must enlist the full spectrum of human talent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
out into the world. An investment in their leadership potential, and in their potential to make a difference, has far-reaching impact—on the students and on society more broadly. “Fellowships enable the diversity of perspectives that is... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 2021
- Case
Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
In 2018, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted 9-0 for a tax that would require companies whose annual revenue surpassed $20 million to pay the city $275 per employee per year. The tax money would then be used to combat homelessness in Seattle. In response,... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; City; Welfare; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice." William Davidson Institute Case 3-330-494, 2021.
- April 2019
- Case
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)
By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
- Web
Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
from an agrarian society to an industrial power. Managers, who now numbered in the millions, got their training either on the job, or in technically oriented, for-profit business schools. The new discipline of management, however, was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so largely entered was laughed down and disappeared, and View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Apr 2019
- News
Community Celebrates Dedication of Schwartz Common and Pavilion
of daily activity on campus, reflecting Schwartz’s vision for creating an artistic presence at HBS that would spur debates that transcended the classroom experience. Inspired by the growing collection, a small group of MBA students founded the HBS Art Appreciation... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- News
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992)
she says. She recently extended that annual support by including HBS in her will. “My bequest allows me to make a larger gift in the future than what I can give on an annual basis now,” says Battit. She is proud to be a member of the John C. Whitehead View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Wolfgang Klietmann, MD (OPM 12, 1987), president of the association, lauded Wyss for his “service to humanity and society in health care, research, education, and preservation of the environment, and as patron of the arts.” (In 2008, Wyss... View Details
- February 2023
- Article
Homophily and Acrophily as Drivers of Political Segregation
By: Amit Goldenberg, Joseph M. Abruzzo, Zi Huang, Jonas Schone, David Bailey, Robb Willer, Eran Halperin and James J. Gross
Political segregation is an important social problem, increasing polarization and impeding effective governance. Previous work has viewed the central driver of segregation to be political homophily, the tendency to associate with others who have similar views. Here we... View Details
Keywords: Political Affiliation; Extremism; Values and Beliefs; Identity; Groups and Teams; Emotions; Civil Society or Community
Goldenberg, Amit, Joseph M. Abruzzo, Zi Huang, Jonas Schone, David Bailey, Robb Willer, Eran Halperin, and James J. Gross. "Homophily and Acrophily as Drivers of Political Segregation." Nature Human Behaviour 7, no. 2 (February 2023): 219–230.
- Web
RISE Fellowship | MBA
work Community engagement as demonstrated by: Service to others Advocacy Action Impact An interest in sharing their experience and impact with the broader HBS community, future workplaces, and society through business and advocacy View Details