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01 Dec 2008
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Wooing Customers With Social-Good Efforts

January 2017 (Revised March 2018)
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United Housing—Otis Gates

By: Steven Rogers and Mercer Cook

Otis Gates, the only African-American in his HBS graduating class, is an entrepreneur from greater Boston area and has built a successful affordable housing firm. Along the way, he and his partners have contributed countless hours of community service to the... View Details

Keywords: Affordable Housing; Real Estate; Community Engagement; Social-good; Request For Proposal; Diversity; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Moral Sensibility; Fairness; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Housing; Business and Community Relations; Real Estate Industry

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24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

they feel a lack of “agency,” a sense that only the highest rank of management can effect positive social change from within a business. Ironically, an increasing number of C-suite executives, including former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, are leaving their companies... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the... View Details

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

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

decide whether their social-good mission is helping or harming their bottom line. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-032 U.S. Digital Service Mikey Dickerson and... View Details

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