Spring Break
For the whole of this week, March 26 to March 30, HBS will host its third annual Green Week, a series of activities aimed at raising environmental awareness throughout the HBS community. Sponsored by the Student Association, the event is jointly organized by the Business and Environment Club (BEC), Restaurant Associates and HBS Operations. (0) comments
If you had 30-seconds to make your "elevator pitch," could you sell someone on your business? How about if you had a little bit longer-2 minutes and 2 slides? That's what this year's contestants were up against in the Pitch for Change competition. (0) comments
At the Social Enterprise Conference on March 4th, Peter Kinder, President of KLD Research & Analytics and Cheryl Smith, Executive Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager at Trillium Asset Management shared their insights on Socially Responsible Investing (SRI). (0) comments
The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter Benefit Concert is not just about great music, but also about reaching out to our community. What do you get when you combine incredible talent, initiative and the urge to contribute to the larger community in every way possible? A benefit concert organized by enterprising HBS students who will be performing at the HBS Chapel on April 12, 2007! This concert-organized by Linda Boudiab (OJ), offers an eclectic mix of music performed by HBS students. (0) comments
Thirty-three percent of all homeless males in America are military veterans. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that more than 275,000 veterans are homeless on any given night and that more than 500,000 experience homelessness over the course of a year. (0) comments
Evan Hochberg, National Director of Community Involvement, Deloitte Services, speaks on making CSR really matter Heightened interest of the role of businesses in society has created a strong place for Corporate Social Responsibility in many corporations. Companies have allocated huge budgets towards social impact initiatives, encouraged employees to volunteer towards charitable causes and even established foundations to make a positive impact on communities. (0) comments
1. What is the Green Living Program and why was it created? Campus sustainability has been a growing movement both nationally and internationally throughout the past decade. HBS and Harvard Real Estate Services, in collaboration with the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, set up the first-ever Graduate Green Living Program. (2) comments
Gordon Gecko is the world's most famous LBO investor and star of the movie Wall Street. Green-for lack of a better word-is good. Green is right. Green works. Green clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Green, in all of its forms, has marked the upward surge of mankind. (0) comments
