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- October 2010
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The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Allen S. Grossman
Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become much smaller presences in the U.S. industrial... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations
Kaplan, Robert S., and Allen S. Grossman. "The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 10 (October 2010).
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A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
process solutions has become clear. And it is driving new business creation, as well as traditional business adaptation, at far higher than previous rates. With the evolution of our great industrial and financial base, we may at last be... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy. Several key questions arose during the workshop: To what degree should new reporting standards be melded into the existing corporate accounting model?... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal income tax reinstituted Influence: Low 20 1920 s 19 U.S. Steel and Alcoa... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
focus is corporate governance and valuation, and he serves as course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum. He is also a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and an associate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
start (S) doing," and then asking those same people to hold you accountable for what they included on the list. More honest, no-holds-barred conversations with bosses and direct reports are also part of recovery, he adds. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity” ( Journal of Financial Economics , January 2022) with Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang. Mitchell B. Weiss : Winner of the 2022 Apgar Award for Innovation... View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
includes Business Analytics and Financial Accounting . Designed for those interested in learning business fundamentals more broadly, CORe program participants progress through the three courses in tandem,... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS
I was way off about timing. HBS paid off before I left campus. Let me share three reasons: First, I learned to ask what else? That question has helped me create richer solutions. I remember leaning forward in my seat during a class discussion in my second-year View Details
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Rclone - Research Computing Services
Software Tools Rclone 4ms About rclone Many people use a web browser to transfer files between local and cloud storage. In comparison, Rclone is a robust command-line utility for synchronizing and transferring files to and from cloud storage. The command-line... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
Others identified factors accounting for too much focus. Yadeed Lobo said: "I think focus in organizations might have its roots in competitive strategy, intense focus on differentiation or cost consciousness." Edward Hare put it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
inflation-indexed bond markets in the U.S. and the U.K. It documents a massive decline in long-term real interest rates from the 1990s until 2008, followed by a sudden spike in these rates during the financial crisis of 2008. Breakeven... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
American corporations have never been more partisan—starting at the top with executives who often bring on like-minded managers belonging to the same political party. Now, new research shows that when boardrooms are dominated by one party, the companies’ View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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What is an HBS Section? - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
by standard economic models, this paper shows that an additional mechanism is relevant: the use of risk as an excuse not to give. In a laboratory study, participants evaluate risky payoffs for themselves and risky payoffs for a charity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
for an enterprise dedicated to the intersection of science and art. Public and professional recognition propelled the work of Land-Wheelwright Laboratories to the attention of Wall Street. In 1937, with major investments from James P. Warburg, a banker and View Details
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Mireya Iglesias Ayala
self-discovery. What is your most memorable classroom moment? One of my favorite cases last semester in Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) was “OXXO's Turf War Against Extra,” which is the largest convenience store chain in Mexico.... View Details