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- October 2010
- Article
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).
- January 2010
- Teaching Note
Transforming ASUSTeK: Breaking from the Past (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [610041]. View Details
- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Incentives, Harvard Professors Kathleen L. McGinn and Iris Bohnet, along with HBS doctoral student Pinar Fletcher, examine how men and women respond when they cooperate or compete in pairs on math and verbal tasks. What they unearthed in their early research is that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
opportunity not only to serve his country but also to enrich his teaching and research, which focused on the management of large engineering development and construction projects. "It was the preeminent position in the field in which I... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
"I'm a great believer in nonprofits," Herzlinger said, "but sometimes they don't achieve their mission. Nonprofit managers more than agree with me. Many grade their own performances as poor." Herzlinger... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
Continuum can be used as an instrument for managing their "Partnering Portfolios." Not only can one ascertain the current nature of the existing relationships, but also begin to strategize as to the ideal mix of relationship... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
occurred to me (at my customary snail’s pace) that IBM missed a PR bonanza by not making its marvelous machine a woman. But I digress. Watson’s performance at times was puzzling. The machine answered 34 questions, all correctly. Yet it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
the challenge of managing an organization that was larger and arguably more complex would be good for me. For example, we have a team involved in automating performance metrics, which makes reporting very... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- November 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Teaching Note
Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P. (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis, Daniel Buenza, Fabrizio Ferraro and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 411025. View Details
- 14 Dec 2022
- News
When to Give Verbal Feedback — and When to Do It in Writing
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
hedges, the breakdowns in the company's performance review and internal control processes, the intolerance of internal dissent, and the inability of Lay and Skilling to face the reality of Enron's true financial condition. But under U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
that they waited too long to develop good habits for honing their skills or for thinking deeply about what they wanted. Does any of this sound like you? Are you making the most of your capabilities? Do you feel as if you're on someone else's path? If so, is it too late... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at the dark side of goal-setting,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
budgeted 7 percent increase, reflecting a strong and ongoing commitment to cost control discipline on the part of managers across the School. The School’s bottom-line performance for fiscal 2018 reflected... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his career when... View Details
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
learn how and when to create core values and beliefs systems to prioritize the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. Tracking performance goals: You will learn how to select a small number of critical View Details