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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
teams and services that all manage aspects of breast cancer over the full cycle of care. This would be surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, reconstructive surgeons, pathologists, and radiologists. Specialized nurses, pharmacists, View Details
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My research is at the intersection of organizational strategy, global sustainability governance, and social change. It explores the diffusion of sustainability standards to non-traditional sectors (e.g. jewelry, cannabis, plastics, pets) and the relationship between...
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Keywords:
Sustainability Standards;
Extractive Industries;
Luxury;
Gold;
Institutional Change;
Institutional Entrepreneurship;
Hybrid Organizations;
Governance;
Policy;
Consumer Behavior;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Pollution and Pollutants;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Enterprise;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Poverty;
Diversification;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Africa;
Latin America;
Europe
- March 2001 (Revised April 2001)
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Sustainable Development & Socially Responsible Investing: ABB in 2000
Several investment firms and mutual funds position themselves as providers or facilitators of opportunities for socially responsible investment. This case addresses the impact of these firms on publicly traded companies. Focuses on managers at ABB, a large...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Enterprise;
Corporate Governance;
Business Strategy;
Capital Markets;
Management Teams;
Business and Community Relations;
Trade;
Electronics Industry;
Switzerland
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Sustainable Development & Socially Responsible Investing: ABB in 2000." Harvard Business School Case 701-082, March 2001. (Revised April 2001.)
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Sir Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) is a social entrepreneur and British educator who served 10 successive secretaries of state for education. “I love my work helping young people get a good education,” he says. Taylor had a successful career at...
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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
rigorously track the interdependency between social and business results, they miss important opportunities for innovation, growth, and sustainable social impact at scale. An approach to shared value...
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Las Microfinanzas: Creación simultánea de impacto social y valor comercial
By: Michael Chu
Microfinance is the best known and most successful expression of inclusive business. When the disbursement of financial services in small sizes to enterprising people in the informal sectors of the economy is capable of yielding superior commercial returns, it enables...
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Keywords:
Microfinance;
Economy;
Investment Return;
Service Operations;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Poverty
Chu, Michael. "Las Microfinanzas: Creación simultánea de impacto social y valor comercial." Debates IESA 15, no. 3 (July–September 2010): 26–30.
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either the community or...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2001
- Book
From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
This is a pathbreaking account of how the environmental movement has led to profound changes in the perceptions and practices of large-scale corporations, as shown here in the chemical and petroleum industries. The book traces how market, social, and political...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism. Stanford University Press, 2001. (Winner of the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).)
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
back to the forefront again. I think they are saying no, that’s not what leadership is about, and that’s not what I want to be. Spence: There are many examples of student efforts to promote social action and ethical behavior. The...
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- August 1986 (Revised February 1991)
- Supplement
Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh, Video
Population Services International, a not-for-profit agency founded to promote family planning information and to market birth control products, had an agreement with the government of Bangladesh to conduct a social marketing program using modern marketing techniques to...
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Keywords:
Social Marketing;
Health;
Advertising;
Marketing;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Government and Politics;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Health Industry;
Bangladesh
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-506, August 1986. (Revised February 1991.)
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Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The...
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- Other Unpublished Work
Medium and Message: The Role of the Media in Establishing Institutional Logics
By: Mukti Khaire and Erika Richardson
Research on industry institutional logics has provided insights into the factors that influence organizational behavior and actions. However, we still lack a detailed understanding of how industry logics emerge from societal-level values, get disseminated, and become...
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- September 2016
- Case
Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic resources like heating assistance, job training, and childcare...
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Keywords:
Scaling Social Enterprise;
Scaling Social Impact;
Health Care Delivery;
Health Care Outcomes;
Health Care Reform;
Nonprofit;
Nonprofit Scaling;
Social Enterprise;
Health Care and Treatment;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Sarah Appleby. "Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 517-024, September 2016.
- 23 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
- 2002
- Report
Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise
By: Lynn S. Paine and other contributors
Paine, Lynn S., and other contributors. "Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise." Report, Conference Board, November 2002.
- March 2001 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Ginzel et al v. Kolcraft Enterprises et al (A)
Examines the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of an infant who died after a portable crib collapsed. The manufacturer, Kolcraft, licensed the Playskool brand name from the co-defendant, Hasbro Industries. Raises difficult questions about what the two...
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Keywords:
Safety;
Product;
Negotiation;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Wheeler, Michael A. "Ginzel et al v. Kolcraft Enterprises et al (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-059, March 2001. (Revised April 2002.)
- 1990
- Chapter
Institutional Incentives for Protection: The American Use of Voluntary Export Restraints
By: J. J. Coleman and D. B. Yoffie