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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
enterprise as a “soulless” corporation. For example, United States Steel , a corporate history written by Cotter in cooperation with Gary and U.S. Steel, leveraged text and photographs illustrating the process of steel production to... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
less worthy a profession. Marketing in the United States benefited mightily from the endorsement of management guru Peter Drucker, who famously stated: "Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and... View Details
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Public Education Leadership Project
namesake, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is a joint initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Business School (HBS), and the HBS Social Enterprise... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
Kolev, “Boomerang CEOs: What Happens When the CEO Comes Back?,” MIT Sloan Management Review, September 17, 2020, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 19-27, also available at through the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
what we have learned so far about the potential and limits of microfinance and how insights from research and practice can help inform the industry's current products, policies and future developments. Initiatives & Projects The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship... View Details
- June 2006 (Revised January 2007)
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Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Herman B. Leonard and Melissa Tritter
Dana Hall is a private all-girls school in New England facing a crisis in its mission. As social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Financing and Loans; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Education Industry; England
McFarlan, F. Warren, Herman B. Leonard, and Melissa Tritter. "Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-090, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
Franklin Qian and Florian Zimmermann A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country’s productivity and its GDP.... View Details
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Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
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Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia Cuellar
After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining growth, defending industry, leadership, preserving... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Microfinance; Initial Public Offering; Non-Governmental Organizations; Competition; Value Creation; Banking Industry; Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia Cuellar. "Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO." Harvard Business School Case 308-094, February 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
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and interviews with senior leaders are available here . NOVEMBER 2023 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE Social Enterprise: Upswell Forum This November, the View Details
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
virtual-reality future yet to materialize as hoped by its biggest proponents. Chief among its backers: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who two years ago went so far as to change his social media company’s name to Meta and vowed to spend... View Details
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Goldsmith Fellowship - MBA
nonprofit sector to pursue an MBA at HBS. Mr. Menschel, a former director of the Foundation and Limited Partner, Goldman Sachs, was an early supporter of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and served on... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Projects The Business & Environment Initiative and the Social Enterprise Initiative deepen business leaders’ understanding of today’s environmental challenges and assist them in developing effective... View Details
Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.
As Dean, building on... View Details
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Middle East & North Africa - Global
Creating Emerging Markets project provides a unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East over recent decades. At its core are over 180 interviews by Harvard faculty with high impact leaders in business... View Details
- August 2020
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This Old House of Worship: St. Anthony Shrine (A)
By: Ryan Raffaelli
This multimedia case asks students to consider how leaders of non-profit organizations manage difficult financial, operational, and cultural turnarounds. Since its founding in 1947, St. Anthony Shrine had been a central partner in serving the Downtown Boston community.... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Change Management; Turnarounds; Non-profit Management; Leadership; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Religion; Mission and Purpose; Transformation; Organizational Culture; United States
Raffaelli, Ryan. "This Old House of Worship: St. Anthony Shrine (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 421-701, August 2020.
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General Management - Faculty & Research
Management Unit is concerned with the leadership and management of the enterprise as a whole. This concern encompasses: the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders;... View Details
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes - MBA
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- September 2007 (Revised February 2008)
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Partners in Health: The PACT Project
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Josh Friedman
Partners in Health is a Boston-based, not-for-profit that provides health care to people in some of the poorest regions of the world, including Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda, and Peru. In 1998, PIH established a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Service Delivery; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Josh Friedman. "Partners in Health: The PACT Project." Harvard Business School Case 608-065, September 2007. (Revised February 2008.)