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  • November 2014
  • Case

BRAC in 2014

By: Tarun Khanna, Rachna Tahilyani, Reeti Roy and Aldo Sesia
In the early 1970s BRAC was a startup nongovernmental organization (NGO) working in Bangladesh. By 2014, it was the world's largest NGO. It had a strong presence in Bangladesh and had begun to deliver social development programs in nine other countries. Its founder and... View Details
Keywords: BRAC; Bangladesh; NGO; Strategy; Business Model; Business Organization; Social Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Bangladesh
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  • August 2003
  • Case

BRAC

By: John A. Quelch
BRAC is the world's largest NGO and has over the past 20 years experienced tremendous rates of growth. The case looks at diversity within the organization and the aspects of management that have made the organization so successful. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations
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  • November 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

BRAC in 2020

By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In 2020, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, BRAC, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has some big problems to tackle. Its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, has left behind a challenge: take the 1981-founded organization from Bangladesh to every... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Health; Social Issues; Poverty; Programs; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Education Industry; Health Industry; Bangladesh; South Asia
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  • October 2021
  • Teaching Note

BRAC in 2020

By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-416. View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Health; Social Issues; Poverty; Programs; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Education Industry; Health Industry; Bangladesh; South Asia
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  • February 2019
  • Teaching Note

BRAC in 2014

By: Tarun Khanna
Teaching Note for HBS No. 715-414. View Details
Keywords: Bangladesh
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  • August 2003
  • Case

BRAC and Aarong Commercial Brands, The

By: John A. Quelch
BRAC is the world's largest NGO and has recently initiated a number of successful profit-making commercial enterprises, ranging from dairy processing to vegetable exports, as well as a university. Explores the tensions and benefits of a major nonprofit entering the... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Commercialization; For-Profit Firms; Non-Governmental Organizations
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Living the HBS Mission with BRAC | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

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SEI25 Series: Donella Rapier (MBA 1992), President and CEO, BRAC USA | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

  • 09 Nov 2020
  • Video

Muhammad Musa

Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains how BRAC functions as a learning organization. He provides an example from west Africa, where the NGO discovered that the children attending the clubs it had established suffered far... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2020
  • Video

Muhammad Musa

Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains that the NGO does not make all its operations in one country financially self-sustaining as it considers outside funding can be a source of new knowledge. For the same reason BRAC... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2020
  • Video

Muhammad Musa

Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains the NGO’s operating model which includes establishing for-profit and social enterprise businesses and the provision of micro-finance. View Details
  • 09 Nov 2020
  • Video

Muhammad Musa

Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of BRAC International since 2015, recalls how the founder Sir Abed Hazan Fazle led the NGO’s first international foray in Afghanistan in 2002, negotiating with conflicting parties to establish schools for girls. View Details

    Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

    Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented, or country - or market-specific, or descriptive. No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical framework and assessment tools for analyzing emerging markets,... View Details

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    Hiring Organizations

    Origin Blue Sage Capital Blue Wolf Capital Partners Blumberg Capital Blumhouse Book of the Month Boston Consulting Group - BCG Boston Consulting Group - BCG X Boston Public Schools Boston Scientific BRAC International BrainSpec Brandes... View Details
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    Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

    CEO, Africa Investconsult Ltd. (Financial Services) “You have to negotiate. And you have to go with a team that knows how to negotiate. Otherwise you’ll get a deal that looks good. Later on you find out it’s no good.” Download Transcript Bangladesh Sir Fazle Hasan Abed... View Details
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    Leadership Fellows

    recruiting partners and past Fellows or view this past year's press release . ACLU City of Cambridge Sesame Workshop Boston Ballet Harlem Children’s Zone Boston Children’s Hospital The Juilliard School Teach For America BRAC USA Kresge... View Details
    • 06 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

    into a giant field experiment against their will. "It doesn’t mean you have to be in the office every week. The guiding principle is that the team decides what the co-location schedule will be." The results of the BRAC experiment follow... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
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    Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Center Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston Symphony Orchestra BRAC USA Bridges Outcomes Partnerships Calvert Foundation The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Citizen Schools City of... View Details
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    Donella Rapier Archives | Social Enterprise

    Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results SEI25 Series: Donella Rapier (MBA 1992), President and CEO, BRAC USA Donella Rapier 28... View Details
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    Hrithik Bansal Archives | Social Enterprise

    Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Living the HBS Mission with BRAC Donella Rapier Hrithik Bansal 26 Oct 2017 During the... View Details