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  • April 2011 (Revised March 2021)
  • Case

BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)

By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress. View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Political Risk; Microfinance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Government and Politics; Investment; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia
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  • March 2018
  • Case

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (A): The Promise and Perils of Social Movements in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent,... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Engagement; Stakeholder Engagement; Grassroots Movement; Organization Change And Adaptation; Quality; Health Care; Health Care Industry; Career Path; Leading Change; Management; Innovation and Management; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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  • April 2011 (Revised March 2013)
  • Supplement

BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)

By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Microfinance; Investment; Government and Politics; Crisis Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia
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  • March 2018
  • Supplement

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (C): Raising Quality in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Using digital and social media tools and lessons learned from prior change campaigns as a middle manager in a large biotech company, Sandra Brown continued in a new role in the quality division, engaging staff in a quality movement at the company. She had found a new... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Grassroots Movement; Managing Change; Career Path; Stakeholder Engagement; Engagement; Health Care Industry; Quality; Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Social Media; Health Industry
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  • June 2018
  • Teaching Note

Sandra Brown Goes Digital

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This Teaching Note presents strategies for teaching the Sandra Brown case series, which follows Brown's... View Details
Keywords: Change Leadership; Change Management; Digital; Engagement; Stakeholder Engagement; Grassroots Movement; Health Care Industry; Career Path; Innovation; Leading Change; Management; Innovation and Management; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality
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  • 20 Nov 2018
  • News

Retraining road-trip: New skills for older workers

  • 2012
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education—'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus
Shelly London and Ethics Education — 'Strengthening Our Moral Compass' 2009 AL Fellow
Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Skills; Ethics Education; Initiatives; Morality; Moral Compass; Prima Facie; Grassroots Movement; Ethical Reasoning; Decision-making; Social Media; Media Relations; Family Dinner Project; Public Conversations Project; Laura Chasin; Computer Games; Video Games; Quandary; Organizational Structure; Infrastructure; Ethics; Education; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Making; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Education Industry; Service Industry; North and Central America
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  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

Here are a few ways MBAs can support the movement for Black lives: Donate to and fundraise for racial justice nonprofits. Support local Black-led organizing groups and/or invest in national organizations like View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

State of the Unions

down from 17.7 million in 1983—there has been a surge in pro-labor activity among low-wage workers as of late. Damon Silvers (MBA 1995, JD 1996), policy director for the AFL-CIO, says he’s heartened by these grassroots organizing efforts.... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; McDonald's; Walmart
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Forecasting ’15

Food Lab “The cronut is not the last of its type. We’ll continue to see a lot of excitement and hype around crazy food things, usually something that is fat-on-fat-on-sugar-on-more-fat. But in 2015 we’ll also see more of the grassroots... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named

founder of Friendfactor (www.friendfactor.org), an enterprise that aims to mobilize a national grassroots movement to accelerate the achievement of full legal equality for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and... View Details
Keywords: Awards; disability; gay rights; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

Course MaterialsBANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A) Shawn Cole and Baily Blair KempnerHarvard Business School Case 211-092 This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2018
  • News

Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

create job creators instead of job seekers through an entrepreneurship training program at the grassroots level? In a serendipitous twist, that same year, as part of an HBS alumni outreach program, Bhargava had volunteered to provide... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-082 Sandra Brown Goes Digital (A): The Promise and Perils of Social Movements in a Healthcare Company As a middle manager at a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

important if the no-action side wins. Grassroots support for actions that benefit cities and regions will help creative local leaders move forward even when national or state policies are unfavorable. 2. Quality and safety is crucial for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

A More Perfect Union

Entrepreneurs supports the growing number of leaders who are helping expand civic and grassroots engagement, providing resources and connecting leaders in pursuit of these goals. Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002), president and cofounder Issue One is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

effectiveness,” he said. Ayinde Castro (MBA 2026)Ayinde previously worked at LinkedIn as a product manager and co-founded Elevate Social, a culture-driving community movement that promotes creativity, collaboration, and empowerment... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

the art world with affordable pieces of art," says Endine, the former founding CEO of Sweetriot. Art Rioting allows visitors to support artists by purchasing artwork to be used as digital backgrounds. "I love building sweet movements to... View Details