NGO - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2017
News

Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

in Paris arranged Trumbull’s interviews with government officials and NGO leaders across the continent. “They were all exhausted,” Trumbull recalls of his interview subjects. “The human weight of the situation was taking a toll on them.”... View Details

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

in working with government and NGO players to get his hybrid solar network up and running. “To have large scale and sustainable impact in helping the poor, it is essential to enlist the power of business and the markets in a way that... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

04 Nov 2014
News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Fundación, which is rated number one among all Mexican NGOs for efficiency by philanthropic watchdog Filantrofilia, has distributed $11.7 million in grants and loans. The selection criteria are simple: Mexican students accepted to a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

June, HBS hosted over sixty representatives from business, government, and NGOs in September. A final workshop was held in Beijing in November. Barrett cochaired the series with John Ruggie, director of the KSG’s Center for Business and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

Profile

Alice Yang

Turkey and Ethiopia on its own initiative this year. In Ethiopia, Alice and her classmates worked with local NGOs and university students to conduct interviews with impoverished villagers, collecting data that will serve as a baseline for... View Details

27 Apr 2017
News

Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

off. It was incredible,” he says. The experience prompted Schmidt to leave his home near Nuremberg after high school for a one-year stint at an NGO in Indonesia, and eventually to earn his aerospace engineering degree in 2014 at Imperial... View Details

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

nonprofits, cultural institutions, and like-minded corporations. My clients included cause-related NGOs like Freedom to Marry and Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, the American Museum of Natural History, Ford Motor Company, and MIT. The... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and government agencies have been variously described in the nonprofit literature as cooperative, complementary, adversarial, confrontational, or even co-optive. But how do NGO-government relationships emerge in practice,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2018
News

Pitching In for Female Leaders

recently, I took over as chair of Women in Football, which is the leading NGO for empowering women, celebrating their success, but also maintaining a collaborative dialogue with the governing bodies in the UK and in Europe about the... View Details

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707040 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition Harvard Business School Case 907-409 Deals with approaches to alleviating poverty and how firms, governments, and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Ari Medoff

the joint degree students' commitment was demonstrated last January when nine joint degrees students self-organized a trip to Ethiopia, where they met with business and NGO leaders, and helped A Glimmer of Help conduct interviews to build... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Finding a Balance

Deshpandé, who is now writing a “B” appendix to the case that examines Cipla’s current collaboration with the Clinton Foundation, an NGO that has brokered a low price for antiretrovirals in order to make them available in the Caribbean... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

that cleans up to 80 may benefit by preventing criticism from environmental NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and by hedging against a toughening of regulation in the near future. However, a firm that spent $50 million more to get to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and management consulting firms. We interviewed leaders from NGOs like World Wildlife Fund, Environmental Defense Fund, and CDP about how they work with companies on their climate initiatives and... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

Ebrahim is delineating a framework that takes into account the inherent uncertainty and complexity of measuring results in the social sector. EBRAHIM: The hard work of measuring impact becomes easier "Performance measurement in nonprofits and in View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

environmental value simultaneously through its activities," Keshavjee explains. "It is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling up its activities." HCA, in partnership with a number of local NGOs and... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

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Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

a place like Endeavor, an NGO that works with highly-scalable commercial enterprises, we're blending traditional models of philanthropy with business. As for the team, most are young and dynamic and come from the private sector. They feel... View Details

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

“Corruption is a great untapped market,” Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) says with a laugh. “Not many competitors and customer interest is quite high.” It’s a market he’s helping to disrupt using Bantay, an NGO he cofounded while at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

worldwide. The organization is at a crossroads as it attempts to reach the ambitious goal of serving 10% of the 20 million Egyptians living in poverty by 2023, while at the same time developing the local NGO capacity to serve the... View Details