Nonprofit - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

world needs principled leaders. Business has become one of the most dynamic forces in our society. If you look at what our graduates are asked to do, you will find them holding influential positions on the boards of major nonprofit and... View Details

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Srinivasan, who also cites the important role of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a nonprofit private corporation created by SOX that oversees auditors of SEC-registered companies. Markets Have Benefitted Despite... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Discovering Working Options; The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit; Transitions and Transformations; and Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Member. The Breakthrough Insights program was an experiment that proved to be an unbridled... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

Teaching Commission, a nonprofit organization that seeks to change how public school teachers are trained and compensated. A longtime activist for education reform, Gerstner is passionate when discussing this issue. "The leaders in our... View Details

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

that it will require Government subsidy while providing price leadership under a nonprofit cover, will over time drive most if not all health care to the public option (as happened with home mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac),... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

which became Abata Therapeutics. He founded the nonprofit biotechnology incubator Sling Health during his MD/PhD at Washington University in St. Louis. Steve holds a master's in drug development from the University of Cambridge, where he... View Details

19 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities

Melcolm Ruffin (MBA 2020) is among one of four HBS alumni named to this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 List. Melcolm is co-founder of the nonprofit Sports & Entertainment Equity Network (SEEN), which aims to "close the diversity, equity,... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

climate change, and entrenched inequality are not just technical. We’re in the midst of a leadership crisis because many of these problems require coordination and cooperation between the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. One of our... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

Frampton, and Minnick created the nonprofit Partnership for Responsible Growth to introduce the concept as a practical alternative to cut through the ideological divide. RELATED HARVARD LINKS Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative's 2015... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
Case

SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool

By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn

The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental concerns in business, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

nonprofit research organization that he founded in 2005. As he read the literature on inequality and spoke with numerous scholars in the field, Moss noted the diversity of situations in which the phenomenon has been studied. Income... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2011
News

At Your Service

notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Morriss, the cofounder and managing director of the Concire Leadership Institute, which advises managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, says that as... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Endeavor Entrepreneur Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the story of Jaime and Endeavor, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

nonprofit that recruits and prepares promising candidates to become school principals, NLNS helps place its trainees in urban public schools and provides them with ongoing support once they become principals. “ I've seen more and more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

students Allison Gaines, Michael Johnston, and Jon Schnur.) A national nonprofit that recruits and prepares promising candidates to become school principals, NLNS helps place its trainees in urban public schools and provides them with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Students take part in "living cases," where they work with an active social entrepreneur. The course concludes with an exploration of the role of business leaders on nonprofit boards. Offered three times since the spring 1995 semester,... View Details

January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
Case

Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

By: Robert G. Eccles

Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States