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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

downsizing philosophy. The company, Sucher says, offers five different options to help employees get a fresh start, including grants to help downsized employees start new businesses or pursue non-profit work. In the end, Sucher says,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
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Case Development - Faculty & Research

academics across the world. The School is continually expanding and refreshing course content as HBS faculty write new cases that span the globe, industries, disciplines, and organizational forms in the public, private for profit, and View Details
  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

flags a couple important considerations for executives looking to model KKR’s success, which the private-equity firm is now using broadly. In addition, a non-profit Stavros founded called Ownership Works is developing the tools to help... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Research Areas - Doctoral

change; business models that address poverty; management of high-performing K-12 public school districts; and financing models for the non-profit sector 12. Technology and Innovation research focuses on value creation of platforms and... View Details
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The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

RoGME is about one question: What is the proper role of government in market economies? We study the role of government as it plays out in the real world, using case studies to examine policies of current interest and importance.... View Details

  • 03 Apr 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

  • October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
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Podcast - Business & Environment

MethaneSAT: The EDF Satellite Tracking Methane Emissions from Oil & Gas Operations 31 JUL 2024 | Climate Rising Fred Krupp, president of the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), describes EDF’s work to address climate change... View Details
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The Information Age has introduced well-received opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands allow individuals to track their own performance; companies like Uber and leading hospitals help you choose a driver or a doctor based on how others rated... View Details

Keywords: Management Accounting; Disclosure; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India
  • November 2013
  • Case

Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope
After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was... View Details
Keywords: Charter Schools; Real Estate; Fund Raising; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States
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Latin America - Global

University of Bath. Fernanda has been very active in non-profit activities, including fund rising at the Fundación Acción Hemato-oncologica – Argentine National Academy of Medicine, and acting as advisor to the Board of Directors of the... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2018
  • Video

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  • October 2019
  • Case

Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
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  • 15 Apr 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School

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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

strategic priorities, including applied research, new executive course development, and key convenings with stakeholders in the leadership development space. Her insights from the LI inform her service on non-profit boards, allowing her... View Details
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

co-founded four non-profit organizations growing out of his scholarly work: The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, which addresses economic development in distressed urban communities; the Center for Effective Philanthropy, which... View Details
  • August 2021
  • Case

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 14 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

second-grade tutor and board member for a non-profit organization focused on the Chicago Public Schools system. My professional and community positions convinced me that the intersectionality of business and government created an... View Details