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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on three literatures: strategic philanthropy,... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
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  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

consider specific and general strategic responses to these allegations. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207071 VMware, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 707-013 VMware, Inc., the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2005 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

ACHAP (African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships): the Merck/Gates Initiative in Botswana

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
By June 2004, ACHAP, a three-way partnership of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck, and the Botswana government, had committed nearly $60 million of the $100 million toward various AIDS education, prevention, and treatment programs. It was time to evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry
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  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

a January 2, 2004, article in the Wall Street Journal, large corporations are increasingly unwilling to pay for expensive upgrades to software programs. This indicates that software providers are overserving increasing swaths of the... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

and stockholders. However, this implication is invalid when managers can manipulate information flows that influence short-term stock price movements. Neoclassical economic theory thus fosters a corporate culture that ignores the personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as "green giants," and traces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

average firm in his state cut back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to their working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" "It was an enormous surprise, at least to us, to learn... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2024
  • Supplement

Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Emilie Billaud
The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

sector supports, develops, or acquires the most promising low-carbon energy technologies of the future. Ultimately, the companies that are willing to make investments in these technologies will become our next generation of corporate... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

skills, (2) broad perspective, (3) teaming skills, (4) expanded social network, and (5) boundary-spanning skills. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our ideas for conducting future team research. Board of Directors' View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

Nike managers failed to pick up the relevant market signals and learn from them. It took them too long to figure out that consumers wanted something different from what Nike was offering at the time. Unfortunately, Garvin states, this is not an isolated incident in the... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 17 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

boards of directors are keenly interested in the latest sustainability or corporate responsibility report. They do not routinely ask for or receive a product safety review. Risk management committees... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

Canada for prescription drugs as a form of civil disobedience. This kind of grassroots response is an important preliminary step toward addressing the rising costs of medicine, he said. Other speakers included Raytheon Chairman Daniel P.... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

consider? These questions are pivotal whether you aspire to be a corporate innovator driving AI initiatives or a startup founder focused on the burgeoning GenAI market. Understanding the complexities of GenAI goes beyond using... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2017
  • News

Growing from Within

Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Beyond the Numbers

tell a tale, the unassuming Robinson is a kind of John Grisham of the corporate financial world. For the past 25 years, he has been teasing out the narrative thread behind companies' financial data and helping them use the information to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52469 2017 Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism By: Jones, G.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

had before." When Klump discussed the matter with a fellow team member, she laughed and told him, "You are too American! No matter how toned down your comments might be, it's still too direct." The incident and its aftermath, Klump says, were largely... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 03 Jun 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

Summing Up When and Where Will Holacracy Work Best? Holacracy, or self-management, is an interesting concept and not entirely new. It can work, but only under the right conditions. And its applications will be limited. That's what one might conclude from reading View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 17 Dec 2015
  • News

Examining Global Workforce Management

practices that enable them to respond to shifting economic and competitive forces while still making good on responsibilities to their workers and the communities in which they do business. By studying multinationals, she hopes to learn... View Details