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- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Oftentimes an organization might be engaged in a partnership at one point or another, or be a member of an umbrella organization ... but it's not really a network approach... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2022
- Chapter
Interrogating Corporate Purpose: Values Based Firms and the Struggle to Build a Just and Sustainable World
Book Abstract: Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and... View Details
Henderson, Rebecca. "Firms, Morality, and the Search for a Better World." Chap. 7 in A Political Economy of Justice, edited by Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson, and Joshua Simons, 187–209. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
The Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) welcomed scholars to Harvard Business School last year to advance their research about race, diversity,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A legacy of social and environmental respect
preserve his native Odishan culture. “Through my films, I hope to create an awareness in the world about the threat of climate change, the need... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth,” and “an expropriation of human rights.” The book is both a cri de coeur and a call to arms in... View Details
- July 2021 (Revised October 2023)
- Case
K.C. Li: The Tungsten King
By: Geoffrey Jones and Casey Verkamp
This case examines the business career of Kuo-Ching Li, who was born in China in 1892, and built a successful minerals trading business called Wah Chang in the United States during the interwar years. He acquired a prominent role in tungsten, the strongest natural... View Details
Keywords: Immigration Acts; Racial Bias; Globalization; Government and Politics; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry; China; United States; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Casey Verkamp. "K.C. Li: The Tungsten King." Harvard Business School Case 322-024, July 2021. (Revised October 2023.)
- 2023
- Book
Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World
By: Mattias Fibiger
After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a... View Details
Keywords: Indonesia; Cold War; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; International Investment; International Relations; International Finance; History; War; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Indonesia; Southeast Asia
Fibiger, Mattias. Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
people buy high and sell low. “We can begin to learn which parts of the brain govern how we feel, how we respond to stimuli, and how we react to challenges” Brain scanning technology adds a new dimension to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Invitational, ready to do something that had never been done before in the history of the race: Complete a 1,000-mile trek across View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
mechanism, progressively raises the standard of life of the masses.” As James Tobin, one of Schumpeter’s best... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
2008). Li and Bernoff are Forrester Research analysts deeply plugged into technology and social computing. “While you can’t stop it, you can understand it. You can not only live with it; you can thrive in it,” Li and Bernoff write. In fact, you can’t afford not to be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Can't Knock the Hustle
POSEUR: A "living statue" mysteriously materialized A guerrilla-marketing campaign designed to promote a book about rapper and entertainment mogul Jay-Z became the subject of a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
While it wasn’t 100% perfect, there were a lot more offline conversations and learnings that took place over email than expected. We shared: Book recommendations (including The Innovators by Walter Isaacson,... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- April 2009 (Revised April 2009)
- Background Note
Note on the Nonprofit Sector
By: Allen S. Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich
This note introduces students to the current state of the nonprofit sector around the world. It also provides insight into the sector's origin and purpose as well as the identifying important current trends. The note draws on numerous sources to provide a single... View Details
Grossman, Allen S., and Naomi Greckol-Herlich. "Note on the Nonprofit Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 308-033, April 2009. (Revised from original May 2008 version.)
- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
you can still profit while marginalizing groups of workers.” “It's about the fact that there are barriers to inclusion and there has been a history View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
organizational performance. In a thought-provoking book published last year, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton suggest that the overriding impact of leadership on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
expertise can easily slip out the door when an employee leaves or retires. You need to capture and transfer that knowledge. One way to do that is through coaching, and the following View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 2022
- Chapter
Buying Time? The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia
By: Mattias Fibiger
This article examines the “buying time thesis”—the idea that the American war in Vietnam bought time for the rest of Southeast Asia to build up political, economic, military, and diplomatic defenses against communism. It finds that there is some truth to claims that... View Details
Keywords: Vietnam War; Impact; Legacy; Geopolitics; War; History; Government and Politics; Southeast Asia
Fibiger, Mattias. "Buying Time? The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia." In The Vietnam War in the Pacific World, edited by Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall, 231–256. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.