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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Lesson Plans

uses a venture philanthropy model that makes early- and growth-stage investments in NGOs focused on high-quality, affordable schools; human capital development; technology in education; and school accountability." "When the business... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

are doing projects together with the United Nations, with the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Family and education. Joint projects are doing even better advocacy and helping social change as well as supporting the NGOs in the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

the effort was launched in less than 24 hours and has already matched 24,000 volunteers with more than 200 parties looking for help and matched 16,000 earthquake victims searching for a job with more than 1,100 employers committed to prioritize them. “We also assist... 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
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

of monitoring by private civil-society actors can be particularly valuable in countries where government labor inspection agencies are weak.” That finding in particular may be helpful not only to a company looking to choose a country for its overseas production, Toffel... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 27 Jul 2017
  • News

Seeing a Way Forward

seen around the world,” Leger observes. Following graduation, she spent two years as a junior professional associate at the World Bank, working with government and NGO representatives internationally. “I eventually came to the conclusion... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 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
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Publication:Environmental History 13, no. 4 (October 2008): 684-694 Abstract The ability to detect and measure the presence of synthetic chemicals at trace levels in humans coupled to increased environmental NGO mobilization concerning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

Cynthia A. Montgomery, Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Dawn LauHarvard Business School Case 712-414 CARD (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development) is a Philippines-based microfinance organization that began as an NGO and has since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Case 118-051 Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

democratic decision-making and accountability," Ebrahim told the committee. As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor of Global Accountabilities:... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

resource endowment explanation. The paper argues that the ecotourism industry was a co-creation of the public, private, and tertiary sectors. While the role of the government and conservation NGOs is acknowledged in the existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Politics we observe firms working more closely with NGOs and other special interest groups to preempt unfavorable policy choices, react swiftly to crises, and proactively develop socially responsible strategies. In Public Politics, firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a $9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the final year of the project, presents the project’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

Kathleen L. McGinn and Cailin B. HammerHarvard Business School Case 910-017 A growing NGO based in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, is facing a complete change in leadership as the founders step back. At the same time, a $1 million grant presents... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

leaders from Harvard Business School who discuss theory with practices from the world's top corporations to show how businesses, NGOs and government organizations can use business solutions to add social value to the world's poorest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne