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  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

It's academic. (Not!)

If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than theorizing and crunching numbers.... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • January 2001 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

By: James E. Austin and Kim Slack
Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) is a $74 million nonprofit social enterprise that combats poverty by helping community development organizations build affordable housing and create economic development opportunities through public-private partnerships. Poses a... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Development Economics; Education; Capital; Investment Funds; Taxation; Growth and Development; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Segmentation; Service Industry
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  • 22 Jul 2014
  • News

Hungry for Change

Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • Research Summary

Cross-Sector Partnering

By: James E. Austin
This on-going research project is examining the motivations, dynamics, and effectiveness determinants of partnering between nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government entities. The first major output of the research focusing on nonprofits and businesses was... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement

By: Aiyesha Dey, Joshua White and Austin Starkweather
We examine the influence of proxy advisors on firms’ shareholder engagement behavior. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using Say-On-Pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers a review of engagement activities by Institutional Shareholder Services... View Details
Keywords: Proxy Advisors; ISS; Shareholder Engagement; Disclosure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Corporate Disclosure
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  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

  PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe

The first MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences cohort will enroll in the MS/MBA program in August of 2018.The program is a major collaboration between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and will be co-chaired View Details
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2024 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when permission is given View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Two Decades of Social Progress

The Social Enterprise Initiative began in 1993 with a pioneering mission: develop new insights and innovative approaches to contribute to the well-being of society. Driven by the vision of John Whitehead (MBA 1947) and the leadership of... View Details
  • January 2019
  • Case

Data.gov (Abridged)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi
This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to rapidly develop the website and to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Management; Information Management; Public Administration Industry; Information Industry; United States
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  • May 2010 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Data.gov

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi
This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to rapidly develop the website and to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Management; Information Management; Public Administration Industry; Information Industry; United States
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  • December 2006
  • Case

Vipp A/S

By: Robert D. Austin and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms: Trash bins. Examines how the company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Creativity; Product Design; Luxury; Brands and Branding
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  • 26 Jul 2016
  • News

HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform

HourlyNerd, the red-hot freelance business-talent consultancy launched at HBS by classmates Rob Biederman, Patrick Petitti, and Peter Maglathlin (all MBA 2014), has unveiled a new identity and name,... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

Publication:In Innovation Policy and the Economy. Vol. 11, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. NBER Book Series. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Abstract In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2022
  • News

New School

In late February 2020, the Japanese government announced it would close every school in that country to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the other side of the world, in his Billerica, Massachusetts, office, Rob Waldron (MBA 1992) saw... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

quality of the entries were as strong as ever. The Social Enterprise Track, which is sponsored by HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), fosters innovation across Harvard University. This year’s competitors included 53 teams comprising... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2021
  • News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

Courtesy Austin Scee Courtesy Austin Scee Editor’s note: In college and through his time at HBS, Austin Scee (MBA 2001) volunteered as a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

environment everyday practices. The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World by Fred Reichheld (MBA ’78) with Rob Markey (MBA ’90) (Harvard Business Review Press)... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 09 Jan 2017
  • News

Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader

Austin Scee (MBA 2001) is the founder and CEO of Razorhorse Capital in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in college and through his time at HBS, he volunteered as a mentor with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America. In this interview, he talks... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

competition effect whereby increasing rivalry shapes, and often decreases, incentives to expend effort and invest in innovation; and 2) a parallel search effect whereby adding greater numbers of "searchers" benefits innovation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace