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- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
have grown very rich over the past 2 centuries, and others have remained very poor. Al's research was so compelling that it shaped a generation of research far beyond historians, in business administration and strategy, and he was a formative influence on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
learned first-hand about this inequity as a child in Philadelphia’s public schools. During a recent interview with Manny Maceda, Bain & Company’s worldwide managing partner, Frazier reflected on his experience: “My younger sister and I came along at a time when the... View Details
- February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation
By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull
With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem.... View Details
Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
Nanda, Ramana, Benjamin N. Roth, and Olivia Hull. "Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 820-007, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.)
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Debora L. Spar | About
social structures. Spar tackles some of these issues in her latest book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny . Spar served as the President of Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and as President and CEO of Lincoln... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Student Success at Georgia State University (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-006, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
impact in a way he hadn’t in his last job. He likes to tell the story of being at a social event not long ago when a young child, maybe 10 years old, approached him. “He reached out to me and said, ‘Mr. Williams, I just want to thank you... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic transitions: (1) increasing external focus, (2) moving to greater openness, (3) focusing on enabling interactions, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, a privately held View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
connections to industry leaders in this space. For example, the fellows had an in-person session during the ClimateCAP Conference in February, where we critiqued and offered feedback on each other’s project ideas. For this summer, our team is also leveraging resources... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
disconnect between those who ran the homeless shelters, who typically had a background in social work, and those who made the decisions about funding and resources in the main office, who typically had a business background. Leimsider... View Details
- September 2021 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Harambe: Mobilizing Capital in Africa
By: Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Francesco Tronci
Harambe was a non-profit organization whose mission was to build an ecosystem to identify promising young African entrepreneurs and provide them access to training, markets, capital, and support networks. From 2007 to 2021, Harambe had grown to a network of 367... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Model; Strategy; Organizational Structure; Business Startups; Capital; Venture Capital; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Developing Countries and Economies; Emerging Markets; Africa; South Africa
Sikochi, Anywhere (Siko), Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and Francesco Tronci. "Harambe: Mobilizing Capital in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 122-021, September 2021. (Revised February 2023.)
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
that innovation comes from the edges"). Thus, the program is not viewed as a subsidized Corporate Social Responsibility activity but as a positive net benefit activity, as well as a way of addressing skills shortages by tapping into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
only by looking at our individual and social behaviors can we measure how effectively we adapt. Q: Why do you say the goal of a business is to achieve superior sustainable performance? "I wanted to take a look at pairs of successful... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
assistance policy. It helps establish a basis for improved estimates of the gains from past and current practices that worked against African economic, social, and political institutions and systems. This edited volume showcases a variety... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
attend HBS, returning to the bank upon graduation. His tenure at State Street has included the positions of executive vice president, vice chairman, CFO,and treasurer. A 205-year-old institution that has generally hired its leaders from... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
that this might work less well in continental Europe.) Try to be concrete rather than abstract about economy-wide benefits of globalization. Findings such as those from the McKinsey Global Institute that for every dollar the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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strategic opportunities. Current use giving has supported a number of Dean Datar’s strategic initiatives, including the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3), digital transformation, and the View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland