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Ralph Johnson

impetus for going to business school. What are some of the most important aspects of your HBS experience? My internship, definitely, because it enabled me to pursue two other passions: politics and education. Through the Mayor’s Office... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

May 2025
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Community First! Village: Scaling Goodness?

By: Jan Rivkin and Coelin P. Scibetta

The nonprofit organization Mobile Loaves & Fishes has devised an innovative way to address chronic homelessness: their Community First! Village provides tiny homes, recreational vehicles, and facilities that bring community, housing, support, and work opportunities to... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Social Issues; Texas

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15 Sep 2016
News

The Burning Man Project

are as human beings, and what we have to do with our very short lives. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your... View Details

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

30, 50x the impact that we're having today, because these problems need to get solved for our society to work. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is... View Details

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Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 06 Aug 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud (TAF) Aiyesha Dey Jonas Heese Fall... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

attack an epidemic at the local level. "More than ever before, the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," says Gilmartin, who came to HBS in 2001 to... View Details

March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
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Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The... View Details

Keywords: Venture Philanthropy; Scaling; COVID-19 Pandemic; Social Justice; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Business Model; Social Issues; Poverty; Values and Beliefs; Decisions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Investment Portfolio

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September 1997 (Revised November 1997)
Teaching Note

Cleveland Turnaround, The: Case and Video TN

By: James E. Austin

Teaching Note for (9-796-151), (9-796-152), (9-796-153), (9-796-154), and (9-797-501). View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Government Administration; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Crisis Management; Corporate Accountability; Economic Sectors; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Development Economics; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships

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25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

strong history of commercial development. Pictured is the Bund in Shanghai, the city's financial district along the Huangpu River, in 1899. "After people read this book, they should not be negative on China—we're not negative on China," says Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2008
News

New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence

Lecturer and Senior Researcher Stacey Childress for her Entrepreneurship in Education Reform course Senior Lecturer Stephen Kaufman for his Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course Professor Rakesh Khurana for his Management... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Lara Hodgson

businesses because partnerships between large and small companies don’t always go so well. You get eaten. We struggle with this constantly. We don’t want to pass up great opportunities. So how do you go into working relationships with... View Details

September 2010 (Revised September 2011)
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B Lab: Building a New Sector of the Economy

By: Christopher Marquis, Andrew David Klaber and Bobbi Thomason

The founders of B Lab are on a mission to create a new sector of the economy and are specifically focused on a three objectives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations (B=Benefit) that legally expand their corporate responsibilities to include... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Policy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Value Creation

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16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

the enterprise and repeatedly tried short-term fixes, all while depending too heavily on financial earnings, rather than innovation. Boeing: The world leader in aviation for 100 years, Boeing lost sight of its purpose to produce safe,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was born in Professor Ray A. Goldberg’s agriculture and View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

March 1991 (Revised December 1994)
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Steve Mariotti and NFTE

Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization has gained national recognition, and offers a variety of programs on a budget of nearly half a million dollars. It... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Teaching; Business Startups

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01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

commitment to building businesses made for a good fit," Gregory explains. "Dartmouth, Duke, and MIT also joined us, followed eventually by Princeton, Stanford, and Yale." Among the enterprises that Greylock... View Details

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Paul Luning

"For real impact, we're going to need business to effect change." While there, Paul completed a six-month externship with Current Energy, a Dallas enterprise that reduces energy usage within small... View Details

2010
Working Paper

The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

What does it mean for a nonprofit organization to be accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises—a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy

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