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  • 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

choices. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-064 OpenInvest Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

impacting the mainstream scientific community. Could this NGO model of funding the “right” clinical trials be successful? Could it be duplicated across other scientific areas? What can be learned from NuSI’s experience? And what is the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Mar 2015
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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
  • 02 Feb 2016
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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
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

mission, and meeting the expectations of a demanding capital market. Additionally, Compartamos' Co-CEOs must decide how to face the highly polarized reactions in the microfinance industry to its IPO. In the process, the case examines the history of Compartamos, from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
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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
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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
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

Management Nava Ashraf and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 910-030 This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Apr 2010
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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
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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
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

Sustainability through Partnering: Conceptualizing Partnerships between Businesses and NGOs Author:James E. Austin Publication:Chap. 3 in Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development: Reflections on Theory and Practice.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

The Wise Men

International Economy (BGIE) and teaching other courses centered on business-government relations and comparative ideology. He is currently working to start an antipoverty alliance of multinationals, governments, and NGOs that is the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

patient numbers in both NGO data and government registers by 20% and underreporting of treatment interruptions by 25%. We find no effect on worker or patient satisfaction. This suggests biometric technology is both an effective and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Liberia in 2005. Both deals have fallen apart as they came under attack by NGOs and as the country took a turn toward democracy. Wisely, both companies have decided that renegotiation is better than defending the indefensible. Q: You... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-048 Associação Saúde Criança: Trying to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Associação Saúde Criança in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

reporting's current state of play, the authors provide guidance to ensure wider adoption of the practice and success of the movement, starting with how companies can improve their own reporting processes. But the support of investors, regulators, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors, rating of microfinance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

does not award funds to founders. What if my role is not based in one of the qualified Asian countries, but my work focuses on a qualified country (e.g. NGO based in the US, or a UK private equity firm investing in Asia)? The GO: ASIA... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

increasing awareness in the early 2000s, to being a dominant theme today. The High Sustainability firms in this study pay attention to their relationships with stakeholders—such as employees, customers, and NGOs representing civil... View Details
Keywords: by Staff