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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Promising Starts
fellow’s compensation with support from these donors: David J. Dunn Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation/Richard L. Menschel Endowment, Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund at Harvard Business School, Richard Lumpkin Dean’s Discretionary Fund,... View Details
- February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool
By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn
The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India
Khaire, Mukti, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool." Harvard Business School Case 810-044, February 2010. (Revised June 2011.)
- Web
Black History Month | Baker Library
Enterprise Magazine Baker's microfilm collection contains the founding issues of Black Enterprise Magazine , a journal that provides "essential business information and advice... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers
enterprise that offers discounts for products and services exclusively to active-duty military, veterans, and their families. ID.me empowers individuals to prove who they are online and get access to benefits and discounts by verifying... View Details
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Jim Warner
late-career decisions and those considering board work. After HBS, Jim joined HBO where during the 1980’s he helped launch Cinemax, expand HBO’s international footprint and build a content syndication business. At CBS in the 1990’s he led the company’s View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
a business in which there are increasing returns. To put the point another way, it is far easier to found a start-up if there are 10 other entrepreneurs nearby. In many respects, founders and venture capitalists benefit from their peers.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Cardiac Kid
HUENNEKENS: In matters of the heart, developing innovative technologies. Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune/Zuma Press In 2002, when Scott Huennekens (MBA ’91) became president and CEO of San Diego–based Volcano Corp., a medical-devices company, he was its... View Details
- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Sawiris Foundation: Elevating Education in Egypt
By: Brian Trelstad and Alpana Thapar
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-023. Founded in 2001 by the Sawiris family, one of the wealthiest families in Egypt, the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD) invested in human capital and provision of basic social services for the most marginalized... View Details
- August 2017
- Supplement
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Evan Siddall, newly appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation, a governmental organization focused on the residential housing market, is charged with leading change at the organization. The case follows this process of change step by step and looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Organization Behavior; Government; Performance; Leadership; Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Nonprofit Organizations; Government Administration; Restructuring; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-701, August 2017.
- March 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Fleet Financial Group Sponsorship of Monet in the 20th Century
By: Stephen A. Greyser and David Crockett
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Fleet Financial Group's sponsored the Monet in the 20th Century exhibition, the world's largest, in 1998. The case chronicles the solicitation of a large corporate sponsor, as well as the growth and development of their... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Finance; Product Development; For-Profit Firms; Partners and Partnerships; Arts; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Fine Arts Industry; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
Greyser, Stephen A., and David Crockett. "The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Fleet Financial Group Sponsorship of Monet in the 20th Century." Harvard Business School Case 502-059, March 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
week we're thinking of new ways to effectively reach people,” says Pasquariello. “And learning and adapting.” Susan Young: What is the impact of the virus on the neighborhoods you serve? Justin Pasquariello: Our community has a lot of service and restaurant workers. So... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Trisha Prabhu | MBA
Trisha Prabhu Government (Tech Science), Secondary in Economics Cabot 2022 Cohort 3 I'm passionate about using technology to solve social issues and build social enterprises. I'm excited to join a community of like-minded individuals -- folks working at the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/Partner_Persist_20130115.pdf Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case By: Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and Stephan Aier... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
(MBA 2007). Mobius’s founder, British entrepreneur Joel Jackson, moved to rural Kenya to work in a micro-forestry enterprise in 2009. During his field visits, he encountered the problem of expensive secondhand vehicles, many of them... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz In 2018, long-time friends Mark Verdi and Jan Swartz (both MBA 1996) were part of the first cohort of MBA alumni to attend The Reflective Leader, a program designed for successful View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Jason Flood
about the future of tech. Google was my dream job—and I got it. I had a fantastic experience there, and my life plan was to scale the ranks at Google.” But his cancer experience, Jason says, “inspired a passion to get involved in health care.” Enrolled in both Harvard... View Details
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A Polaroid Timeline 1932–1977 | Baker Library
A Polaroid Timeline 1932–1977 1932 Land-Wheelwright Laboratories Edwin Land and George Wheelwright form Land-Wheelwright Laboratories, a research and manufacturing enterprise that develops synthetic polarizers. 1937 The Polaroid... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
would stand on the stage in Burden Hall at HBS and present his business plan at the Social Enterprise Conference “Pitch for Change” competition. Haryopratomo: Actually, that's why I went to View Details
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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
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
of globalization continues today. Business Solutions for the Global Poor edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton (Jossey-Bass Publishers) This book, edited by HBS professors and associates, presents... View Details