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  • February 2021
  • Case

Measuring Impact at JUST Capital

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Ethan Rouen
JUST Capital is a nonprofit organization that seeks to make public companies more "just" by measuring and ranking their overall impact on society, based on the priorities most important to the average American. This case examines JUST's strategy for influencing... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Ethics; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • March 2007 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

Green Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete?

In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management organization with 10 high-performing high schools around Los Angeles, is faced with a crucial choice... View Details
Keywords: Secondary Education; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Competition; Cooperation; Los Angeles
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  • 28 Jun 2022
  • News

90 Harvard Alumni Held a Class Reunion in the Metaverse. It Shows the Potential of VR—but the Tech Needs to Improve before It Becomes Mainstream.

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • 25 May 2018
    • News

    An Urgent Mission to Speed Progress Against Cancer

    • April 1995
    • Case

    Minnetonka Corporation: From Softsoap to Eternity

    Minnetonka Corp. which was founded in 1964, began as a niche player in the gift soap and novelty toiletries markets. In 1980, it entered--and managed to capture a piece of--the mass bar-soap market with pump-dispensed Softsoap liquid soap. In 1984, the company took on... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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    • 16 Nov 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can Mass General Brigham Diversify Its Community of Innovators?

    Keywords: Re: Katherine B. Coffman; Health
    • June 2006 (Revised January 2007)
    • Case

    Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Herman B. Leonard and Melissa Tritter
    Dana Hall is a private all-girls school in New England facing a crisis in its mission. As social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis Management; Financing and Loans; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Education Industry; England
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    • 06 Apr 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Cheers to the American Consumer

    countries may be the most important of all enablers of entrepreneurship and innovation in America. Why is the American consumer more venturesome? Six factors come to mind. Wealth. The average American... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 20 Mar 2013
    • News

    Sizing Up Social Impact

    • September 1998 (Revised November 1998)
    • Case

    STRIVE

    STRIVE provides employment training and placement to chronically unemployed inner-city minority youth and young adults. This case describes STRIVE's creation as a community-based, single-site nonprofit in Harlem in 1984; the development of its service model (short,... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Growth Management; Employment; Training; Employment Industry
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    • 14 Aug 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

    forces at work in today's digital economy. Two years later, Christensen expounded on his theories in his groundbreaking book, The Innovator's Dilemma. Their HBS colleagues have been adding to View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2020
    • News

    Harvard Business School Announces 2020 Goldsmith Fellows

    • 07 Sep 2017
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Faber-Castell Doubles Down on the Pencil

    Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Information Technology; Manufacturing
    • 31 Jul 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

    fail miserably," HBS Associate Professor Karim Lakhani, who helped organize the project, told a roomful of academic experts on innovation this week. In fact, the effort was so successful,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    Entrepreneurship for All

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Julia Kelley
    Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a Lowell, Massachusetts–based nonprofit that hosts business accelerators for entrepreneurs in underserved communities. By mid-2017, EforAll has five office locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • June 2017
    • Case

    Guillermo Jaime—An Endeavor Entrepreneur

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
    Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the story of Jaime and Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to... View Details
    Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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    • 28 Aug 2024
    • News

    Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

    • 25 Oct 2023
    • News

    Behind the Research: Tomomichi Amano

    • September 2016 (Revised December 2018)
    • Case

    Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Seema Amble
    The case examines the career of Joan Bavaria, a pioneer of socially responsible investing and founder of Trillium Asset Management and Ceres, the nonprofit organization advocating for sustainability leadership. It describes her personal journey from art student and... View Details
    Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career
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