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- March 2022
- Case
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley
In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Government and Politics; Knowledge; Knowledge Dissemination; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Networks; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Demographics; Diversity; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Julia Kelley. "The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021." Harvard Business School Case 322-052, March 2022.
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
downs of their companies, and the ability of those enterprises to create jobs. “Before this, the most prominent source of information we had was self-employment statistics,” says Kerr. Self-employment, however, can mean many things and is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents to drive their... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- Career Coach
Wendi Zhang
Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3) upon reaching the next goal -... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature
By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing so, the company developed direct... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Sequestration; Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
Iansiti, Marco, Michael W. Toffel, and James Barnett. "Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature." Harvard Business School Case 620-024, November 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
- February 2006 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment
By: Michael Chu and Barbara Zepp Larson
Post-merger, the head of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide must now oversee operations in 98 countries serving 6.6 million students, with over 7,600 local chapter board directors. President and CEO David Chernow's own board has increased to 111 members. Two separate... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance; Business or Company Management; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Balance and Stability
Chu, Michael, and Barbara Zepp Larson. "JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment." Harvard Business School Case 306-025, February 2006. (Revised May 2006.)
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
received a call from a small manufacturing plant in Medfield, Massachusetts. They had read Douglas McGregor's now classic book The Human Side of Enterprise and wanted to implement, in their relatively new plant, his ideas about how... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
2023. The Rock Center, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, and HBS clubs and associations cosponsor the annual New Venture Competition (NVC) for both students and alumni. The alumni track is open to HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
book based on their expertise. Les chantiers de ma vie by Claude Lefebvre (OPM 10, 1985) with Hélène-Andrée Bizier (Cyfbel) An autobiography of an engineer and entrepreneur from Québec. Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the View Details
- January 2013 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Pittsburgh
By: Eric Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer
The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the... View Details
Keywords: Google; Population; City Growth; Shale; PNC; Tom Murphy; Luke Ravenstahl; Public-private Partnership; Tax Increment Financing; Brownfields; Renaissance; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; City; Business and Government Relations; Taxation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Higher Education; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Pittsburgh
Werker, Eric, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy, and Andrew Knauer. "Pittsburgh." Harvard Business School Case 713-035, January 2013. (Revised October 2015.)
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
initiatives and projects created by the School to foster interdisciplinary research on the great problems and opportunities facing society—including such topics as business and the environment, health care, US competitiveness, social... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
people in industrializing societies to get themselves into debt. At the same time, waged employment in booming nineteenth-century cities created a class of borrowers who lacked the social networks necessary for older types of neighborly... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He is on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation and several AI-based startups. Sharing their research on hundreds of View Details
- December 2005 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Migros
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
In October 2005, Urs Riedener, head of marketing at Swiss retailer Migros, is contemplating the company's competitive position. Primarily a retailer for foods and near-foods products, the cooperative Migros, with close to 600 retail outlets in Switzerland (but only... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Corporate Governance; Corporate Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Supply Chain Management; Product Marketing; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Switzerland
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
business. As somebody who loves the free enterprise system, I believe excessive compensation has contributed to lowering the legitimacy of the free market system because it ends up making the system look more like a game than an... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Mistry Architects (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
This case is a follow-up to "Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (A)" (Case 609-044) and (B) (Case 609-064). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu Mistry founded and run an architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible.... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Environmental Sustainability
Edmondson, Amy C., Robert G. Eccles, and Mona Sinha. "Mistry Architects (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-086, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
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Past Issues - Alumni
are many business schools scrambling to fix what a chorus of critics claim is badly broken? And where does that leave HBS? Complete Table of Contents June 2008 Kash Rangan Cofounder of the HBS Social View Details