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- November 1999 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise
By: Robert S. Kaplan
New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations from individuals who wish to invest in nonprofit enterprises that could have a significant social impact and the... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Nonprofit Organizations; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Service Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 100-052, November 1999. (Revised July 2001.)
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Redefining Work Life
wanted to define herself by more than her professional status and financial rewards,” reported Business Week (March 29, 2004) in its cover story on Fudge’s departure from — and return to — the workforce. After two years during which Fudge... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
and capital may benefit greatly from a VC’s experience, contacts, and financial resources. A downside is that VCs often will be inclined toward courses of action that a King founder might not like. Also, it’s important to remember that in... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings.... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
and develop friendships with those outside your class as well." The academic program began early the next day and included presentations by W. Earl Sasser, Jr., the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management and chair of the School's... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Allen Yang
While Allen Yang certainly has the intellectual chops to tackle big ideas, he's always had a hunger for the tangible and the practical—for hands-on reality. "In college, I studied economics," Allen says. "But it was all theoretical. I wanted to see how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war left his father View Details
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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
Both Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde and her husband, Alain, had completed master’s degrees, and had considerable experience in corporate finance. But Alain was eager to go the United States to get an MBA, and in what might be considered a foreshadowing of the negotiation... View Details
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Mohamed Farid
Mohamed Farid, MBA 2015, likes change. In the last ten years, he's worked in nine different cities from Boston to Bangalore, Dubai, Cairo, Montreal, Ottawa, Chicago, San Francisco, and Waterloo, Canada. "So if you ever ask me where I'm from, you'll get a confused... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One participant wondered how the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Celebrations in LA, Florida, London
relevance and to the strength of European alumni interest in broadening and deepening the School’s efforts to that end. The campaign, which runs through December 2005 and has already raised more than $400 million, is designed to support five key areas: student View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
hours reduce electricity bills? Perhaps for the first time, small-business owners accustomed to monthly accounting might need to track day-to-day spending so they can react quickly to changing economic conditions. Free and low-cost tools from banks and fintech firms... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
way. Publisher's link: http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814434093 Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery. By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Photo courtesy of James Ellerker Photography The Question: There’s a necessary element of bulk in the rental business—if you only needed one or two pieces you’d just buy them, Giridharadas says. Her question is how to get there. A chef View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Medical Device Industry Council Harvard Business School Case 706-498 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706498 Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective Harvard Business School Case 207-059... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Arjun Chopra
production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 10 of the top 20 Global financial institutions), managed over 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was recognized as one of AWS' top 22 partners... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
to his home country of South Africa and established Allan Gray Investment Counsel, a firm dedicated to meeting clients’ needs, including delivering superior returns through rigorous company research. While many financial institutions then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
imbalance. Gates noted that about half of the foundation’s annual grants, or $1.6 billion, is devoted to global health, with around $800 million each devoted to grassroots financial services in the... View Details