Publications

March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
Case

Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The... View Details

Keywords: Venture Philanthropy; Scaling; COVID-19 Pandemic; Social Justice; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Business Model; Social Issues; Poverty; Values and Beliefs; Decisions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Investment Portfolio

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

insure that the wealthy provided their proportionate share of funding to enable government to channel funds to such endeavors as the environment, support for the poor, and the development of the arts. The objective was to create a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

Drop it on the ground. Sprinkle water on its surface. Let it sit in the sun and expose it to swarms of dust—the XO laptop is designed to handle most any abuse from a child. But the journey of the XO laptop from concept to the educational... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

low-value assets in high-risk areas? In the long run it will not make economic sense for society to keep rebuilding homes that have been destroyed multiple times, or to raise ground floors in stores and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

March 1996 (Revised January 2002)
Case

Freeport Indonesia

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

In 1996, PT Freeport Indonesia, the mining subsidiary of Freeport McMoRan, had just completed an expansion of its copper and gold mine in the western half of New Guinea. The mine, which had dealt with numerous environmental and sociocultural problems over the past... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Mining; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Expansion; Social Issues; Mining Industry; Indonesia

15 Jan 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance

the people and society around them, while at the same time being dead inside. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of success... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

March 2024
Article

Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

By: Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel

We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over 20 years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that... View Details

Keywords: Religion; Human Capital; Developing Countries and Economies; Welfare; Kenya

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July 2002
Case

Introducing ... The XFL!

By: Susan M. Fournier, Stephen A. Greyser and Seth Schulman

When the XFL professional football league debuted on February 3, 2001, it generated a Nielsen rating of 10.1, higher than any nationally televised program in a Saturday evening time slot. The next week, ratings plummeted, and by week nine the XFL game earned the title... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Culture; Commercialization

07 Aug 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

Profile

Tiffany Niver

Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? I went to a liberal arts college and felt I needed to round out my skills and obtain specific areas of knowledge in business. I... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Retail; Consulting

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

Cross-sector partnerships between for-profit and nonprofit organizations are increasing in frequency and importance. Such collaborations, write Diana Barrett, James Austin and... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

Web

Barbara DeLollis Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Steering a steady course for Argentina's future

Cristiano Rattazzi (MBA 1973), CEO of Fiat Argentina and president of the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, talks about helping to steer a steady course for the country's future. (Published April 2014) View Details

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

a short case that presents the idea for a new business in the global art market and asks students to evaluate whether it will work, given the structure and unique workings of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2008
Case

Entrepreneurial Leadership in Forming High Tech Enclaves: Lessons from the Government of Andhra Pradesh

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ramiro Montealegre and Espen Andersen

This case provides an overview of the entrepreneurial leadership taken by the government of India's Andhra Pradesh state in promoting the IT sector and using it to improve the status of the state's economic position in the early years of the third millennium. View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; Information Technology; Andhra Pradesh