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  • 15 Aug 2012
  • News

Nonprofits quantify their success

  • 2014
  • Book

Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare

By: Gunnar Trumbull
Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces... View Details
Keywords: Attitudes; Credit; France; United States
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    Global Accountabilities

    Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on... View Details

    • Program

    Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

    Summary Performance measurement is essential for organizational innovation, learning, and success. Nonprofits, however, must evaluate social or environmental outcomes as well as financial performance, and the ideal metrics are not always... View Details
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

    When budgeting for expenses, people may want to consider including a line item for giving, since a growing body of research shows that spending money on others can provide a mental boost. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans recently partnered... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 24 Jun 2019
    • News

    Bookstores Find Growth as ‘Anchors of Authenticity’

    • January–February 2023
    • Article

    Triadic Advocacy Work

    By: Summer R. Jackson and Katherine C. Kellogg
    Scholars of street-level bureaucracy and institutional research focus primarily on the relationships between advocates and their larger bureaucratic and social systems, assuming that advocates have little need to satisfy their beneficiaries. We find otherwise in our... View Details
    Keywords: Occupations And Professions; Ethnography; Power And Politics; Work And Organizations; Advocacy; Public Management; Justice
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    • 13 Jun 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking

    Keywords: by Juliana Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino & Michael I. Norton

      Henry W. McGee

      Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

      Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry
      • December 2005 (Revised August 2007)
      • Case

      NewSchools Venture Fund in 2004: At a Crossroads

      By: Stacey M. Childress and Caroline Joan King
      Founded as one of the first venture philanthropy organizations in the United States in 1998, NewSchools Venture Fund brought new investors and new ideas to public education reform. By 2004, the organization and its founder were reassessing their model and their role in... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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      • 19 Jun 2012
      • News

      Pricing Lessons From the London Olympics

      • 06 Jun 2017
      • News

      Will business fill the Paris void?

      • 21 Oct 2022
      • News

      An Introduction to BiGS

      • February 2017 (Revised January 2018)
      • Case

      Womenomics in Japan

      By: Boris Groysberg, Mayuka Yamazaki, Nobuo Sato and David Lane
      This case profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy—not as a matter of social policy or gender equity per se, but as an essential element of any solution to... View Details
      Keywords: Gender Equality; Japan; Leadership; Government-business Relations; Shinzo Abe; Economic Growth; Aging Society; Womenomics; Abenomics; Labor Market Discrimination; Workplace Culture; Women And Leadership; Change Management; Leading Change; Gender; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development; Employment; Working Conditions
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      • 18 Apr 2022
      • HBS Case

      Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

      cases entitled “Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out of the Gun Business.” “Standing on the societal sidelines is increasingly becoming less of an option for companies and business leaders.” Riedel stresses that no two companies are the same. Other firms looking to take... View Details
      Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
      • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
      • Case

      World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

      By: Anita Elberse and Melissa Rodman
      World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) develops and presents scripted hero-versus-villain storylines featuring its wrestlers at hundreds of live events—on several weekly television shows, on its own over-the-top streaming service, and on social media—to millions of... View Details
      Keywords: Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; Labor Economics; General Management; Entertainment; Sports; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Contracts; Marketing; Strategy
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      • 07 Feb 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

      Schumpeter strays in Business Cycles onto whatever tangents interest him. Today, research efforts comparable to what Schumpeter was trying to do often employ teams of half a dozen statisticians, economists, and other social scientists.... View Details
      Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
      • June 2006 (Revised April 2007)
      • Case

      Wendy Kopp and Teach For America (A)

      By: William W. George, Diana Mayer and Andrew N. McLean
      In 1995, Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach for America, faces a worsening budget shortfall and sharpening challenges from education experts concerning her organization's mission and effectiveness. Provides information on the leadership development of the... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Leadership Development; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry; North and Central America
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      CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The... View Details