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HBS - The year in Review

college or university. This year's group of 17 Fellows included students from Wellesley College, Princeton University, Carleton College, and Georgia Institute of Technology. New Venture Competition hosts 24th contest Led by the Arthur... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

financial services firm helps small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital and scale their businesses. In the... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

words, the organization has as its main purpose the advancement of a set of social goals and the creation of social value. That obviously (by law!) includes nonprofit organizations, but it can also include the so-called new social View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

invests substantially in a small portfolio of local nonprofits, each a market-based enterprise such a Juma Ventures, which recruits high-risk urban youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops. They closely... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

ago. It has done more for China's small- and medium-sized enterprises than any government policy, ministry, or bank. Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

stems from the Catholic Worker movement's personalist tradition, which means that Haley House staff and volunteers work intensely with small numbers of people as a way of trying to create deeper change in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2014
News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

The question for us is about next steps: Do we go deep in small and medium-sized markets where we know our product works well? Or go wide and try... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Bringing It Back Home

conjunction with the Social Enterprise Initiative, gives nonprofit leaders the tools to look at their operations from a strategic level. The giving goes both ways, however. The faculty—including Alnoor Ebraham, Allen Grossman, Janice... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

mistrust of global corporations and the threat they pose to sovereignty, having such a UN imprimatur would be crucial. Once the charter was adopted, a select group of global corporations, called WDC Partners, would establish the WDC... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

write a check to community residents or a small neighborhood organization to do the work. And that, indeed, is what many companies do. A great deal of business participation in social sector problems derives... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

For many years, Americans have shown their generosity to myriad nonprofit organizations. And 1999 was no exception, as charitable giving in this country reached a record high of just over $190 billion. At the same time, however, there is... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

Career Coach

Jon Puz

background spans from small to large companies across most sectors of the industry (particularly health IT / digital health, healthcare services, provider, payor, and some pharma/biotech). Jon also has... View Details

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

with small companies looking for help, struggles to define a growth plan for the future. The company, started as a class project in HBS' FIELD 3 course, is assessing three growth paths: shifting its target from small- View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

Botswana, for instance—that the creation of profitable businesses is the key. They provide the jobs, income, and motivation for education and individual development that raise standards of living. Small-... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

Profile

Michael O. Braimah

marketability." After Amal Sale, Michael reached out to an HBS contact he met a few years earlier at the Africa Business Conference, joining him at his private-equity firm, Kaizen Venture Partners. There, Michael was part of a small... View Details

27 Oct 2021
Blog Post

HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

report. Small businesses are a major growth lever for wealth creation and employment in Massachusetts and across the country. Yet, many BIPOC-led View Details

Profile

Evelyne White

markets. The question for us is about next steps: Do we go deep in small and medium-sized markets where we know our product works well? Or go wide View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

stipulation that savings are intended for asset-building purposes only—for real estate investment, post-secondary education, and building a small business, for example. IDA participants would be required to... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

management practices, but low enough that they were familiar with day-to-day operations. The researchers also chose to target primarily small and medium-sized firms, employing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Business School faculty members highlight the leadership skills and qualities that separate the good from great. How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak COVID-19 put many View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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