Social Enterprise Institute - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 2008

By: Allen S. Grossman, Thomas J. Steenburgh, Lauren Susan Mehler and Matthew Benjamin Oppenheimer

As with many national non-profits, Planned Parenthood is organized as 100 separate 501(c)3 organizations. What is the best structure for Planned Parenthood to fulfill its mission? View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations

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November 1997 (Revised February 1998)
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Finansol

By: James E. Austin, Roberto Gutierrez, Marc Labie and Enrique Ogliastri

Finansol, created to provide loans to micro-entrepreneurs, encountered considerable difficulties after rapidly growing to become the biggest micro-enterprise lender in Colombia. Major restructuring was required to rescue it. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Microfinance; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry

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20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Harrison, and Tom Martin Abstract—Successful relationships depend on trust—trust between spouses, trust between parent and child, trust between enterprises and their stakeholders. This chapter focuses on the factors that build trust in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Ventures Quantified Ventures supports the progress of the social enterprise community through impact investing. They work with nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, and governments who demonstrate capacity... View Details

November 2020 (Revised September 2021)
Case

BRAC in 2020

By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran

In 2020, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, BRAC, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has some big problems to tackle. Its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, has left behind a challenge: take the 1981-founded organization from Bangladesh to every... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Health; Social Issues; Poverty; Programs; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Education Industry; Health Industry; Bangladesh; South Asia

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01 Jun 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)

Nwogugu with students at Aunty Ayo Girls Comprehensive School in Lagos (photo by Ruth McDowall/The Verbatim Agency) I volunteered at Junior Achievement (JA) in New York when I was working at Goldman Sachs after college. I realized that if I’d had access in Nigeria to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2013-winter/54215/how-to-identify-the-best-customers-for-your-business/ Prolonged Thought: Proposing Type 3 Processing Authors:Dijksterhuis, Ap, Madelijn Strick, Maarten W. Bos, and Loran F. Nordgren Publication:Dual Process... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Tony Deifell

activities with partners such as The Home Depot. I believe this sort of social enterprise work can have a tremendous impact on the non-profit sector, making organizations more sustainable and scalable. As I... View Details

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

cost, but is also a function of the competitiveness of the upstream economy. Moreover, the presence of a gray market competitor may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2007 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Aurolab: Bringing First-World Technology to the Third-World Blind

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Aurolab is the in-house producer of IOLs (required in cataract surgery) for the Aravind Eye Care System, a group of charity hospitals with the largest volume of eye surgery in the world. Aurolab's manufacturing capability and capacity had long exceeded the requirements... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Production; Mission and Purpose; Performance Capacity; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy; India

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March 1997 (Revised July 1998)
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SOS-Kinderdorf International: Caring for Orphaned Children

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

SOS-Kinderdorf, founded in 1949, has grown rapidly into one of the largest orphanages in the world with children's villages, kindergartens, schools, youth facilities, and other complementary programs in 130 countries. This case describes the evolution of the... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; India; Norway; United States

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01 Oct 2002
News

Andrew H. Tisch

things like helping the pool attendant put towels on the chaise longues. It was a family business, so we were all involved.” Tisch Hotels evolved into the Loews Corporation, one of the largest diversified financial enterprises in the... View Details

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Harvard Business School

of Four Innovative, New Institutions Cheryl E. Owens-Howard (DBA) 1983 A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Views of the Relationship Between Consumers and Advertising in the Marketplace Donna B. Stoddard (DBA) 1991 Information... View Details

January 2010
Teaching Note

Youth Villages: The challenges of scaling a nonprofit with government as the primary funding source (TN)

By: Allen S. Grossman

Teaching Note for [309007]. View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Behavior; Cost; Growth and Development Strategy; Age; Business and Government Relations

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

entrepreneurship, and patterns of minority entrepreneurship. Emerging from his pioneering research, the New Jersey Social Innovation Institute and the CUEED Pipeline to Inclusive Innovation are national and... View Details

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-005 Magic Bus: From Childhood to Livelihood Founded in 1999 by Matthew Spacie to give poor children an opportunity to play, Magic Bus had evolved to a leading View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique... View Details

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Market Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl B. Diether, and Christopher J. Malloy Periodical:Journal of Finance 62, no. 5 (October 2007) Abstract Using proprietary data on stock loan fees and quantities from a large institutional investor, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2005 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (A)

By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter

The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club's secret membership is widely believed to exclude women. When feminist advocate Martha Burk receives a mysterious list of "members," she must decide how best to use this information in her efforts to crack the glass ceiling.... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Attitudes; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Gender; Non-Governmental Organizations; Communication Strategy; Sports Industry

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