Professor James E. Austin - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 1990
Teaching Note

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

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June 1990
Teaching Note

Citibank in Zaire (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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June 1990
Teaching Note

Packages Ltd. (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

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01 Feb 1999
News

Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy

empirical studies and was facilitated by an HBS faculty member. The first session, for instance, facilitated by Social Enterprise faculty chair Professor James E. Austin,... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Books

Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In her new book Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter declares that soon... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Faculty Books

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth (MBA 2010), and Karen Dillon (HarperBusiness) At a time of intense personal reflection, Christensen, the Kim B. Clark Professor of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Article

Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?

By: James E. Austin and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard

What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but they also pose unusually difficult challenges... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Style; Agreements and Arrangements; Social Enterprise; Social Issues

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August 2001 (Revised April 2003)
Case

International Trachoma Initiative

By: Diana Barrett, James E. Austin and Sheila McCarthy

In an effort to combat trachoma, a major eye disease, the Clark Foundation entered into a partnership with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. After a successful pilot project, a joint initiative was established (the Trachoma initiative) that has as its goal to eradicate the... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Globalization; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Industry

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2000
Working Paper

Social Enterprise Series No. 16: Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

By: Diana Barrett, James E. Austin and Sheila McCarthy

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April 1986 (Revised June 1986)
Supplement

Mexico and the Microcomputers (C)

By: James E. Austin and Dennis J. Encarnation III

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02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

encourage production. Negotiating in Three Dimensions "Negotiation is increasingly a way of life for effective managers," say HBS professor James Sebenius and colleague David Lax. Their new book,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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The Experience | Information Technology

teaching experience. As soon as you make your first cold call, the technology seems to fade away. I never want to teach in any other classroom again. I love it here! Nancy F. Koehn Baker Foundation Professor View Details

2008
Working Paper

Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?

By: James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard

What happens when small iconic socially-oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Style; Agreements and Arrangements; Social Enterprise; Social Issues

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September 2002
Case

KaBOOM!

By: James E. Austin and Jose Miguel Porraz

KaBOOM! is a nonprofit organization developing playgrounds in partnership with corporations and communities. It has grown since 1995 to a national organization that has built 338 playgrounds in partnerships with over 40 companies. This case deals with the nature of... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development

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