Publications

24 Jan 2012
News

The Power of Mentoring

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

away from petty, small disputes and think about embracing the broad idea of Europe writ large. That would help in the search for a sustainable solution to this agonizing, destabilizing, and never-ending Greek crisis. While notable View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

development of theory with the teaching of it in a single enterprise we'll call course research. Conclusions such as those that Shugan and others have reached stem from misconceptions about the relationship of research, theory, case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2008
Working Paper

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe

Read Now

October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)

By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt

The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry

28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

also concerned about instability caused by migration to cities and the large (though decreasing) role of bankrupt, state-owned enterprises that continue to play a Social Security-like role in China. But the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2008 (Revised April 2010)
Case

The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2

By: Allen S. Grossman, Naomi Greckol-Herlich and Cathy Ross

The Bridgespan Group was launched in 2000 by management consulting group Bain & Company as a nonprofit focused on strategy consulting for nonprofits and philanthropists. Over the next eight years, Bridgespan expanded its services to include executive search, knowledge... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Consulting Industry

07 Nov 2018
News

A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis

Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the organization approaches financing... View Details

Keywords: water; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

technical people to collaborate with. Boston isn't the Valley for consumer or New York for enterprise tech, but it's very frequently where the biggest names in those cities got the skills that helped them build their companies. (Which is... View Details

April 2009 (Revised January 2015)
Case

Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi and Aldo Sesia

"Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil rights activist and pioneer. Hooks' positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues

Web

The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Environment Executive Education MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge More HBS Twitter: Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education Faculty... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

In establishing new events and traditions, Stern is in frequent contact with his Melbourne counterpart, Patrick G. O'Brien (MBA '94), president of the Harvard Club of Australia- Victoria (HCAV). O'Brien and Stern agree on the clubs' dual objectives: provide View Details

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

03 Dec 2019
News

Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring

were not attracting the full range of alumni, Sachin Gupta (MBA 2015) had an idea. As vice president of social enterprise for the club, Gupta knew exactly what to do to bring more alumni to the table—quite... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2007
News

KPMG for Mayor!

Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the ballot box, but an entrenched... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Profile

Pranav Kothari

interests. "I was amazed by the infrastructure, how smoothly things functioned here." Impressed both by mechanics and America, Pranav pursued an engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, his curiosity... View Details

Profile

Justine Lelchuk

Philippines. There, she worked with the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction, counseling women in the fine points of business: "business plans, financial statements, how to work with local governments, plus rudimentary... View Details

October 1993
Case

United Way of America: Governance in the Nonprofit Sector (A), The United Way

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Discusses the management practices of William Aramony at the United Way of America (UWA). First, the case describes the United Way movement, focusing on both the local chapters and the national organization. Second, it sets forth the Washington Post reports that lead... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Nonprofit Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Crisis Management; Public Administration Industry; United States