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- January 2023
- Case
The END Fund: To Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
Founded in 2012, the END fund focused on eliminating five Neglected Tropical Diseases that accounted for 80% of the tropical diseases affecting nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its roughly $25 million/year annual budget was fully committed when it got news that the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Global Range; Decisions; Investment Funds
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "The END Fund: To Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases." Harvard Business School Case 523-063, January 2023.
- March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
- Background Note
Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman
Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
Goldberg, Ray A., Laura Winig, and Kerry Herman. "Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models." Harvard Business School Background Note 907-412, March 2007. (Revised December 2007.)
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
carried out aggressive social distancing measures over the past several months, with many imposing a lockdown that allows only for essential functions, such as buying food or seeking medical care. At the extreme, China’s Hubei (the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
cost, serving as a national model. Failure, on the other hand, would have high institutional costs. Dr. Joaquin Montero, the head of Ancora and its intellectual father, must address the controversial project in the context of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
are also shown to be actors in periodic deglobalization waves. This was because their function was to reinforce the gaps in wealth and income rather than disrupt them. Business enterprises proved disappointing View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, and institutional efforts to handle... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
measured? How does India’s accountability rank against other countries? Does accountability affect economic and social performance? He examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable,... View Details
- October 25, 2022
- Article
Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business
By: José A. Tiburcio, Lino Miguel Dias and Robert S. Kaplan
Subsistence dairy ranchers in Central America struggle to stay afloat during the dry season when grass is scarce. Global life sciences company Bayer has launched a program to enable them to produce their own corn silage feed. The results of this program are helping to... View Details
Keywords: Sharing Economy; Innovation; Economic Growth; Poverty; Production; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Central America
Tiburcio, José A., Lino Miguel Dias, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 25, 2022).
- October 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
CRA Managed Care, Inc. (B)
By: Myra M. Hart and Susan Harmeling
An entrepreneur's transition from chairman/CEO of a large privately held company, to chairman of a public company, to leadership in several large nonprofit organizations is chronicled. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
Hart, Myra M., and Susan Harmeling. "CRA Managed Care, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 899-069, October 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
been a series of interwoven threads. Coming back to HBS has been an opportunity to tie them together," says Senior Lecturer Diana Barrett. The most recent of the three to return to HBS, Barrett joined the faculty in 1998, drawn by her love of teaching, the School's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Jun 2010
- News
Natural Causes
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
firms, which by definition have enjoyed some measure of success, are more likely to deny new realities because the old ones worked well for them. Young enterprises are not similarly weighed down by the dead hand of history. But that does... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
neighborhoods. “It’s almost like a social movement,” says Raffaelli, who says indie bookstores are “anchors of authenticity in an ever-increasing digital and disconnected world.” The notion goes beyond a bond with customers to include... View Details
- Profile
Scott Wu
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded middle school, and served as... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
corruption and socially responsible behavior influence corporate profitability. He has found that bribery and corruption, while they may boost sales, lead to a loss in profits. Businesses that tackle environmental, social, and governance... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
daycare center with operating hours from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The teachers were frustrated because several parents were consistently late in picking up their children, so the daycare instituted a new policy: a $3 fine for every late... View Details
- June 2008
- Teaching Note
Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for [inse107038]. View Details
- September 2002
- Teaching Note
Strategic Planning at NFTE
By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
Teaching Note for (9-302-002). View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
the University of Rochester in 1977 and served as its director until 1988. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the steering committee of Harvard's Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, an interfaculty effort to study the limitations of the human brain. Jensen is also... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
choices will we make? How will we reimagine this institution and leave it stronger than we found it? "When I look at the challenges facing our world today, I'm convinced that now more than ever we need the type of leadership Harvard... View Details