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      • 1 Jul 2008
      • Conference Presentation

      The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Geographic Communities

      By: Julie Battilana, Tina Dacin, Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Geography; Civil Society or Community
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      Battilana, Julie, Tina Dacin, Johanna Mair, and Christian Seelos. "The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Geographic Communities." Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, July 01, 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Case

      From xiaonei to hainei: The Quest for the Social Networking Service Market in China

      By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
      Wang Xing, the founder of Hainei.com, one of the fastest growing social networking service (SNS) providers in China, was preparing to raise funds from venture capitalists. Since late 2003, Wang had established several Internet startups in China. Xiaonei.com, which he... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Internet; China
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      Lassiter, Joseph B., III, Michael Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "From xiaonei to hainei: The Quest for the Social Networking Service Market in China." Harvard Business School Case 808-164, June 2008.
      • June 2008 (Revised February 2011)
      • Case

      Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance

      By: Allen S Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich
      Year Up, a nonprofit job-skills training program for low-income, urban youth has run four successful programs in four cities for the past seven years. Now, after an ambitious capital campaign, the organization is poised to grow into a national program in an attempt to... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Quality; Nonprofit Organizations; United States
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      Grossman, Allen S., and Naomi Greckol-Herlich. "Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance." Harvard Business School Case 308-032, June 2008. (Revised February 2011.)
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      The Future of Social Enterprise

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald

      The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details

      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald. "The Future of Social Enterprise." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-103, June 2008.
      • March 2008 (Revised March 2014)
      • Case

      Facebook

      By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Aaron Smith, David Chen and Brian Feinstein
      As Facebook topped one billion monthly users in October 2012, the online social network continued to face questions about how best to monetize its surging traffic. The company could invest further in new advertising products, which represented the majority of the... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry
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      Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Aaron Smith, David Chen, and Brian Feinstein. "Facebook." Harvard Business School Case 808-128, March 2008. (Revised March 2014.) (More Info.)
      • February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
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      The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
      Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 508-063, February 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
      • 2008
      • Book

      Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

      By: Tarun Khanna
      China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In "Billions of Entrepreneurs," Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces... View Details
      Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; China; India
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      Khanna, Tarun. Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2008.
      • 2008
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      Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value Creation

      By: Arthur C. Brooks
      This text brings together the established pedagogy of entrepreneurship with cutting edge nonprofit and public management tools.
      Measuring social value, earned income, donations and government income, entrepreneurial fundraising and marketing, and social... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management
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      Brooks, Arthur C. Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value Creation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.
      • February 2008 (Revised May 2011)
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      The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear?

      By: Tom Nicholas and Andrew Ferguson
      Explores the reason why Charles Goodyear, inventor of rubber vulcanization, was unable to profit from his discovery despite securing international property rights over his invention through a patent in 1844. Considers the utility of patents as an incentive for... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Commercialization
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      Nicholas, Tom, and Andrew Ferguson. "The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear?" Harvard Business School Case 808-118, February 2008. (Revised May 2011.)
      • January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
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      Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA

      By: Richard Vietor
      Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY--not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Initially proposed six years ago, in 2001, the wind farm would be... View Details
      Keywords: Renewable Energy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Projects; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Community Relations; Public Opinion; Power and Influence; Energy Industry; Massachusetts
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      Vietor, Richard. "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." Harvard Business School Case 708-022, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
      • December 2007 (Revised February 2012)
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      John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life

      By: Howard H. Stevenson, Janet Kraus and Shirley Spence
      The case follows the professional and personal lives of John and Andrea Rice, illustrating the challenge of "juggling" the multiple aspects of life (career, family, community, self) in the pursuit of a personal vision of success. Particular attention is paid to the... View Details
      Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Nonprofit Organizations
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      Stevenson, Howard H., Janet Kraus, and Shirley Spence. "John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life." Harvard Business School Case 808-042, December 2007. (Revised February 2012.)
      • November 2007
      • Article

      Standing Out from the Crowd: The Visibility-Enhancing Effects of IPO-related Signals on Alliance Formation by Entrepreneurial Firms

      By: Tim Pollock and Ranjay Gulati
      In this study, we explore how multiple signals related to entrepreneurial companies at the time of their initial public offering (IPO) influence the firms' ability to acquire non-financial resources over time. Specifically, the study looks at how signals based on... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Alliances; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence
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      Pollock, Tim, and Ranjay Gulati. "Standing Out from the Crowd: The Visibility-Enhancing Effects of IPO-related Signals on Alliance Formation by Entrepreneurial Firms." Strategic Organization 5, no. 4 (November 2007). (A shorter version of this paper appeared in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings, pp. 11-16, 2002.)
      • September 2007 (Revised October 2017)
      • Case

      Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance Pierce
      Identifies the challenges for experienced leaders who transition from their primary income-earning careers to a next phase of public service or social-purpose work, based on interviews and published sources. View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Transition; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Society
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Lance Pierce. "Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life." Harvard Business School Case 308-047, September 2007. (Revised October 2017.)
      • September 2007
      • Case

      Still Leading (B8): Paul Newman—Newman's Own Script

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance P. Pierce
      Well known actor Paul Newman started a business to give profits to charity. Summarizes his experience in making the transition from one kind of leadership to another. View Details
      Keywords: Transition; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Lance P. Pierce. "Still Leading (B8): Paul Newman—Newman's Own Script." Harvard Business School Case 308-045, September 2007.
      • August 2007 (Revised June 2020)
      • Case

      Trouble with a Bubble

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary period of technological progress marked by a strong run-up in stock market prices. Firms invested heavily in... View Details
      Keywords: Bubble; Stock Market; Great Depression; Irving Fisher; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; History; Financial Markets; Performance; Labor and Management Relations; Equity; Financial Crisis; Innovation and Invention; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom. "Trouble with a Bubble." Harvard Business School Case 808-067, August 2007. (Revised June 2020.)
      • August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
      • Background Note

      Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network

      By: William R. Kerr and Daniel J. Isenberg
      Diaspora networks (DNs) are an important resource for global entrepreneurs. Discusses several features of DNs, combining both academic and practitioner perspectives. Describes the history and prevalence of DNs in many ethnicities, documents the broad resources DNs can... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Markets and Industries; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      Kerr, William R., and Daniel J. Isenberg. "Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network." Harvard Business School Background Note 808-029, August 2007. (Revised July 2008.) (Featured in a 2008 Harvard Business Review write-up.)
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

      By: Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna
      This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have... View Details
      Keywords: Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Industry; India
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      Nanda, Ramana, and Tarun Khanna. "Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-003, July 2007. (Revised February 2009.)
      • June 2007 (Revised June 2011)
      • Case

      TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships

      By: William R. Kerr, Daniel J. Isenberg and Ant Bozkaya
      Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning to their home countries to start businesses with global technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict and Resolution; Turkey
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      Kerr, William R., Daniel J. Isenberg, and Ant Bozkaya. "TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 807-175, June 2007. (Revised June 2011.) (This case replaces "Bundling the Contracts: TA-Energy", Harvard Business School Case 807-075, by Kerr and Bozkaya.)
      • 2007
      • Book

      Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

      By: Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard and Howard Stevenson

      "Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector provides an excellent overview of the many tools available to... View Details

      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Society
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      Wei-Skillern, Jane, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector. SAGE Publications, 2007.
      • April 2007 (Revised March 2008)
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      Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
      Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described "medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC,... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; South Africa
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      Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-019, April 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
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