Publications

2014
Book

Creating Value in Nonprofit–Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice

By: James E. Austin and M. May Seitanidi

2019
Article

Reflections on 25 Years of Building Social Enterprise Education

By: James E. Austin and V. Kasturi Rangan

Purpose—This paper aims to reflect on 25 years of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School, examining the processes and thinking involved at key stages of this pioneering Initiative’s implementation and... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise Initiative; Harvard Business School; Social Enterprise; Education; Programs

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June 1990 (Revised February 1991)
Teaching Note

Thai Farmers Bank (A) (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Keywords: Banking Industry

1986
Chapter

Food Marketing Public Enterprises

By: James E. Austin and Michael J. Buckley

Keywords: Food; Marketing; Distribution; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

Article

Should Multinationals Invest in Africa?

By: John A. Quelch and James E. Austin

Keywords: Global Range; Investment; Africa

June 1990
Teaching Note

Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

June 1990
Teaching Note

Dow Indonesia (A) (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

June 1990
Teaching Note

Mexico and the Microcomputers (A) (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Web

Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

pattern of actions guide it. He is attempting to give you that philosophy and pattern of action, and to help you develop your own." George E. McCown (HBS MBA '62), Research Assistant to Georges Doriot, 1962 11 George View Details

2022
Chapter

Responsible Leadership and Transformative Cross-sector Partnering

By: James E. Austin, M. H. Jaén, E. Reficco and A. Vernis

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care—including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger—believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing decisions... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Apr 1999
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

their membership. This year's candidates are: Thomas E. Everhart, AB '53, magna cum laude; MS '55, UCLA; PhD '58, University of Cambridge, England. President Emeritus and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, California... View Details

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

Luxury is the new essential. Consumers know it and retailers are reaping the bounty. At a "Growth Strategies in the Luxury Goods Industry" panel on April 3 at the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference, moderator Nancy F. Koehn summed it up well. Koehn, the... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

relationships, building acommunity that will help us pursue the great mission to educate leaders." HBS Professor and conference co-chair James E. Austin referred to his own personal experience in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

December 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

FIRA: Confronting the Mexican Agricultural Crisis

By: James E. Austin, Michael Chu and Cate Reavis

In fall 2003, Mexico's agriculture sector was facing a crisis brought on largely by a surge in cheap U.S. imports resulting from NAFTA and inaccessible and/or expensive terms of credit for Mexican agricultural producers. It was getting harder for Mexican producers to... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Public Sector; Trade; Financial Instruments; Crisis Management; Markets; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

December 2001 (Revised June 2002)
Case

Monsanto: Technology Cooperation and Small Holder Farmer Projects

By: James E. Austin, Diana Barrett and Stephanie Oestreich

As the leading plant technology company in the global food system, how can Monsanto share this technology with small-sale producers and not-for-profit researchers and institutions? View Details

Keywords: Food; Globalized Markets and Industries; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Technology; Biotechnology Industry

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2002
Chapter

Cross Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

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

Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Public Sector; Private Sector; Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Health Industry

March 2009
Case

Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A)

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Toby E. Stuart and James Weber

A venture capitalist must decide whether to invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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