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- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made a web platform through which Harvard and MIT, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of very poor rural and urban women in India. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
being able to take that non-paying founding job or that low-paying social enterprise and non-profit job, and you find that there’s all sorts of handcuffs of life that are preventing you from being able to go and do it. You’ve taken on a... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
Administration Oral History Project Audio oral histories with alumnae of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration discussing business, family, and personal histories. Interviewees reflect on experiences in corporate, entrepreneurial, and View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
these businesses helps to explain why in more recent decades private waste companies have been associated with late entry into recycling, often trailing municipal governments and non-profit entities. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
celebrated its 10th anniversary as a center of the Milken Institute, Executive Director Margaret Anderson thought about what the organization should do to ensure it had even more impact in its next 10 years. FasterCures was a non-profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
constituent (and ultimately a customer) to include only those who transact with the firm through markets. As a result, this analysis considers only organizations whose customers have choices. I include business firms, non-profit... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
trading, which will be presented soon to the Fund's board of directors. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311022-PDF-ENG Public Architecture Lakshmi Ramarajan, Christopher Marquis, and Bobbi ThomasonHarvard Business School Case 411-030 Public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
users can access and improve the source code. At the same time, however, opening a module sets up an open source (free) competitor. This hampers the firm's ability to capture value. We analyze three competitive situations: monopoly, commercial firm vs. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
encourage excessive risk. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110005-PDF-ENG From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys Harvard Business School Case 910-402 This case focuses on the growth of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
has been published in multiple top academic journals. Dr. Livingston has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies and non-profits such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty,... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
services. Diagnostic-for-All (DFA) Jon Puz, MBA 2008 Gilbert Tang, MBA 2008 Krishna Yeshwant, MBA 2009 Diagnostic-For-All (DFA) is a non-profit enterprise that seeks to deliver affordable point-of-care diagnostic solutions to the global... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
nation's social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy for years, and experts... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
the right leadership team. Addressing conflicting organizational culture issues and retaining key talent. Module 2: Turnarounds in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations Turnarounds represent a high-risk execution challenge for leaders.... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Supplement 913-416 From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys (B) This case focuses on the growth of an innovative View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312038-PDF-ENG Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to ROAR? Noam Wasserman and Julia TaylorHarvard Business School Case 812-024 Earl Martin Phalen is in the midst of starting his second nonprofit organization, Summer Advantage, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with the escalating content demands from the marketplace and the non-profit OLPC Foundation. It also had to fit the project into its company business model which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Institute, Harvard Business School, and the Joffrey Ballet, among other firms and cultural institutions, he demonstrates how to reach greater heights of performance, achievement, and contentment. RISK is a fascinating look at financial industry management, View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
remember doing a case about Men's Wearhouse. And we talked about that many of the employees at Men's Wearhouse had a greater sense of purpose than people doing social justice or non-profit work like the work that I'm leading now. I was... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
2007 as the first non-profit art center in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) had been operating with the mission to "promote the continued development of the Chinese art scene, foster international exchange, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne