Philanthropy - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
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Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan

Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya

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25 Oct 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

requires a deep understanding of business, he joined the dual degree program at HBS, where he is building the Global Health Innovation Fund, a venture philanthropy initiative investing in bold entrepreneurs solving healthcare challenges... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

philanthropy in the creation of high-performing schools, which they have been able to replicate with high degrees of fidelity." Cutting Losses Unfettered by oversight from a local school board, most charters are authorized by state boards... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

October 2010
Article

The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Allen S. Grossman

Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become much smaller presences in the U.S. industrial... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations

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31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element-the corporate foundation-constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

conservation. It currently has two high-tech submersibles rated to 1,000 meters and an elaborate new scientific vessel under construction. OceanX recently partnered with Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Bloomberg Philanthropies on a... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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23 Nov 2020
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We Rise

opportunity—as Kerry Rupp discovered when establishing True Wealth Ventures—to foster diversity among limited partners by bringing in investors who are new to the venture ecosystem, especially women who have traditionally focused on View Details

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

entrepreneurs. There is also an opportunity—as Kerry Rupp discovered when establishing True Wealth Ventures—to foster diversity among limited partners by bringing in investors who are new to the venture ecosystem, especially women who have traditionally focused on... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

Faith Shapes Boardroom Debate Faith as An Enabler and Disabler Linking Spirituality, Health and Leadership Poetic Justice: Islam and Business III. Moving Beyond – Locating Purpose in the World Moral Growth as a Business Leader Spiritual View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

and 2023. Gifts & Endowment Philanthropy remains a vital source of revenue to support the faculty’s ambitious research agenda, advance the School’s strategic priorities, and fund annual operations. In fiscal 2024, revenue from the three... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

philanthropy and art collecting. But his legacy continues, saving millions of computer users from their worst nightmare. « Back Driven to Serve W. James Hindman (9th OPM) created Jiffy Lube - the nation's first quickie auto fluids change... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

and longitudinal data collection. Strengthen Connections—Engage and work with HBCU leaders and faculty. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity The Value of Difficult Conversations Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Past Issues - Alumni

leave our jobs behind and who do we become? After Ozempic How a game-changing drug is reshaping Novo Nordisk, disrupting the pharma industry, and setting up a once-in-a-generation windfall for philanthropy Complete Table of Contents... View Details

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

become the largest philanthropy on climate and energy in Europe-- the European Climate Foundation-- I was happy to trade in my role as a parliamentary representative for a foundation CEO. Morrell: That is, again, another new transition... View Details

September 2018
Teaching Note

City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details

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March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
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City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber

In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details

Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States

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01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

its wealth; what will save us now is technology and innovation,” added Wolfensohn, chairman of Wolfensohn & Company and former president of the World Bank. Creative Capitalist: In his conversation with HBS professor emeritus James Cash, Microsoft’s Bill Gates explained... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

November 2024
Background Note

Social Enterprise in the MENA Region

By: Brian Trelstad and Ahmed Dahawy

This research note provides an overview of the socio-economic landscape of social enterprise in the Middle East and North Africa. It highlights the diversity of players in the region including social enterprise organizations (in their many forms) and supporting... View Details