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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Making a Difference: Leader Evaluation, Selection, and Impact

By: Gautam Mukunda
The relationship between leader selection and impact is important to both researchers and practitioners. This paper introduces Leader Filtration Theory (LFT)—a theory from political science—to managerial audiences, applies it to organizations, and uses it to improve... View Details
Keywords: Leaders; Leader Selection; Individual Impact; Leadership; Selection and Staffing
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  • Research Summary

Impact Investing

In the last decade, inspired by the success of commercial microfinance, the concept of applying the practice of equity investing to the delivery of high social impact interventions has drawn increasing attention in development circles, business academia and... View Details
  • Web

Impact Stories - Impact Stories

Impact Stories Impact Stories Play Improving Health Care in Hospitals Raffaella Sadun Play Alumni Student Mentorship Match Associate Director Tracy Perry Health Care Entrepreneurship Halle Tecco Switching... View Details
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • News

A Conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen on Impact Investing

Keywords: impact investing; social enterprise
  • 2020
  • Blog

LinkedIn Articles: Our Impact on the Environment

By: George Serafeim
Keywords: Environmental Impact; Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Articles
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Impact Investments

Mission Statement The Project on Impact Investments is dedicated to studying the universe of impact investors and portfolio companies that seek to generate social benefits alongside financial returns as well... View Details
  • September 2016
  • Supplement

Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
The (B) case documents the development of a strategy to achieve system-level impact in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape for a nonprofit focused on addressing patients' basic social needs through healthcare institutions. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Social Impact; Scaling Social Enterprise; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Outcomes; Nonprofit Scaling; Nonprofit; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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  • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

By: Mark Kramer, Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and T. Robert Zochowski
ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest source of carbon emissions, remained committed to aggressively expanding its oil & gas business despite global warming. During the COVID pandemic this strategy resulted in massive losses as the price and demand for oil declined. ... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Global Warming; Impact Investment Funds; Hedge Fund Activism; Leadership Development; Business Model; Renewable Energy; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • May 19, 2021
  • Article

Measuring the Impact of #MeToo on Gender Equity in Hollywood

By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang
The #MeToo movement has brought issues of sexual harassment and gender inequities to the forefront around the world. But how much of a tangible impact has it had on the experiences of women in the workplace? In this piece, the authors discuss their research that... View Details
Keywords: #MeToo Movement; Gender Equity; Creative Industries; Impact; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Film Entertainment; Social Issues
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    Impact Entrepreneur Fireside Chat: Teaching Impact Investing at Harvard

    Harvard Business School Professors Vikram Gandhi and Shawn Cole weigh in on teaching Impact Investing at Harvard Business School. The Impact Entrepreneur Luminarias Series is a live video webinar series featuring the leading lights in impact investing and... View Details
    • Article

    Collective Impact

    By: John Kania and Mark Kramer
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    • Clubs

    Social Impact Club

    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • September 2016
    • Case

    Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (A)

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
    Explores strategies to achieve system-level impact for a nonprofit focused on addressing patients' basic social needs through healthcare institutions. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling Social Impact; Nonprofit; Healthcare; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Reform; Health Care Delivery; Scaling Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Health; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds

    By: Shawn A. Cole, T. Robert Zochowski, Fanele Mashwama and Heather McPherson
    This note describes results from a survey of “anchor investors” in impact funds. Anchor investors are described as “generally the first investor to make a substantial capital commitment to a fund,” (according to the Global Impact Investing Network, “GIIN”) and their... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investment Funds; Anchor Investors; Investment; Surveys; Analysis
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    Impact Investing Club

    • June 2016 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    Boys & Girls Clubs of America: Driving Impact

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa C. Cox
    With $1.8 billion in 2015 revenues, Boys & Girls Club of America had evolved over its 155-year-old history to occupy the lead position in the Youth Development space in the United States. Its new CEO Jim Clark had initiated yet another change process in 2015 to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Strategy; Planning Process; Transformative Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Growth Management
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    • April 2013
    • Article

    Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending

    By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant and Michael I. Norton
    When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the emotional benefits of spending money on others (prosocial spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real... View Details
    Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Prosocial Impact; Subjective Well Being; Donations; Happiness; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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    Investing for Impact

    By: Archie L. Jones

    The Field Course: Investing for Impact was born out of the efforts of HBS students and faculty in the spring of 2020 and offered for the first time in fall semester of 2021.

    This course seeks to help students understand why certain... View Details

    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    Environmental Impact

    are making a lasting difference in the areas important to them through their support for HBS. “We care deeply about these subjects and wanted to contribute to efforts that will have a broad impact on the world,” says McCaw. “Given HBS’s... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2024
    • News

    Far-Reaching Impact

    knew its impact could extend far beyond her own situation. It meant she could devote herself to Rocket Learning, the nonprofit she had launched in 2020 with her brother, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019), which leverages digital technology to... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie