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  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

with matching funds from nonprofit organizations and the government, they are able to prod the listening public into contributing sufficient funds to sustain the public good. “The point is not that coordination is easy, or automatic. But... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2010
  • Case

Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question

By: Toby E. Stuart, G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett and Ann Leamon
Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, must decide the best way to replicate his innovative, award-winning approach to curing poverty. Manchester Bidwell's approach, which provides both adult job-training tuned to fill the needs of local industries and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Training; Competency and Skills; Jobs and Positions; Human Resources
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  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

globally when carrying out such a worthy but ambitious goal. And the whole story points to the personal challenges that face the originator of a cool nonprofit idea when "me-too" for-profit companies seek to compete for the same... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

"A Conference on Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches," with a goal of beginning to identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

other people can also send us their reactions, feedback, and requests. There's direct access everywhere, and that is transforming even for businesses and nonprofit organizations that are never going to sell a single thing on the Web. They... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social pressure fueled by socially... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

World Wildlife Fund US Harvard Business School Case 308-035 World Wildlife Fund US is a leading international conservation nonprofit that operates within a global network of WWF organizations. This case examines WWF US's strategy to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

challenges, few BOP ventures can be expected to reach scale at the pace seen in their mainstream counterparts. Indeed, those BOP ventures that do quickly reach scale often credit some of their success to support from governments, multilateral donors, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

management, specialization of financial intermediation, and marketing methods. The contributors—leaders in business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector—discuss new research and ideas about the future of credit markets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

decisions that would not have made been made on purely financial grounds. It's like P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water program. When P&G could not make a commercial market out of water purification powder, it created a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

1989," he adds. In fact, overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market's biggest problem, says Joseph O'Connor (HBS MBA '70), the founder and president of Singleton Associates, a real estate development firm based in Boston, and former chairman of the Urban Land... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Next Campaign Describes how a former public official became an advocate who started a nonprofit organization after losing her campaign for governor. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/308040 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Harvard Business School Case 318-089 City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact and reach of some of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

  Cases & Course MaterialsAdvanced Energy: Programs for Energy Conservation Harvard Business School Case 508-003 Describes the dilemma facing Advanced Energy (AE), a $6 million nonprofit engaged in energy conservation in North... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2023 (Revised September 2024)
  • Supplement

The END Fund (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
Founded in 2012, the END fund focused on eliminating five Neglected Tropical Diseases that accounted for 80% of the tropical diseases affecting nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its roughly $25 million/year annual budget was fully committed when it got news that the... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Investment Funds; Global Range; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Mission and Purpose
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  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

surrounding growth of a nonprofit institution and the United Kingdom's socialized health care system. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-050 Continental Hope Group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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