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How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge
coffee shops operate on tight margins, and Lucky Ones Coffee is no different, Ruback says. The business initially showed net profits in 2019 and 2020, but suffered losses following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and 2022. The two entrepreneurs have formed a View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Presented with thirteen job offers in 1978, Ann S. Moore accepted the one in the industry she knew she wanted to be in — magazine publishing. It also happened to be the one offering the lowest salary. “People were astounded with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
unexpectedly in the midst of chaos brought by the resistance of its staff who feared losing their civil servant status after privatization. Also facing Mao was the forthcoming deregulation of the telecommunication industry on the island... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/06/change-for-changes-sake/ar/1 Working PapersLimits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
enough time for my family." Benton has also been active in a number of nonprofit ventures throughout her career. "I love the feeling that I'm giving something back," she notes. "The 'results' from our class to date, not just financially... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 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
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things
By: Frank Nagle
Teaching Note for HBS Case 722-414. View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
while open-spirited, curiosity-driven, person-to-person connections lead to discovery, growth, and often amazing results. Through personal stories, innovative suggestions, and inspiring examples, they show nonprofit leaders how to build a... View Details
- 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
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
change in a nation with a relatively constant patent policy, Great Britain. Getting Known by the Company You Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Former Associations of Skilled Employees Authors: Peter Roberts and Mukti Khaire Publication: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
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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
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
including suggestions for future research. The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed.,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
India By examining Ekal Vidyalaya (Ekal), a nonprofit network of schools in India, this case focuses on the classic challenge faced by organizations that grow through replication (e.g., McDonald's, Starbucks, Walmart, Whole Foods): How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 1998
- Case
CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)
By: Myra M. Hart and Jennifer Starr
Silverman and her co-founder, Don Larson, own the largest privately held injury-management and cost-containment services firm in the United States. When their $80+ million company attracts substantial interest of investment bankers and venture capitalists, the two must... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Leadership Development; Venture Capital; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment; Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; United States
Hart, Myra M., and Jennifer Starr. "CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 899-068, October 1998.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
was probably a pretty likable guy and much like his characters — funny, tenacious, and creative. And that’s the way he really is.” Hood is now completing her third year as CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the View Details