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- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US oil... View Details
- July 2003
- Case
CARE USA
By: John A. Quelch
CARE USA is spearheading a rebranding process for the organization. Examines the process and components of the rebranding strategy and its impact on CARE USA's direct mail strategy. Includes color exhibits. View Details
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "CARE USA." Harvard Business School Case 504-007, July 2003.
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
conflicting demands, rapidly evolving rules, and changing opportunities for finding resources. How can organizations stay focused? Harvard Business School professor Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard discusses today's challenges and his... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
weren’t exactly receptive to the guy from corporate. During job interviews, the organizations told Dyson he was going through a midlife crisis. Also, his corporate background was a negative in the nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- Web
Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting Local and regional HBS alumni clubs offer a range of opportunities to support and connect with the local nonprofit community. Alumni clubs in a number of cities have established pro-bono consulting... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
organizations that seek funding in this arena. The Goodness Web estimates there are currently 10,000 nonprofit organizations that address mental health in the United States,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
focus on the educational side because that’s what’s needed immediately?” she asked. “The crisis emphasizes the necessity of agility.” Within days, the Mayor’s Office redirected their efforts to help schools “financially and operationally.” With $1 million in... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned home from Russia in 1998 with their adopted daughter, Christina, they brought with them a desire to make the process easier for other families. They created Pathways for Little Feet, a View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a piece of a bigger puzzle. We wanted... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
AOL Time Warner Foundation
Focuses on B. Keith Fulton, vice president of the AOL Time Warner Foundation, who is analyzing the results of a new partnership between the foundation and the National Council on Aging. Fulton is considering ways to build upon the partnership's initial success. View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Communications Industry; Public Administration Industry; Publishing Industry
Barrett, Diana, Cassandra Hanley, and Sarah Aaron. "AOL Time Warner Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 303-014, November 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- Web
Encyclopedia of Associations | Baker Library
Encyclopedia of Associations Descriptions of nonprofit membership organizations worldwide. Read More Detailed information, including contact information, of nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
work, she felt frustrated by the bureaucratic pace of progress in conservation: “I just thought that I was very old, and I had to move faster.” In 2019, she founded the nonprofit Save Giraffes Now (SGN), in recognition of the fact that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
sponsoring nonprofit conferences, and organizing events that will raise money for HBS fellowships and scholarships as well as for local charitable organizations. Indeed, the Centennial has reinvigorated many... View Details
- October 2015 (Revised August 2019)
- Background Note
Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times
By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby and Yuanzhuo Wang
The rapid growth in quantity and quality of universities in China since 1978 is the most recent evolution in a long history of higher education. From as early as the Tang Dynasty, academies existed to prepare scholars for the civil service examination, but by the... View Details
Keywords: Non-profit Management; University Administration; University Faculty; University Curriculum; Education Reform; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Higher Education; History; Governance; Education Industry; China
Kirby, William C., Joycelyn W. Eby, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-066, October 2015. (Revised August 2019.)
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
important to distinguish between a program that works and an organization that can scale,” says Bradach. Bridgespan helps successful nonprofits build the strategy and organizational strength to reach their... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
orphanage, Andrew would smile shyly at us, as if asking ‘What about me?’ I don’t know what happened to him, but chances are he didn’t get adopted.” The unfairness of the situation prompted Taylor to action. He and his wife founded Pathways for Little Feet, a View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
process of transforming troubled schools—and the net results. “I founded and now run an organization, a nonprofit called UP Education Network. We are an organization that focuses on turning around the most... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy was founded in 1995 to bring together a variety of efforts to reduce teen pregnancy in the United States. Over the last four years the campaign has recruited a prestigious board, developed effective programs for... View Details
Sawhill, John C., and Susan Harmeling. "National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy." Harvard Business School Case 300-105, February 2000. (Revised March 2000.)