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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
amazing amounts of free time. Put a problem in front of them, and they will participate." Lipstein said the combination of "cool data sets" and a social mission has led to strong engagement on his company's challenges. "People are...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
Commodore David Russell, who headed the Royal Navy's rescue mission, and on Robert Moore's (2002) award-winning book A Time to Die: The Kursk Disaster, the paper explores how and why this failure-a multiparty coordination failure-occurred. The Kursk rescue View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
multinationals that move people across locations, expect frequent travel outside the country, and emphasize abundant training and Web-based process tools. Part of the mission of all three companies in Egypt is to transmit these standards...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
Facility should rapidly deploy money in conjunction with the proposed WHO $100 million contingency fund for emergency outbreaks. Why not let the World Bank, with its broadening social mission under president (and former WHO executive) Jim...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
organization’s mission and culture, and great places to work have been shown statistically to produce higher returns than the norm for an industry. Lou Gerstner, in reflecting on his stint as CEO of IBM, said, “Until I came to IBM, I...
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by James L. Heskett
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
ever-growing number intend to fund their social ventures through commercially generated revenue rather than charitable donations—a model known as a "hybrid" organization. "Hybrid organizations have a social mission but generate most of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
realizing intermediate goals or through some kind of overarching mission and vision that helps an organization achieve long-term shareholder value as well. Of course, it assumes that we know what those things (missions, visions,...
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by Jim Heskett
- September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
- Technical Note
Measuring and Managing Social Impact
By: Brian Trelstad, Gerald Chertavian and Susan Pinckney
A brief overview of how to measure social impact at nonprofits, social organizations, and impact investments.
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- July 2024
- Case
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: Bringing Systematic Investment to Philanthropy
By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Alexander Bischoff and Sophia Pan
Melissa Berman, CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), evaluated her client’s philanthropy project and its mediocre performance. RPA was a segment of the Rockefeller Family Office’s Philanthropy Department, becoming an independent charity in 2002. Consistently...
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- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas using a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
what did your panel presenters and speakers identify as main themes in the colloquia's mission to "illuminate and deepen the connections between creativity, entrepreneurship and successful organizations of the future?" The role...
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
explain why they often don't go to work for organizations seeking managers of other people? In an effort to adapt, Khurana observes that nearly every one of the elite schools has adopted missions in which the development of leaders is...
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by Jim Heskett
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector enables readers to attain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. The authors offer tools to develop the knowledge to pursue social entrepreneurship more...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
papers, better teaching materials, mutually beneficial relationships with Asian companies, and more top-notch Asian students in our programs," notes Warren McFarlan. "We're in a much-foreshortened global economy today, where the impact of developments in one...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
performance on real-time dashboards, making monitoring less onerous. “Small-business owners tend to focus on their customers, and on their products and services,” Mills says. “They often don’t have time for the accounting and paperwork. But knowing your cash situation...
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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
Christopher Marquis and John AlmandozHarvard Business School Case 412-060 New Resource Bank was founded in San Francisco in 2006 with a mission focused on environmental sustainability. The case illustrates the opportunities and challenges...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2021 (Revised April 2021)
- Teaching Plan
Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance
By: Brian Trelstad and John Masko
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-008. In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two...
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- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
Minister Johnson has a decision to make. He apparently has delayed it, perhaps waiting for interest to wane. But he did issue a statement saying that: “We want something that fits the mission and captures the spirit of scientific...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
the committee's multiyear pricing process, we determined five pricing principles that every business, whether it has a shared-value mission or not, could profitably adopt. Here are the five principles and how the organizing committee...
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- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
appreciate the social value dimension of the mice's missions or failing to respect their distinctive operating culture can create incompatibility and conflict that will probably cancel the courting or sour the marriage. Don't look first...
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