Publications

December 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Nutrition Science Initiative: Are All Calories Created Equal?

By: Kevin Schulman and Matan Dabora

In 2012, Gary Taubes lunched the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI), a not-for-profit organization aiming to question the mainstream scientific paradigm regarding obesity and dietary recommendations. This case provides a brief scientific background on obesity and its... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Nutrition

Educators

Mar 05 2023
Testimonial

Building New Governance Frameworks in Nigeria

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business School conference.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Luc Sirois

The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate medical and IT... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

Profile

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? To achieve success as a business leader and agent of empowerment, I knew I had to learn valuable new skills. My experiences as a junior banker, young entrepreneur, and novice service organizer, did not provide a... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

05 Jan 2021
Cold Call Podcast

Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

Keywords: Re: Ashley V. Whillans

May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Teaching Note

Greenpeace and WWF (TN)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell

Teaching Note for [708418] and [708417]. View Details

Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations

February 2000 (Revised April 2000)
Case

San Francisco Opera

By: John C. Sawhill and Elizabeth Kind

The San Francisco Opera, second largest in the United States, has embarked on a initiative to attract a larger audience and more support from Silicon Valley. Given that the opera's traditional constituency is the older, wealthier residents of San Francisco, this... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Internet; Fine Arts Industry; San Francisco

Educators

April 2004
Article

Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands

By: John A. Quelch, James E. Austin and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Nonprofit Organizations

2011
Book

Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence

Getting to Giving is based on Stevenson's many years as a donor, fundraiser and entrepreneur. The book offers practical techniques and real life stories, and brings passion and humor to the art and science of asking for money. Topics included in the book... View Details

Keywords: Fund Raising; Fundraising; Non-profit Management; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

March 2007
Class Lecture

Strategy, Leadership, and Performance Management in the Social Enterprise Sector (FSS)

By: Herman B. Leonard

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Leadership; Performance

Dec 13 2017
Testimonial

Leading Transformative Change

Aug 24 2015
Testimonial

Expanding Your Leadership Capacity

Web

Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

One of the primary interfaces between the Social Enterprise Initiative and practitioners is through our open enrollment and custom Executive Education programs offered each year. 1_0fzgdmtm Strategic Perspectives In Nonprofit Management... View Details

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS signals free of charge. Will a key... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

2006
Chapter

Interorganizational Cooperation between Not-for-profit Organizations: A Relational Analysis

By: Julie Battilana and Metin Sengul

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Cooperation; Mathematical Methods