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09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

policies, and identity politics. In San Jose, many women were elected to political positions. As state governments cut funding for schools, they turned to Silicon Valley firms for philanthropy, unintentionally handing control of public... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

25 May 2011
News

Singapore Star

engineering at Cambridge University, he set his sights on Harvard for postgraduate education. The Singapore government, for its part, thought that was a good move too, but felt that Yeo could best serve his country by earning a Master of... View Details

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href="https://candid.org/research-and-verify-nonprofits/990-finder" target="_blank">990 Finder for nonprofit information in IRS filings. Foundation Directory: Directory of over 10,000 public and private foundations. View Details

27 Jul 2016
News

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Margaret Crotty (MBA 2000) is CEO of Partnership with Children, which provides counseling services and family support to public schools in New York City. In this interview, she reflects on the influences that put her on this path. “Two of... View Details

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

sights on a mission to Mars and innovative technologies for deep space exploration. CCDev offers a clear example of how the public and private sectors can work together to pursue commercial goals and public... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

Profile

Elsa Sze

“But I also see that the business community has so much potential to do good while achieving business objectives.” With a will to reconcile business and government, and profit motives with social ones, Elsa is pursuing the joint MBA/MPP... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs.... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

10 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos

indications incorrectly, that Dao had been violent. United suffered in the court of public opinion—and in litigation too, as Dao’s attorney extracted what was by all indications a sizable settlement. A customer with a camera can be a... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Food & Beverage; Air Transportation; Retail; Service

01 Oct 1998
News

A Marketable Skill

doing," says Judy Gehrke, executive director of Greenflea, Inc., the operator of two flea markets just north of midtown Manhattan, whose proceeds help support the city's public school system. Every week, Gehrke, a level-headed Baker... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2000
News

The Right Connections

that it has a good product and that it can bring favorable returns to investors," she says. "But that's just part of the package. It must also assemble a management team that brings a combination of influential and complementary... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

A Good Place to Start Driving Digital StrategySunil Gupta explores how traditional businesses can make the leap into the digital age. American Capitalism: New HistoriesHistorians are taking a new look at capitalism in light of its... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

According to Herzlinger, although public and nonprofit institutions are entrusted with taxpayer and donor dollars to provide social goods such as education, health, and art, they have few systems and tools... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

reviews throughout the years indicated that overall product quality remained consistent post-merger. "Though goods become more similar, they do not consistently increase or decrease in quality level," Sheen writes in the paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

among graduates aiming for both success in business and beneficial impact on the world around them. They have come to believe that one can either succeed in business or enhance society—by expanding economic opportunity or by improving View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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Caitlin Reimers Brumme Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has gaping loopholes. Some of the arrangements behind the Indonesian projects seem not to have violated the law, but they didn't smell good in the light of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

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Caroline Fay Archives | Social Enterprise