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  • September 1985 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Bangladesh
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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The... View Details
  • 2001
  • Book

From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
This is a pathbreaking account of how the environmental movement has led to profound changes in the perceptions and practices of large-scale corporations, as shown here in the chemical and petroleum industries. The book traces how market, social, and political... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Public Opinion; Social Issues
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  • September 2016
  • Case

Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic resources like heating assistance, job training, and childcare... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Social Enterprise; Scaling Social Impact; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Reform; Nonprofit; Nonprofit Scaling; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Private and Public Disclosures in Countries with Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect

By: Aaron Yoon
I study firms’ use of disclosure to build investor confidence when they operate in a market where the institutions that support the supply of credible information are weak. Using the announcement of a regulation that allowed foreigners to invest in select Shanghai... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Reputation; Institutional Investing; Trust
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Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

national economy. Trying to cure the inner city’s problems solely by increasing social investment has rarely been successful. But when we approach revitalization from a competitiveness perspective, we begin to see the existing and... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

barriers to capital, with the dual goals of making profits and creating social change. Entrepreneurs of color in Massachusetts have an unmet capital demand in the order of $574 million annually, according to The Boston Foundation and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

academics, and business leaders, including former Goldman Sachs cochairman and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), the driving force behind the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS.... View Details
  • Web

Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

teams and services that all manage aspects of breast cancer over the full cycle of care. This would be surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, reconstructive surgeons, pathologists, and radiologists. Specialized nurses, pharmacists, View Details
  • 25 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Ian I. Larkin; Education
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • News

A Smart(Phone) Approach to Diabetes Testing

Keywords: mobile technology; mobile healthcare; India; diabetes; social enterprise; entrepreneurship; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan... View Details
  • Web

Turning a Moment Into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to do Their Part | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

  • Spring 2014
  • Article

What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Organizations with social missions, such as nonprofits and social enterprises, are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Performance Evaluation
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  • 03 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

Keywords: by Matthew Lee & Julie Battilana
  • July 2021
  • Article

Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences

By: Eric Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne and L. Taylor Phillips
The current research explores how local racial diversity affects Whites’ efforts to structure their local communities to avoid incidental intergroup contact. In two experimental studies (N=509; Studies 1a-b), we consider Whites’ choices to structure a fictional,... View Details
Keywords: Segregration; Structural/institutional Racism; Organizational Exclusion; Diversity; Race; Organizations; Local Range; Prejudice and Bias
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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rigorously track the interdependency between social and business results, they miss important opportunities for innovation, growth, and sustainable social impact at scale. An approach to shared value... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education

like lack of political will to drive change. Yet amid these formidable barriers, a set of passionate social entrepreneurs are disrupting the status quo in education with innovative and effective approaches that are producing measurable... View Details
Keywords: Education
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change - Course Catalog

insights, frameworks and tools needed. Graduates will be well-positioned for roles that demand a deep understanding of leading and scaling social enterprises and designing and implementing solutions that... View Details
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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

(e.g., consumers) as well as to institutions (e.g., colleges, schools). The course will evaluate emerging ideas and ventures and get a chance to ponder the question of how social entrepreneurs can do well... View Details