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  • August 2021
  • Case

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 09 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

can be profitable while doing good, suggests new research from Benjamin N. Roth, a Harvard Business School assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “This idea that you're increasing your impact by leveraging capital, that making investments rather... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

curing societal ills. In reality, though, the line between the two is growing blurrier. "In the not-for-profit sector, a number of organizations are trying to be less dependent on donations and grants," says... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

knew were coming to us wanting to know how they could offer support, where they should donate, and how to make an impact, and we were wondering that ourselves,” said Kenneth. “To provide one answer, we decided to start a GoFundMe page that would distribute funds to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

between two or more organizations to increase their sense of agency. “Saying our organization is going to donate X dollars for every person in it, is likely not going to feel... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • July 2020
  • Case

Super 30: Educating the Elite Poor

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In the summer of 2019 in New Delhi, S K Shahi and his daughter, Meenakshi, faced a difficult problem. India had 19 centers of their non-profit, the Center for Social Responsibility and Leadership. Also called the 'Super 30' program, this offered free training for... View Details
Keywords: Non-profit; Inclusive Growth; Education; Higher Education; Diversity; Nonprofit Organizations; Operations; Expansion; Geographic Location; Strategy; Decision Making; India
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  • May 2025
  • Case

IQanat: Empowering Rural Youth in Kazakhstan

By: Boris Groysberg and Maxim Pike Harrell
In June 2025, IQanat CEO Aliya Salikova considered scaling opportunities for the foundation, which provided educational opportunities for children from rural regions of Kazakhstan. Established by Kazakhstani businessman and philanthropist Aidyn Rakhimbayev, IQanat... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Rural Scope; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Equality and Inequality; Education Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan
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  • 2017
  • Chapter

Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
A long-standing question in business ethics is whether business enterprises are themselves moral agents with distinct moral responsibilities. To date, the debate about corporate moral agency has focused on responsibility for past wrongdoing that involves violating... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Mission and Purpose
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  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

The HBS Summer Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, with many View Details
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

organizations to move forward.” Gibson cowrote the case with Nicole Gilmore, director of talent development at MITRE; and Alicia Dadlani, director of the Mid-US Research Center at HBS. Sanders plays in Super Bowl and World Series Even... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

what you immediately saw for yourself, please share your own story. If you share appreciation for any talent development organization because of someone you've hired, worked with, or learned from that is an alum, View Details
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

designed to boost responsibility, yet corporate misconduct has persisted—and in many ways worsened, often to the tune of billions of dollars in losses. Perhaps that’s because organizations are still failing to recognize that misconduct is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

FAQs - Alumni

reduction will be incorporated for Reunions? Donate leftover food through Food for Free , an organization that will match our donations to groups in need. Serve food on... View Details
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Supply Chains By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Social movement pressures can lead organizations to concede and improve social performance to avoid disruption costs, but we theorize that such responses evoke concession... View Details
  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award Organization Development & Change Division, Academy of Management By: Michael Tushman More... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

for cadavers in medical training, in medical research, and for the development of new medical devices. Given the sometimes uneasy feelings around the topic, it's easy to understand how such entrepreneurial organizations (both for-profit... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

students engaging in this critical work. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 161 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, with many organizations and projects focused on racial equity and justice. The Social Enterprise Initiative connected... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2022
  • HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

products such as baby formula. At the same time, the company declared it would donate all profits to humanitarian relief organizations, and would therefore not pay any corporate taxes to the Russian government, although it would continue... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson