Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,658) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,658) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 55 of 1,658 Results →
  • Web

Pat Ross Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • News

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

my own company before being an entrepreneur was a common thing to do,” explains Brierley. Within 10 years, Epsilon was working with more than 400 nonprofit organizations. After leaving the company, Brierley went on to pioneer customer... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

of years out of business school?” Management challenges include turnarounds, transactions, global expansion, reinvention, scaling growth, and career management. Field Course: US Behavioral Insights Professor Max Bazerman, Negotiation, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

example. Many nonprofits and other organizations can't afford to hire data scientists, so DrivenData taps into college students and professionals who are looking to work with real-world data sets. For... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Private capital, public good

US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what... View Details
  • 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
Related
  • 04 Sep 2014
  • News

Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS

He can no longer walk, talk, or swallow, but Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) won’t let that slow down his pursuit of a cure for ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. As founder of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with HBS... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Newman's Own Brand of Charity

With the understated charm that has won him legions of fans on the big screen, Hollywood legend Paul Newman came to HBS in mid-October to talk about his successful second career as a social entrepreneur. During his daylong visit, Newman attended the debut of a new case... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

15 state or local governments had passed programs to pay for about $8 billion in medical relief. Five more are considering moves that would bring the total to almost $13 billion. Many work with a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming

Not long after, in 1989, Bry founded Athena, a nonprofit organization for women technology executives, for which she also served until recently as executive director. Through CONNECT and Athena, Bry came to... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick; Arts, Entertainment
  • 30 Oct 2017
  • News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (B): Kevin Hart and Clubhouse

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Andreessen Horowitz secures an agreement with Clubhouse, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round. One of the factors that insiders saw as pivotal in the race to be Clubhouse’s VC firm of choice was Andreessen... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
Related
  • September 2007
  • Case

Still Leading (B3): Gerry House—Impact of a Different Scale

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance P. Pierce
Describes how Gerry House made the transition from head of a large school district to leader of a small nonprofit. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Teaching; Secondary Education; Leading Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Transformation; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry
Related
  • December 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Worldwide Orphans Foundation

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Susan Saltrick
How does a small non-profit build its organization, funding, & visibility to become sustainable? Traces the history of Worldwide Orphans Foundation from its early days as little more than the dream of its impassioned founder, Dr. Jane Aronson, to a thriving global... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Welfare
Related
  • 26 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

then, the organization has been making a difference for young people in Orange Farm, a poor community south of Johannesburg. The nonprofit awards top-performing students Inspire Belief scholarships at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Carnival Queen

than the Zulu Queen at the Big Easy's celebration of Mardi Gras. The Zulu Queen presides for one year over the Zulu Organization, a New Orleans nonprofit that supports charities throughout the city. Rogers's reign is in honor of her late... View Details
  • March 2018 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Yo-Yo Ma and Silkroad

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Paul A. Gompers and Scott Duke Kominers
Silkroad—a cross-cultural music collaboration that world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma had spearheaded since 1998, was preparing to celebrate its 20th anniversary. In parallel, Ma was stepping back from his role as the organization’s Artistic Director. Silkroad had come of... View Details
Keywords: Managing Diverse Teams; Leadership Transitions; Global Innovation; Music; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Music Entertainment; Leadership; Transition
Related
  • 14 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale

author Veronique Greenwood, both nonprofits and government organizations such as the Department of Energy estimate that “only 5 percent of plastic items disposed in the United States are recycled at all; the... View Details
  • Profile

Kine Seck Mercier

questions. It was a great opportunity to correct misconceptions people might have.” As part of her plan to leverage her HBS education to explore new directions, Kiné is using her summer internship to work with Education Pioneers, a View Details
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • News

Mission Critical

Janice Whaley (GMP 15, 2013) is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of LifeShare of Oklahoma, an affiliate of a national, nonprofit organ procurement organization. In this video, she talks... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance