Publications

2009
Working Paper

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship

Read Now

March 2007
Teaching Note

Organics: Coming Center Stage? (TN)

By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin

Keywords: Food

May 2006
Teaching Note

Forest Stewardship Council (TN)

By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco

Keywords: Forestry Industry

May 2004
Teaching Note

Monsanto: Technology Cooperation and Small Holder Farmer Projects (TN)

By: James E. Austin and Diana Barrett

Teaching Note to (9-302-068). View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology Industry

October 1996
Case

Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (C)

By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Health Industry

Educators

March 1996 (Revised November 1996)
Case

Supermarkets in Inner Cities

By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias

Excerpts from five articles that present the challenges and opportunities inherent in opening and operating supermarkets in inner-city neighborhoods. View Details

Keywords: Urban Scope; Market Entry and Exit; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Problems and Challenges; Development Economics; Business and Community Relations; Business Ventures; Strategic Planning; Cooperation

1987
Book

Food Policy in Mexico: The Search for Self Sufficiency

By: James E. Austin and Gustavo Esteva

Keywords: Food; Policy; Mexico

1979
Book

Nutrition Intervention in the United States: Cases and Concepts

By: James E. Austin and Christopher Hitt

Keywords: Nutrition; Programs; Cases; United States

2006
Chapter

Social Entrepreneurship: It's for Corporations, Too

By: Dutch Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, Jane Wei-Skillern and James E. Austin

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

20 Dec 2016
First Look

years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2002
Case

KaBOOM!

By: James E. Austin and Jose Miguel Porraz

KaBOOM! is a nonprofit organization developing playgrounds in partnership with corporations and communities. It has grown since 1995 to a national organization that has built 338 playgrounds in partnerships with over 40 companies. This case deals with the nature of... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development

Educators

September 2002
Case

Pura Vida Coffee

By: James E. Austin and Allen S. Grossman

Tells the story of two HBS graduates who sell gourmet coffee over the Internet to support an outreach ministry in Costa Rica. View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Internet and the Web; Food and Beverage Industry; Costa Rica

Educators

June 1979
Article

Reformulating U.S. Food Aid Policy for Development

By: James E. Austin and Mitchel B. Wallerstein

Keywords: Food; Policy; Growth and Development; United States

May–June 1986
Article

Managing After the Revolutionaries Have Won

By: James E. Austin and John C. Ickis

Keywords: Management; Change

1976
Chapter

Cereal Fortification: Barriers to Implementation

By: James E. Austin and Donald S. Snodgrass

Keywords: Food; Food and Beverage Industry

June 1990
Teaching Note

Ashamu Holdings Ltd. (B) (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Mining Industry; Nigeria

June 1990
Teaching Note

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Keywords: Demographics; Social Marketing; Bangladesh

July 1998 (Revised August 1998)
Case

Community Wealth Ventures, Inc.

By: James E. Austin and Meredith D. Pearson

Share Our Strength, a successful anti-hunger nonprofit organization, created a for-profit subsidiary--Community Wealth Ventures (CWV)--to provide advisory services to companies and nonprofits on collaboration. Management is reviewing CWV's start-up experience. View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; For-Profit Firms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Consulting Industry