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  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

  Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor protections limit the scale of multinational firm activity, increase the reliance on FDI flows, and alter the decision to deploy technology through FDI as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

from large groups of people is exactly what nonprofits and political campaigns have been doing for more than a century. In today's world, though, the Internet has dramatically altered the ability for companies and independent... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

Abstract—In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

"A Conference on Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches," with a goal of beginning to identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

308-038 Still Leading (B3): Gerry House—Impact of a Different Scale Describes how Gerry House made the transition from head of a large school district to leader of a small nonprofit. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

co-founder and CEO of the Rise Fund, has partnered with The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investments. Together, they have come up with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

make their mission-driven product a reality. The case explores the co-founders' decision to pursue either a for-profit or nonprofit structure and their strategy for scaling their product, Teach to One.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year, unrestricted grants coupled with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets within nonprofit organizations, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less effective. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

capital commitment. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/residencial-los-andes/an/213074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-043 Endeavor: Miami Heats Up Endeavor Global was a nonprofit that for 15 years had worked to nurture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

events—and what procedures and practices will aid in their ability to do so? Obviously, extreme events—events that are in scope or scale or type beyond the range of our ordinary experience and expectations—by definition will occur only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Amgen, Inc. In 2012, Amylin was acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb for $5.3 billion. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813091-PDF-ENG Rock Health Higgins, Robert F., and Ian McKowan CornellHarvard Business School Case 813-035 Rock Health was a San Francisco-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

before his competition woke up to the opportunity that lay before them all. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509008 Youth Villages Harvard Business School Case 309-007 tTennessee-based View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

passions of far-flung workforces stress openness, inclusion, and making the world a better place. Through this shift in what might be called their guidance systems, the companies have become as creative and nimble as much smaller ones, even while taking on social and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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