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    Gerald C. Chertavian

    Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

    • September 2023
    • Case

    FoodCloud: Tackling Food Insecurity and Climate Change in One Bite

    By: Brian Trelstad and Emer Moloney
    In 2013, Aoibheann O’Brien and Iseult Ward founded FoodCloud, a non-profit social enterprise that aimed to address food waste and food insecurity issues. Through its technology platform, Foodiverse, FoodCloud connected surplus food from retailers with community groups... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Green Technology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Republic of Ireland; Europe
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    • 15 Nov 2018
    • Book

    Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

    JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • April 2020 (Revised November 2020)
    • Case

    Ping An: Pioneering the New Model of ‘Technology-driven Finance’

    By: Feng Zhu, Anthony K. Woo and Nancy Hua Dai
    In mid-December 2018, Peter Ma, Chairman and CEO of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. was considering whether the company should grow a fifth ecosystem of Smart City Services. Established in 1988, Ping An was one of the top 10 global financial... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ecosystems; Fintech; Finance; Information Technology; Business Model; Expansion; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
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    • January 2016
    • Case

    Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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    • 2019
    • Book

    Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Creativity; Leading Change
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    • 05 Nov 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts

    Keywords: by Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda
    • 12 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12, 2006

      Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations'... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Michael E. Porter

      Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government

        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
        • August 2023 (Revised February 2024)
        • Case

        Toby Norman: Is Passion Enough for Simprints to Thrive?

        By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Amram Migdal and Max Hancock
        As co-founder and CEO of Simprints—a social enterprise with the mission to “transform the way the world fights poverty"—Toby Norman was at a crossroads. His organization had developed ground-breaking technology used to verify aid delivery, reached more than 2.5 million... View Details
        Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Social Enterprise; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy
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        • January–February 2013
        • Article

        Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities

        By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
        We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details
        Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States
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          David Ager

          David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

          • 07 Dec 2017
          • News

          Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

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          By: Frank Nagle
          Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them. His research falls into the broader categories of the futures of work, the economics of IT, and... View Details
          Keywords: Information Technology; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks
          • November 2005
          • Case

          Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)

          By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Laura Winig
          KaBOOM!, a successful playground-building social enterprise funded through corporate partnerships, wants to develop a performance measurement system that will enable the organization to expand its impact substantially. The board of directors and management are trying... View Details
          Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Design; Construction Industry
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          • 05 Jun 2020
          • Blog Post

          Developing Black Talent for Leadership

          urge you to prioritize these organizations and institutions as proven solutions that can help accelerate your path towards anti-racism. Here are three calls to action: 1. Amplify them: If you share appreciation for any talent development... View Details
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          Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

          By: Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna
          This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have... View Details
          Keywords: Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; India
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          • June 2016
          • Case

          Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials

          By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
          Having built Publicis Groupe through acquisitions maintained as separate brands, CEO Maurice Lévy wanted to transform the advertising and marketing firm to an integrated digital-ready enterprise to address industry changes. In early 2016, following a reorganization, he... View Details
          Keywords: Managing Change; Transformations; Digital; Millennials; Change; Innovation; Acquisitions; Merger; Culture; Advertising Agency; Reorganization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Change Management; Restructuring; Management Succession; Marketing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Innovation and Invention; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry
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          • 11 Aug 2022
          • Research & Ideas

          When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

          “Work hard, and you’ll be successful.” How often do we tell children that the key to success is putting forth effort? That advice might seem like admirable inspiration to encourage kids to work hard as they pursue their goals. However, new research in the Journal of... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education