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Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The New Role for Government & View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
in emerging markets. Hazel's role prior to HBS was Principal Sales at BHP. Tatiana Theoto (MBA 2024, Section I), Summer Internship: Advisor to the CEO, Infineat and Dengo Infineat is a fast-growing NGO based focused on tackling food waste... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
variety of practitioners makes it difficult for civilians to know where to turn. And the cluster of nonprofits and NGOs offering services that have sprung up since the 2014 invasion are not able to coordinate in an effective way. What’s... View Details
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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Michael Porter spoke at the hearing,... 14 Jun 2013 Presentation Why Business Can Be Good at Solving Social Problems Why Business Can Be Good at Solving Social Problems by Michael E. Porter Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and... View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Linos, Laura Jakli & Melissa Carlson 2021 | American Political Science Review 115, no. 1 As government welfare programming contracts and NGOs increasingly assume core aid functions, they must address a long-standing challenge—that people... View Details
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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The New Role for Government & View Details
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Collection Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti by Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. What if my role is not based in Africa, but my work focuses on Africa? (e.g. NGO in the US or UK or private equity firm investing in Africa) The GO: AFRICA Fellowship is only available... View Details
- January 2016
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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
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016.
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
their shareholder votes. Meanwhile, several NGOs have built certifications and other monitoring and assessment tools to understand how companies are progressing against their targets. This panel will explore the different mechanisms and... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
expertise, and then gathering them in the quest for a common goal—the way Torsten Thiele, a European banker, helped get insurance companies together with NGOs to look at projects to improve the health of the oceans, which would certainly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
workers do which activities? What is a living wage, and how does that vary by country and by urban or rural setting? These are questions for which we just don't have good answers yet. So it is not surprising that firms might disagree with each other, and with the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
energizing relationships with farmers and changemakers that deepened my commitment to create impact in this space. Benjamin: Throughout my summer venture, extensive dialogues with NGOs and migrants across Europe confirmed my hypothesis: a... View Details
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Prineeta Kulkarni
difference in real lives beyond publishing papers in journals." In the midst of her degree program, she volunteered with an NGO in Cote d'Ivoire that promoted HIV/AIDs awareness. "It showed me how much of a difference medicines... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Ebrahim cites his research on two NGOs in western India: the Sadguru Water and Development Foundation and the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme. These nonprofits work in hundreds, if not thousands, of rural communities on issues relating... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
crisis? Consumers expect quite a bit from their brand partners during a crisis, seeing them as critical partners to governments, non-profit relief organizations, and NGOs because of the powerful platform a strong brand delivers for... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 07 Jan 2002
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How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
among, say, governments? Rangan: Not as much as we would like. What I'm finding is that the people in government and NGOs are a little lukewarm to the idea because it has business intonations to it. If we went out there and said,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
School; Tiona Zuzul, assistant professor at London Business School; and HBS Professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna—came to their conclusions after reviewing the transcripts of interviews with 69 business and NGO leaders from a variety... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)
Tell us about your life before HBS. As a first-generation Latina who was raised by a single mom, I’ve always felt a deep urgency to advocate for those whose voices have historically been marginalized. To that end, after college I worked with a Brazilian View Details