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  • 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 06 Feb 2019
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HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: February 6, 2019 - February 27, 2019 View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 26 Jun 2019
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HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: June 26, 2019 - July 17, 2019 View Details
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

but in many cases they won't. If you are looking for a social and not an economic return, then loyalty to the program rather than an exit strategy may be a better use of funds. The venture philanthropy... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • February 2022
  • Case

Launching the Social

By: Tom Eisenmann, Lindsay N. Hyde and Tom Quinn
This case features the same protagonists as Ample Hills Creamery (HBS No. 822-073), and can be used as a continuation of that story.
Ample Hills Creamery started in 2010 as a temporary ice cream pushcart in Brooklyn, New York City. On the strength of inventive... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Small Business; Brands and Branding; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion
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Eisenmann, Tom, Lindsay N. Hyde, and Tom Quinn. "Launching the Social." Harvard Business School Case 822-074, February 2022.
  • March 2023
  • Case

Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission

By: Ethan Rouen, Dennis Campbell and Andrew Robinson
Pete Stavros was on a high after his latest experiment with employee ownership. As the head of industrial investments for KKR, Stavros orchestrated the sale of CHI Overhead Doors, which turned into KKR’s best investment in more than two decades and created $360 million... View Details
Keywords: Employee Ownership; Knowledge Sharing; Nonprofit Organizations
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Rouen, Ethan, Dennis Campbell, and Andrew Robinson. "Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission." Harvard Business School Case 123-079, March 2023.
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

of social entrepreneurship require not only the creative combination and adaptation of social and commercial approaches, but also the development of new conceptual frameworks and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

major social problem, the harder it becomes to measure your impact because it is tougher to isolate cause and effect. It's no longer a simple linear relationship, but a complex set of relationships." A nonprofit's operational View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • January 2009 (Revised May 2011)
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China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy

By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, G.A. Donovan and Tracy Manty
China Mobile was the world's leading mobile communications service provider with over 400 million customers. In some cities, its penetration rate was over 100%. With such huge successes, Chairman Wang Jianzhou was exploring ways to expand its customer base. Nearly... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Investment; Rural Scope; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China
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Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, G.A. Donovan, and Tracy Manty. "China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 309-034, January 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
  • July 1994
  • Background Note

Retail Expansion Strategies

By: David E. Bell
Describes issues that should be considered by a retailer who is thinking of expanding the number of stores from one or two to many. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Cognition and Thinking; Expansion; Retail Industry
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Bell, David E. "Retail Expansion Strategies." Harvard Business School Background Note 595-005, July 1994.
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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

helps leading universities and nonprofits develop a strategic focus and deliver more value to the people and communities they serve. Strategy for Non-Profits The Museum Value Chain Choosing how to perform and integrate these activities... View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 04 Sep 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: September 4, 2019 - September 25, 2019 View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 17 Apr 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: April 17, 2019 - May 8, 2019 View Details
  • 12 May 2015
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Shared Value and Strategy (Video)

By: Michael E. Porter
Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter presents at the Shared Value Leadership Summit on how creating both business and social value makes a company stand out against the competition. View Details
Keywords: Society; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; United States
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Porter, Michael E. "Shared Value and Strategy (Video)." Shared Value Leadership Summit, FSG, New York, NY, May 12, 2015.
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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations

By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
Using a large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 16 years, we investigate the impact of corporate socially responsible (CSR) strategies on security analysts' recommendations. Socially responsible firms received more favorable recommendations in recent years... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Value Creation; Public Equity; Markets; Investment; Perception; United States
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Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2010).
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • News

Melinda Gates Comments on the Future of Social Enterprise

  • April 1992 (Revised July 1993)
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Conoco's: "Green" Oil Strategy (A)

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Conoco faces challenges in formulating a proactive environmental strategy for its proposed oil development in Ecuador's pristine tropical rain forest region. The case outlines the innovative process in which Conoco collaborated with a wide range of often conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict Management; Ecuador
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Salter, Malcolm S., and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. Conoco's: "Green" Oil Strategy (A). Harvard Business School Case 392-133, April 1992. (Revised July 1993.)
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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Business for Social Impact Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Social Entrepreneurship More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2011
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Mutual Benefit: Investing in the Social

  • 04 Dec 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat
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