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  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

multicultural social interactions in the context of negotiations, work teams, and global leadership. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50440 2015 Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: Innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be the “dirtiest city in America.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 02 Feb 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times

Keywords: by Christine L. Exley, Nils H. Lehr, and Stephen J. Terry
  • Web

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

internship was very structured, provided high-impact work, gave a lot of insight into the federal government, and qualified for the additional funding support from the Social Enterprise Fellows program .... View Details
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

$10,000 Total HBS Funds Re ceived: $60,000 The cumulative amount of post-graduation career exploration funds that a HBS graduate may receive in their lifetime from all HBS and Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. Sources include, but are not limited... View Details
  • 2007
  • Chapter

Beyond Dependence: Conceptualizing Information and Accountability in NGO-Funder Relations

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This paper explores the linkages between information systems and accountability in nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations (NGOs). The information systems in four NGOs are introduced: two Indian NGOs engaged in natural resource management and rural development, an... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Information Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Information Technology; India; District of Columbia
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  • March 2014 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

Teach For China and the Chinese Nonprofit Sector

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell
Teach For China was founded in 2008 with the mission of expanding educational opportunity across China. By 2013, Andrea Pasinetti's lofty dream had taken flight: over 300 graduates from top American and Chinese universities were participating in its 2-year teaching... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit; China; Business And Government Relations; Business And Poverty; Business And Society; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Emerging Market; NGO; Education; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; China
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  • August 2023 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Plug Power (A)

By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
Set immediately after a December 2019 short-seller attack, the case explores Plug Power’s long challenging history. It then focuses on two key issues raised in the short-seller report related to lease accounting and stock warrants that Plug purportedly used to boost... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Management; Social Enterprise; Investment; Stocks; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Europe
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  • Web

After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details
  • 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
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • Web

Leadership - Health Care

faculty, and alumni. Her work supports the life sciences within HBS, while identifying and extending engagement opportunities to mission-aligned enterprises around Harvard and the Boston biotech community. She is passionate about helping... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

can anyone garner from a 40-cent fee that customers pay once a week, if that? "Students first take a look at M-PESA and think, 'This is CSR [corporate social responsibility]! Where's the double bottom-line?" Rangan says. “Why... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

Harvard Life Lab Rock Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (students) New Venture Competition The New Venture Competition is an annual student and alumni competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social View Details
  • Web

The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • News

Harvard Business School Announces 2021 Goldsmith Fellows

  • September 2022
  • Article

Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality

By: Valeria Giacomin and Geoffrey Jones
This article discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States, and has... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Foundations; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Values and Beliefs; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East
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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

Credit:  Martin Barraud Here’s a tip for persuading people to finish more tasks, buy more products, or donate more money: Simply present assignments, requests, or items as arbitrary sets, rather than as individual units. New research reveals that people are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel