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  • May 2020 (Revised July 2020)
  • Case

MassChallenge

By: Rembrand Koning, Andy Wu, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Tarun Khanna
The case explores the strategic decision of global non-profit startup accelerator MassChallenge on whether to pursue a for-profit spinoff, discussing: (1) the costs and benefits of this decision, (2) how best to manage the risks of the decision, and (3) alternative... View Details
Keywords: Accelerators; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Startups; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Decision Making; Strategy
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  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

management systems for buildings. Tying in a policy perspective, Former US Energy Secretary and MIT Professor emeritus, Dr. Ernest Moniz, presented a perspective of a Green Real Deal that simultaneously must achieve a lower carbon future, while addressing View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech
  • 19 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities

February we leveraged our social media platforms to celebrate just some of the incredible accomplishments and achievements of our students and alumni. Student and Alumni Spotlights Melcolm Ruffin (MBA 2020) Head of Athlete Content... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of philanthropy in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

and the school’s social impact coursework—including an amazing IFC to Denmark and the Netherlands focused on decarbonization. Tell us about your career journey since graduating. Were your roles always related to climate and, if not, how... View Details
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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer View Details
  • 21 Oct 2020
  • News

Cold Calculations

the Arctic ice to slow the effects of climate change. Leslie Field, who holds a PhD in electrical engineering and 58 patents, founded the nonprofit (formerly known as Ice911 Research) to develop the necessary technology. Field approached Payne, a longtime View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Feedback

good feelings and some referrals. For the next few cases, I’m definitely going to implement the [pay-what-you-want] pricing plan: “Because we’re going to be partners in this venture with Social Security, I... View Details
  • August 2001 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

International Trachoma Initiative

By: Diana Barrett, James E. Austin and Sheila McCarthy
In an effort to combat trachoma, a major eye disease, the Clark Foundation entered into a partnership with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. After a successful pilot project, a joint initiative was established (the Trachoma initiative) that has as its goal to eradicate the... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Globalization; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Industry
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  • 2008
  • Chapter

Sustainability through Partnering: Conceptualizing Partnerships between Businesses and NGOs

By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Business Ventures; Non-Governmental Organizations
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  • 13 Jul 2020
  • News

Locally Grown

photo by David Tejada Aravaipa Ventures was inspired by the smell of clean, crisp Colorado air. Founder Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) and his family had moved from France to Boulder in 2007 as he contemplated his next professional move... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Alejandro Maldonado

and growth-stage company CEO’s. He has served on various for-profit, impact investing, and non-profit boards, including Accupac, Blush Bar, Ocean Lane Capital, Ventures Foundation, and Teach for America’s Colombia Chapter.   Alejandro... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Technology Ventures . In past years, he served as Chair of Harvard's MBA Elective Curriculum—the 2nd year of the MBA Program—and as course head of The Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all 900 1st-year MBAs. With colleagues, Eisenmann... View Details
  • October 2022
  • Case

Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Chiu and Joyce Kim
Colette Phillips’ marketing firm had just won the City of Boston’s 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Get Konnected!, the networking organization for people of color that she founded 15 years earlier and led to... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem; Entrepreneur; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
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  • 22 Nov 2011
  • News

A Storybook Beginning

goal of touching a million kids’ lives by 2015” by providing them with e-readers. Risher developed the idea for the venture during a world tour with his family that combined sightseeing with hands-on community improvement activities such... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the Rock Center and the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

‘80), our class used case studies and discussions with leaders from the business, advisory, government, and social enterprise sectors to better understand the nuances of building successful enterprises in Africa.  What separates the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Case Study: Glass Half Full

and CEO, Ranch Road Boots Neutrall is a great idea, currently focused as a D2C venture using Amazon, social media, and other online marketing initiatives to build the business. After the pandemic, however,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Web

Past Issues - Alumni

well-crafted balance of past, present, and future Complete Table of Contents September 2005 WATER Ltd. Making History, Starting Over Sir Ronald Cohen pioneered venture capital investing in Europe. Now he plans to do the same with View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines

boundaries of their particular schools to address society’s most exciting opportunities and challenging issues. In the Harvard Innovation Labs, for example, members of the Harvard community are developing and carrying forward ideas for View Details