Filter Results:
(292)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,058)
- People (6)
- News (432)
- Research (292)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (103)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,058)
- People (6)
- News (432)
- Research (292)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (103)
Sort by
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
leaders on the future of regulating food, drugs, medical devices, and dietary supplements. In a period of rapid scientific and market changes the success of regulation in these areas increasingly hinges on communication and collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
themselves from individual liability. Since the Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985, a number of new nonprofit foundations have formed, often around specific technologies, to serve the interests of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
social and environmental entities can shift billions in capital.” Traditionally, philanthropic organizations make donations, not investments. Yet, some 41 percent of large foundations make investments, alongside their traditional grants,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
and nonprofits positively influence corporate philanthropy. Interviewees in one of the cities we studied described how institutions such as the local community foundation and boards of companies and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
months of deliberations with multiple stakeholders in India and the U.S., including individuals from academia, industry, and government. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54716 forthcoming Handbook of Behavioral Economics: View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
considered itself to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me that his firm's business training services were up over 400... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
emeritus professor of business at Harvard Business School and a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Business School in Seattle. McFarlan is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Albert H. Gordon... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
executives to provide on-the-scene examples of how the organization's values are lived on the job is important. This invariably requires a larger-than-normal travel and communication budget, incentives for top management executives to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
is no simple matter to rank the importance of myriad institutions. Minimum conditions of basic education, transportation, and communications must be in place; but the question of institutions remains centered on basic empowerment.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
of the traffic on Internet2 is predicted to be between computer and computer.— Richard L. Nolan Internet2 was launched when a group of academics from various university computer science departments wanted to work together on a network of networks. The National Science... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
country's domestic institutional foundations for sound banking systems as a precondition for full liberalization. Every organized voice of authority within the international financial system has backed away from embracing complete,... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
powerful in communicating what that company stands for—they're not just neutral mechanisms.—Thomas R. Piper In the good times, it seemed as if most of the emphasis was on diagnostic performance measures—which were often incomplete and... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
restaurants, dry cleaners, and local grocery stores—form the backbone of communities across America and they are responsible for about 40 million jobs. And, as Mercedes Delgado and I show in research released earlier this year, small... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
contributions of Sabancı. "Now Turkey has reached a level where there are many more big family foundations, big wealthy families running a lot of schools and dormitories. So we, at the Sabancı Foundation are adding new things to our... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
contingent on value-added communities [built around ideas] are self-defining, just about everything is decentralized ideas compete on an equal footing.” Again, not all of his case examples were drawn from the West Coast. But many of them... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
are trying to accomplish, a vision of their role in accomplishing it, a vision of the activities and operations they will need to make progress on it. It takes strong communication between the CEO and board, and strong View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
of a fire bell in the night—and provide a road map and additional examples for companies to follow. Lagace: Why do you think capitalism is at risk? Bower and Paine: In Chapter 4 we lay out the pre-conditions or foundations for a thriving... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace