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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
Reserve Bank of India Archives (RBI) The Reserve Bank of India maintains a database on the Indian economy, including statics and time-series publications. Resources span the real sector, corporate sector, and financial sector, as public... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate social responsibility.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- July 2003
- Case
De La Salle Academy
By: Thomas J. DeLong and David Ager
Brother Brian Carty, headmaster and founder of De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York City, is scheduled to meet with the school's board of directors to discuss how the... View Details
Keywords: Middle School Education; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Design; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and David Ager. "De La Salle Academy." Harvard Business School Case 404-024, July 2003.
- 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
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Beyond Dependence: Conceptualizing Information and Accountability in NGO-Funder Relations." In Reconceptualising NGOs and Their Roles in Development: NGOs, Civil Society and the International Aid System, edited by Paul Opoku-Mensah, David Lewis, and Terje Tvedt, pp. 119–159. Aalborg, Denmark: Aalborg University Press, 2007.
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good business sense. I get excited by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 310-011, September 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- March 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [509042]. View Details
- November 2008 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2
By: Allen S. Grossman, Naomi Greckol-Herlich and Cathy Ross
The Bridgespan Group was launched in 2000 by management consulting group Bain & Company as a nonprofit focused on strategy consulting for nonprofits and philanthropists. Over the next eight years, Bridgespan expanded its services to include executive search, knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Consulting Industry
Grossman, Allen S., Naomi Greckol-Herlich, and Cathy Ross. "The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2." Harvard Business School Case 309-020, November 2008. (Revised April 2010.)
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
help with these problems. Somehow this bridge has to be built,” says Goodwin, who until earlier this month was CEO of Executives Without Borders (ExecWB), a sort of facilitator for corporate social responsibility. (Goodwin just announced... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Partner U.S. Venture Partners Bowes Jr. After founding U.S. Venture Partners in San Francisco in 1981, Bill Bowes helped shape companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, Applied Biosystems, and Ross Stores. More recently, he has focused on venture View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
(MBA 1997) Founder and CEO, Central Square Foundation, New Delhi, India A UNIFIED FRONT "Businesses tend to support individual programs or schools. The impact could be much larger if corporations partnered to take collective action on a... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element-the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- Web
Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
rigorous research into relevant reading for practicing mangers. Today the print magazine is supplemented by HBR.org, which averages nearly 7 million monthly visitors. The Publishing group also comprises Corporate Learning and Higher... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
managers to unlearn their racial and gender bias; and later receiving a full-time impact investing offer from another fund. The Strategic Philanthropy Bridge Mbanusi knew that it wouldn’t be enough to make connections into venture... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Vocational and academic education programs in US correctional institutions have been around for more than a century. They have also achieved some success. In fact, a 2013 study by the Rand Corporation found that prison education helped... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
one generation. So right off the bat you need scale and permanence. Both private and public philanthropy, when they work well, play a key role in fostering the birth of new concepts and ideas. But neither philanthropy nor development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
“Each corporate partner donates a certain number of pro bono hours to Endeavor a year, and our offices allocate them to the entrepreneurs,” says Ko, who worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before heading to HBS in 2003. “It’s a win-win... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
of corporate purpose, and for good reason. Too many companies deploy purpose as a promotional vehicle to make themselves feel virtuous and to look good to the outside world. Some have only foggy ideas about what purpose is and conflate it... View Details