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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Ekos. The "story to tell" behind this new line was the preservation of Brazilian natural biodiversity. "Natura intends to help the country take advantage of its biodiversity, thus transforming it into a source of social... View Details
- August 2011 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
CFW Clinics in Kenya: To Profit or Not for Profit
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Ten years after having launched a chain of non-profit health clinics, its founder is now debating the merits of scaling the operation by converting to a for-profit enterprise. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Transformation; For-Profit Firms; Health Industry; Kenya
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "CFW Clinics in Kenya: To Profit or Not for Profit." Harvard Business School Case 512-006, August 2011. (Revised November 2015.)
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
hardships? Professor Nancy F. Koehn discusses lessons for leaders. Key concepts include: As the ship froze into place, Shackleton quickly overcame his own ego to reset the enterprise to focus on survival. Shackleton played to his strong... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
we need to learn to do now is optimize the use of energy and water. Since it's not something we've been focusing on very much, I suspect we'll see enormous progress." That's my sense as well. We need to transform the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- May 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Market by Met Council: Revolutionizing Food Pantries in the Digital Age
By: Elisabeth Paulson and Michael W. Toffel
In fall 2023, the Food Program of Met Council—America’s largest Jewish charity dedicated to fighting poverty—completed the rollout of the newest version of its digital pantry platform to twelve food pantries in the Met Council food pantry network. The digital... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Digital Transformation; Nonprofit Organizations; Service Operations; Human Needs
Paulson, Elisabeth, and Michael W. Toffel. "Market by Met Council: Revolutionizing Food Pantries in the Digital Age." Harvard Business School Case 624-060, May 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
the educational aspects of computing. OLPC has made a difference already because it changed the landscape in terms of dreams and expectations. Observers can see what makes the goal of one laptop per child difficult to achieve. Says Quelch, "When you envision... View Details
- September 2007
- Case
Still Leading (B3): Gerry House—Impact of a Different Scale
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance P. Pierce
Describes how Gerry House made the transition from head of a large school district to leader of a small nonprofit. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Teaching; Secondary Education; Leading Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Transformation; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Lance P. Pierce. "Still Leading (B3): Gerry House—Impact of a Different Scale." Harvard Business School Case 308-038, September 2007.
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
firms, which are most equity dependent, and is larger in industries with higher exposure to misvaluation shocks. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1719204 A Methodology for Operationalizing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
great online giants. “Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow” Still largely unknown in the West, Alibaba dominates China's Internet and logistics space with over 600 million... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
test kits to fund frontier research into cardio diagnostics. More risky than pursuing blockbusters is not to pursue them, to condemn your enterprise to a lifetime of slave labor harvesting the long tail of micro-opportunities rather than... View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
position to do something about it. Money for new enterprises had been restricted, they believed, by the New Deal's onerous tax system, and by the increasing prominence of ultraconservative investment trusts. Investment trusts and life... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
Century. Inventing the infrastructure for the Electronic Century became an epic story because some national industries died while others conquered. By the end of the twentieth century, no European-owned and -operated enterprise had the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
country." [We were then able to cross-check data for blocks which had Jewish institutions versus blocks that did not.] "What is crucial is that we can obtain an estimate of by how much the police presence deters crime." Private View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's ecosystem. This transformation is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
operations of three exemplary global companies (two headquartered in the U.S., one in Latin America). The project looks at how the "giants" are transforming themselves in light of their continuing and increasing global scope,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne