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- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in space is the fundamental transformation of how it’s being organized. For a long time, when most people thought about what we do in space as humans, they thought of it as primarily a government-led activity. They thought of the James... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
PublicationsRenewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:Istanbul: Is Bankasi Kultur Yayinlari, 2010, Turkish ed. Abstract Unilever's brands can now be found in one out of every two households in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey By: Coplan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
attract more customers, or should they enroll landlords in Alfred and reach consumers in that way? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316154-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-063 Royal DSM: From Continuous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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.)
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
while substantially improving overall organizational performance. Social entrepreneurs stay relentlessly focused on their missions and seek to continually innovate. This challenge cannot be overcome through incremental change in existing activities. Instead, it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
easily in response to massive shifts in the technological environment. In essence, this means that they can much more easily "plug in" to a different way of doing business. Examples are provided by NVIDIA easily cutting across generations of semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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.)
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
School Case 317-008 Code.org The case explores Hadi Partovi’s mission to provide every K-12 student in the United States the opportunity to learn computer science. Students can assess how Partovi transformed his passion into an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
the effectiveness, commitment, and performance of their organizations over the years. We have realized that the leader can be a limiting factor in a journey to transform an organization into a high commitment, high performance (HCHP)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
number of Americans eligible for cancer prevention and treatment. The new strategy brings with it considerable political risk. Leveraging an organization with three million volunteers, this case describes how he skillfully transforms the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
the challenges of transforming American community hospital systems. Can be used to teach: the evolution of structure, organization, and strategy of U.S.-based community hospital systems; integrated practice units and care cycles;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic interests and introduced dual pressures for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
2017 Emerald Group Publishing Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne