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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Policy for Social Mobility Scott Duke Kominers, Jeff Huizinga, and Allison M. Ciechanover “Opportunity Insights—a non-profit that researches drivers of economic opportunity and develops policy solutions to help families achieve better... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
share $150,000 and the opportunity to present their ideas at the Forum's invitation-only conference in April 2015, which attracts senior executives from big pharma, for-profit and non-profit hospitals, major insurance companies, and... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-027 Fundraising at St. Camillus Hospital St. Camillus is a fictional non-profit hospital in rural Maine facing a serious budget deficit. As Director of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Case provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of non-profit management, medical research and to debate appropriate strategy for the Miami Project in 2007. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
trade-offs of continuing as a non-profit versus converting to a for-profit entity. Students will gain skills relevant to growing an organization that is mission-driven but financially constrained, and that has a complex array of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
session was devoted to the topic "Profits for Nonprofits: Challenges of Earning Your Own Way." (Starbuck's CEO Orin Smith addressed a related theme—can for-profit companies integrate non-profit values—in his keynote speech... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made a web platform through which Harvard and MIT, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
these businesses helps to explain why in more recent decades private waste companies have been associated with late entry into recycling, often trailing municipal governments and non-profit entities. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
celebrated its 10th anniversary as a center of the Milken Institute, Executive Director Margaret Anderson thought about what the organization should do to ensure it had even more impact in its next 10 years. FasterCures was a non-profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
users can access and improve the source code. At the same time, however, opening a module sets up an open source (free) competitor. This hampers the firm's ability to capture value. We analyze three competitive situations: monopoly, commercial firm vs. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Supplement 913-416 From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys (B) This case focuses on the growth of an innovative View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312038-PDF-ENG Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to ROAR? Noam Wasserman and Julia TaylorHarvard Business School Case 812-024 Earl Martin Phalen is in the midst of starting his second nonprofit organization, Summer Advantage, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with the escalating content demands from the marketplace and the non-profit OLPC Foundation. It also had to fit the project into its company business model which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
between commercial organizations and non-profit arts organizations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49908 Harvard Business School Case 716-010 Movile: Building a Global Technology Company No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
have a better understanding of how both commercial and non-profit organizations can contribute to improving not only society but also the economy as a whole. According to the SEI, the nonprofit sector comprises 7 percent of U.S. gross... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
low-cost PC options had emerged and OLPC had not started shipping yet, leading some observers to wonder if the non-profit should reconsider its strategy and options. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
counterparts, Hamilton was an unlikely candidate for success on Broadway. The trio needed to decide which of two popular routes was best to bring their new musical to Broadway: either take the production straight to Broadway in a “cold open,” or strike an “enhancement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
this case:http://hbr.org/search/312109-PDF-ENG Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution Robert C. Pozen and Grace HouHarvard Business School Case 312-131 Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
City Advantage In 1994, Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit program to study and catalyze inner city business development. He and the group in ICIC define inner cities as urban areas with high poverty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace