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  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

efforts in two recent cases, “The Brand Management of Places” and “Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?” Success without a roadmap Government and business leaders hoping to shift the conversation about their regions might... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • 25 Jan 2017
  • HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

explains, the prejudice seems to have a deeper impact on women, whose worth is more often judged by society on their appearance. (This is obvious from matrimonial ads that seek brides who are “fair and beautiful.”) Founders of Women of Worth (WOW), a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • February 2009 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Early Childhood Education; Investment Return; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
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Childress, Stacey M., and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank." Harvard Business School Case 309-090, February 2009. (Revised September 2009.)
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

automatically covers all residents in its National Health Service, a public system with no out-of-pocket costs, and Germany and Israel have systems of coverage through competing nonprofit plans. Like programs in other countries, the... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • 31 Aug 2021
  • Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

power really works." In many ways, the book comes across as a sort of modern update of Machiavelli’s classic political treatise on power, but with plenty of non-Machiavellian twists. Instead of talking about how princes, plutocrats, and View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

organizations? Khanna: Leaders interviewed for the Emerging Markets project are generally considered to be iconic stewards of their society. They may be great business people, they may be prominent regulators, they may be people who built important View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2022
  • Case

EducationSuperHighway 2.0

By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "EducationSuperHighway 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 823-060, October 2022.
  • 29 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

Another option: Spin off a separate structure, such as a corporate foundation. Key elements in leadership were: Founders. Attendees expressed frustration over leadership and governance issues that stemmed from the fact that many View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 03 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

campaign? Because when the U.S. government increased food aid, it bought more food from American farmers. As a result, both the farmers and the nonprofits got what they wanted. “The problem was probably not... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
  • 20 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

first star men and women. Better yet, companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now a division of Northrup Grumman) have actually proven their launch vehicles by delivering satellites or payloads to extraterrestrial destinations. The latest news: Israel's View Details
Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

Campbell and Shang constructed a dataset of reviews from more than 4,000 publicly traded firms between 2008 and 2016, extracting a vocabulary of 11,772 unique words used in the reviews. At the same time, they obtained a database assembled by the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets within nonprofit organizations, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less effective. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

important roles foundations can play is to ensure that pluralism in the governance of these projects is sustained. Q: Will the nonprofit foundation be an organizational model that will define future software... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

opportunity to differentiate the company and its products. It can also elicit positive reactions from government officials and regulators on important business issues. Q: It's clear that nonprofits get... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • April 2003 (Revised September 2003)
  • Case

Harold Morton and the Rivendell Board (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Ingrid Vargas
Describes what happens as the trustee reflects on his first several years' experience. View Details
Keywords: Governance; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards
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McFarlan, F. Warren, and Ingrid Vargas. "Harold Morton and the Rivendell Board (B)." Harvard Business School Case 303-115, April 2003. (Revised September 2003.)
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and local governments will reach approximately $450 billion. Although per-pupil spending has more than doubled in real dollars over the last thirty years, student achievement has remained stagnant. U.S. students look mediocre, or worse,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • July 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Charles Veillon, S.A. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
The top management team at Charles Veillon, a Swiss mail-order company, is considering whether to work with a human rights organization to monitor the labor practices of its suppliers. A particular concern is avoiding child labor and other forms of workplace coercion.... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Governance Controls; Labor; Rights; Nonprofit Organizations; Switzerland
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Paine, Lynn S., and Aldo Sesia. "Charles Veillon, S.A. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 307-002, July 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
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