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10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

Cross-sector partnerships between for-profit and nonprofit organizations are increasing in frequency and importance. Such collaborations, write Diana Barrett, James Austin and Sheila McCarthy, "are moving from an arm's-length 'philanthropic relationship' towards... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

15 Apr 2023
Conference Presentation

Autonomous Systems

By: Hise O. Gibson, Rob Wittman, Brandon Tseng, Nini Hamrick and Tim Booher

Autonomous systems have been on the front lines and front pages in the war in Ukraine, yet there are many unanswered questions regarding their future role and capabilities. Currently, these systems are employed in myriad use cases in logistics, intelligence, and... View Details

Keywords: War; Technology Adoption

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June 2023
Case

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Consequences for Agriculture

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

Russia's brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine that begain in February 2022 caused major destruction to Ukraine's agriculture sector, one of the most productive and important in the world. This note provides a brief overview of certain singificant moments and moments... View Details

Keywords: Food; Agribusiness; War; Disruption; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Shipping Industry; Ukraine; Russia

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Educators

2022
Chapter

Interrogating Corporate Purpose: Values Based Firms and the Struggle to Build a Just and Sustainable World

By: Rebecca Henderson

Book Abstract: Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Social Issues

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2018
Chapter

Will Urbanization Save the Chinese Economy or Destroy it?

By: Meg Rithmire

The Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping has announced its intentions to transition the economy from one driven by investment and exports to one driven by domestic demand. The main strategy to achieve this transformation involves massive state-led urbanization. This... View Details

Keywords: China; Urbanization; Economic Development; Urban Development; Economic Growth; China

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Aug 2011 - 2011
Conference Presentation

Combining Social and Economic Objectives: On the Challenges of Sustaining a Hybrid Organizational Form

By: Julie Battilana, A.-C. Pache, M. Sengul and Jacob Model

Keywords: Economics; Problems and Challenges; Organizations; Society

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Defense Management Challenge: Weapons Acquisition

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Management; Problems and Challenges; War

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December 2009
Article

From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

By: Shon R. Hiatt, Wesley Sine and Pamela Tolbert

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Opportunities; Society; Food and Beverage Industry

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November – December 2010
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Robin Hood under the Hood: Wealth-based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help

By: F. Gino and L. Pierce

Keywords: Wealth; Customers

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Wealth Making in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century: The Rubinstein Hypothesis Revisited

By: Tom Nicholas

Keywords: Wealth; Theory

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March 2006
Book Review

Book review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies

By: Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Economic Systems; Information; Society; Management

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Neo-Freudian Views of Maturity and Bureaucratic Norms

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Social Issues

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22 Jun 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

and Tom Nicholas look to answer that question, using a data set of prizes awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) between 1839 and 1939. View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

few—all stemming from structural features and systemic pressures related to race, capitalism and democracy, our themes for today. And of course, we are also seeing how these themes are intertwined this year, with the interdependence between business and View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark

School’s 101st Commencement, Dean Nitin Nohria told the graduates (including 9 DBAs and 11 PhDs), “Our faculty, students, and alumni are called upon to help solve the world’s most intractable problems because society at large believes... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Faculty Books for December 2016

Business By John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau (Springer) The authors introduce a model for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, they discuss the business imperative of... View Details

February 2022
Teaching Plan

Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-021. Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached... View Details

Keywords: Homelessness; Social Issues; Housing; Human Needs; Poverty; Welfare; Business and Community Relations; Analytics and Data Science; Business Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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April 2019 (Revised October 2021)
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The Rohingya Refugee: Past, Genocide, Future

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

In August 2017, the Myanmar military commenced a brutal pogrom of the Rohingya minority in Rakhine State, Myanmar. The genocidal campaign marked the most recent and decisive of a series of ethnic cleansing efforts fueled by contention around race, religion, and... View Details