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  • 15 Sep 2020
  • News

Lifting Fallen Families

fundraising with individuals and large corporate partners, and partnerships with Veterans Affairs, the nonprofit continues to see increases in its gifts to families and the number of people the organization is able to find and assist. The... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight

Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison... View Details
Keywords: incarceration; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things

By: Frank Nagle
In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but growing, not-for-profit organization to thrive for another decade. Their sensor technologies and big data analytics... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Expansion; Information Technology; Health Industry; Information Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 21 May 2018
  • News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the impacts of hundreds of Bay Area View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology

Building on its commitment to delivering innovative custom education programs to corporations around the world, last November the School launched HBS Interactive (HBSi). The wholly owned nonprofit organization will pursue an expanded... View Details
Keywords: HBSi; HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

challenges, few BOP ventures can be expected to reach scale at the pace seen in their mainstream counterparts. Indeed, those BOP ventures that do quickly reach scale often credit some of their success to support from governments, multilateral donors, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States
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  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (B): Kevin Hart and Clubhouse

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Andreessen Horowitz secures an agreement with Clubhouse, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round. One of the factors that insiders saw as pivotal in the race to be Clubhouse’s VC firm of choice was Andreessen... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 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
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  • December 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Worldwide Orphans Foundation

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Susan Saltrick
How does a small non-profit build its organization, funding, & visibility to become sustainable? Traces the history of Worldwide Orphans Foundation from its early days as little more than the dream of its impassioned founder, Dr. Jane Aronson, to a thriving global... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Welfare
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  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

the time, the panelists said. Andrea Silbert (HBS MBA '92), founder of a nonprofit called the Center for Women and Enterprise, which offers services and funding assistance to women entrepreneurs, said it's important to be realistic and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

existing programs to add value for an alumni audience, and offering possible topics for new programs. In particular, the committee is focused on building attendance at The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit, Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Advance Racial Equity in the Office

notes. John Rice is the CEO and founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow, a national nonprofit that equips underrepresented minorities with the tools to become high-impact leaders. Its Black Equity at Work Certification program... View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Action Plan: Border Crossing

Tea’s products. We chose our name because tea evokes a sense of presence, connection, and timelessness.” Rawdon’s desire to foster these cross-cultural connections also led to Tea’s partnership with the Global Fund for Children (GFC), a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • Fast Answer

Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

(Hart) Strategies for the Green Economy (Makower) Cradle to Cradle (McDonough and Braungart)  Business and think-tank resources McKinsey Featured Insights / Climate Change Carbon Commentary Newsletter World Economic Forum Platforms Rocky Mountain Institute Ceres a... View Details
  • March 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

The Posse Foundation: Implementing a Growth Strategy

The Posse Foundation selected high-potential, non-traditional students to attend selective colleges as part of a group of 10 from the same city. The organization had developed an ambitious growth plan, but because it focused on the most selective colleges, the pool of... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Higher Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry
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  • July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
  • Case

Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Adoption; Health Industry; District of Columbia
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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

http://hbr.org/product/Beyoncé/an/515036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-052 Teach For China and the Chinese Nonprofit Sector Teach For China was founded in 2008 with the mission of expanding educational opportunity across China.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

were conducted during the lockdown last year in Tamil Nadu and real-time implementation of the drones delivering COVID-19 vaccines looks promising.” JANUARY 11 Ten years ago, Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) founded Hope and Comfort, a nonprofit... View Details