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- 2019
- Article
Reflections on 25 Years of Building Social Enterprise Education
By: James E. Austin and V. Kasturi Rangan
Purpose—This paper aims to reflect on 25 years of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School, examining the processes and thinking involved at key stages of this pioneering Initiative’s implementation and... View Details
- October 2015
- Article
How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies
By: Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices is revolutionizing business. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition," Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and CEO James... View Details
- 2014
- Book
Creating Value in Nonprofit–Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice
By: James E. Austin and M. May Seitanidi
- 2010
- Dictionary Entry
Civil Society - Business Relations
By: James E. Austin and Alnoor Ebrahim
- 2009
- Working Paper
Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). View Details
- September 2008
- Teaching Note
Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever (TN)
By: James E. Austin
Teaching Note for [306037]. View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
- Article
Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?
What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but they also pose unusually difficult challenges... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?
By: James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard
What happens when small iconic socially-oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because... View Details
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Organics: Coming Center Stage? (TN)
By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
Keywords: Food
- 2006
- Chapter
Social Entrepreneurship: It's for Corporations, Too
By: Dutch Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, Jane Wei-Skillern and James E. Austin
- November 2006
- Case
Organics: Coming Center Stage?
By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew its origins as a counterculture curiosity of the 1970s to become the fastest growing segment of the food industry in... View Details
- fall 2006
- Article
Business and Low-Income Sectors: Finding a New Weapon to Attack Poverty
By: James E. Austin and Michael Chu
- May 2006
- Teaching Note
Forest Stewardship Council (TN)
By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
Keywords: Forestry Industry
- December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever
By: James E. Austin and James Quinn
In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Value Creation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States