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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Case 807-069 How does a small non-profit build its organization, funding, and visibility to become sustainable? Traces the history of Worldwide Orphans Foundation from its early days as little more than the dream of its impassioned...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
2007 as the first non-profit art center in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) had been operating with the mission to "promote the continued development of the Chinese art scene, foster international exchange, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
the future. Told through the experiences of CXOs at billion-dollar companies, star start-ups, and non-profits from around the world, the book chronicles the ups and downs of sophisticated organizations as they navigated the COVID-19...
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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
112-029 Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a View Details
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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:...
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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...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Carolina for Kibera (CFK) is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote youth leadership and gender and ethnic cooperation in Kibera, the largest unstructured settlement situated in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya....
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
concept, he was hesitant to mix the non-profit oriented efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a for-profit private equity investment. Turner had heard similar concerns from other philanthropists and foundations....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
non-profit corporation—must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic plan. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107051...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to the co-founder of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
and Lehman's failure would require skills, knowledge of financial services, and connections within the industry. ProPublica had been created only a year earlier as an independent, non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism....
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
of non-profit health clinics, its founder is now debating the merits of scaling the operation by converting to a for-profit enterprise. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512006-PDF-ENG
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
non-profit organizations. He is the author of the book The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations recently published by Penguin Random House. Initiatives focus...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
hospital-year observations and 59 mergers, reveals differences in post-merger customer-mix reconfiguration strategies. For-profit hospitals increase their share of the insured patients and decrease their share of uninsured patients after the merger, while View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
concurrent with an obesity epidemic, suggesting that low-income communities lacked access not just to food in general, but to healthy foods in particular. Rauch believed he could build a non-profit grocery store model that took advantage...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
in emergency grant funding to support non-profits throughout the state that provide food and help citizens register for SNAP benefits. Eos is providing grants and partnering with school districts and youth agencies to tap into the USDA...
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