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- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
around issues of racism in the US and make long-term change. The team transformed the Anti-Racism Fund GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization, ARF, and then set off to make that organization the best...
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Educational Innovation - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
Educational Innovation Educational Innovation Hybrid Learning the HBS Way HBS’s hybrid classrooms feature state-of-the-art equipment and technology that enables the professor to see and interact with...
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Global Understanding - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
Uniqlo (Fast Retailing), Lawson, Yamato Transport, and a hospital chain,” Takeuchi notes. “No one could believe Harvard students would travel 7,000 miles to help.” Since the Japan IFC started, more than 300 students have volunteered in the area (with small businesses,...
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University Collaborations - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Competition, which fosters innovation across the University, 53 teams from nine Harvard schools presented their nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid business plans. Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19 Current and former student teams in the...
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University Collaborations - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
nonprofits provide essential medicines to poor and developing countries, and lead regulatory agencies. “We want our alums to change the world . . . to dramatically reduce disease in the world . . . to heal humanity,” he says. Empowering...
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Investors Society Report - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
The students utilized the School’s hybrid classrooms and assisted faculty with research on topics ranging from corporate social responsibility to entrepreneurship to finance; most also lived on campus. Since PRIMO’s launch, nearly 200...
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- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
“It’s multifaceted.” With this key learning, Mbanusi joined a nonprofit organization, MDC, which equips Southern leaders, institutions, and communities to improve economic mobility and advance equity. The organization focuses on public...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
world needs principled leaders. Business has become one of the most dynamic forces in our society. If you look at what our graduates are asked to do, you will find them holding influential positions on the boards of major nonprofit and...
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Hedge Funds | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
(Registration required) Hedge Fund Association /citations/hedge-fund-association International nonprofit association of hedge fund managers, service providers, and investors....
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19 - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
the world during the pandemic.” More on university collaborations Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard In the Social Enterprise Track of the annual New Venture Competition, which fosters innovation across the University, 53 teams from nine Harvard...
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
entertainment had to broaden their searches.” To support students facing this uncertainty, the flexible resources of the HBS Fund enabled the School to triple funding for its Summer Fellowship Program and...
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
included nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid business plans. “The SEI aims to educate, inspire, and support leaders across all sectors to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world,” explains Director Rob Zeaske...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
more management training, I could better help those organizations,” Van Gerpen recalls. “I was drawn to HBS because it seemed to recognize the importance of the nonprofit sector.” After graduating, she worked for eight years in Boston, as...
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- October 2017 (Revised September 2018)
- Supplement
Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Namrata Arora
This follow up case study explores the ramifications of Jumia's decision to move from a retail-led to a markplace business model for its e-commerce platform. The case visits the company's successes as well as its many failures when adopting this vendor-led strategy. ...
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Retail;
Marketplace;
Inventory;
Funding;
Business Ecosystems;
Business Ecosystem;
Competition;
Business Model;
Globalization;
Emerging Markets;
Expansion;
Logistics;
Retail Industry;
India;
Nigeria;
Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Namrata Arora. "Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-432, October 2017. (Revised September 2018.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
needed to quit my job and focus on the museum full-time. Suddenly I needed to understand climate-control systems and lighting. Then there was the business model and hiring our team. It was a completely mad period of bringing an entire organization to life and raising...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance
By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this paper we document the extent and reach of state capitalism around the world and explore its economic implications. We focus on governmental provision of capital to corporations—either equity or debt—as a defining feature of state capitalism. We present a...
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State Capitalism;
State-owned Enterprises;
Development Banks;
Sovereign Wealth Funds;
Economic Systems;
State Ownership;
Sovereign Finance;
Business and Government Relations;
Investment
Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini. "Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-108, June 2012.
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operations of their complicated, not-for-profit institutions. "The job of running a museum is much bigger and broader than it once was," observes HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, an expert on nonprofit management who...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
commercial revenue to fund its social mission. As such, hybrids combine typical aspects of both corporations and social organizations. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives”...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to...
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