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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Accenture and the nonprofit Girls Who Code. Since its founding in 2012, Girls Who Code has scaled up dramatically—from a summer coding boot camp for 20 participants in New York City, the organization has...
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- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year, unrestricted grants coupled with...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
nonprofit and social sector. Greg Dees, Kash Rangan, and others were instrumental in this effort, which told students that they could be entrepreneurs. It was validation that it was important and even urgent for them to do so. Nowadays...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the options I considered was its View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Colorado-based Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), comes in. Since 2005, the nonprofit Growth Fund has provided necessary capital to 34 charter management organizations (CMOs) that run networks of charters serving 125,000 students in 330...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program....
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
officials, for example, feel it cathartic to go online and describe what happened. In addition to accumulating reports of corruption, the site, run by the Bangalore-based nonprofit Janaagraha, also generates heatmaps showing hotspots...
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- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
innovations are focused on creating social change. Catalytic innovators are defined by five distinct qualities. First, they create social change through scaling and replication. Second, they meet a need that is either overserved (that is,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations...
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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with...
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- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
find that MNCs expand the scale of their activities in reforming countries after IPR reform. MNCs that make extensive use of intellectual property disproportionately increase their use of inputs. There is an overall expansion of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
converting an idea into reality, recruiting inspired talent, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business. 100 Mistakes of a Start Up CEO (Start Up Guru Series) by Bill Lewis (AMP...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
first, but eventually she went back to working forty hours a week. After more than a year of being pulled in too many directions, she made the decision to leave and start a part-time consulting practice in Boston. Although she is still working, she recalls struggling...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that?Rivers: We support over 1,500 nonprofits every year and have done that for a while. So it’s always been a very broad-based giving. But this was a way to double down on some of those issues. As I think back to the early days of the...
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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
co-founder and CEO of the Rise Fund, has partnered with The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investments. Together, they have come up with a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
READ MORE In the UK, veteran biotech investor Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) leads the search for a COVID vaccine. As with any startup, money was the first obstacle Bingham needed to solve but, in this case, it was the easiest to overcome. View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
make their mission-driven product a reality. The case explores the co-founders' decision to pursue either a for-profit or nonprofit structure and their strategy for scaling their product, Teach to One....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
strategy consulting from a prior position in industry, government, or the nonprofit world—the MBA has long been viewed as absolutely essential. One dean, for example, noted that nearly 80 percent of students at his prior institution had...
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