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- Faculty Publications (261)
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
the transplant community seeks to balance quality and quantity in choosing the best matches. Financing for paired donation is a major issue, as philanthropy alone cannot support the emerging national system. We also discuss the advent of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
organization to a revenue and philanthropy orientation. Many social enterprise CEOs spend over half of their time on fundraising. Why? Simply put: without a sustainable revenue model, even the most exciting mission-driven organization...
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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
level provides important lessons for executives, policymakers, and the groups who benefit. But such knowledge also suggests more work to be done in order to learn how global business trends, such as industry consolidation and globalization, might influence local View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Opportunity International: Measurement and Mission
By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter
After a "first career" in business, HBS graduate Christopher Crane becomes CEO of a worldwide microfinance network. The organization's twin challenges are: 1) developing metrics to give it an accurate picture of its situation and impacts, and 2) generating rapid...
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Microfinance;
Measurement and Metrics;
Problems and Challenges;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business Model;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Financial Services Industry
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Opportunity International: Measurement and Mission." Harvard Business School Case 307-067, December 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
distribution from the endowment). HBP, Executive Education, and philanthropy are sensitive to trends in the economy and the capital markets, which continued to perform well in fiscal 2018. The School’s total revenues increased by $56...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, has written an empowering, entertaining, and informative guide for anyone striving for greater personal impact. From deal making to investing, leadership to entrepreneurship, philanthropy to...
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- January 2013 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Pittsburgh
By: Eric Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer
The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the...
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Google;
Population;
City Growth;
Shale;
PNC;
Tom Murphy;
Luke Ravenstahl;
Public-private Partnership;
Tax Increment Financing;
Brownfields;
Renaissance;
Industry Clusters;
Industry Growth;
City;
Business and Government Relations;
Taxation;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Higher Education;
Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Steel Industry;
Education Industry;
Pittsburgh
Werker, Eric, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy, and Andrew Knauer. "Pittsburgh." Harvard Business School Case 713-035, January 2013. (Revised October 2015.)
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
philanthropy in the creation of high-performing schools, which they have been able to replicate with high degrees of fidelity." Cutting Losses Unfettered by oversight from a local school board, most charters are authorized by state boards...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Philanthropy in U.S. Communities Authors:Tilcsik, András, and Christopher Marquis Abstract This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
from Publishing, Executive Education, and Online is forecasted to increase approximately 2 percent. Revenue from MBA tuition and fees is expected to be flat in fiscal 2020 for the first time in decades, reflecting the School’s efforts to slow the rising cost of MBA...
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- December 2016
- Case
Public Mission, Private Funding: The University of California, Berkeley
By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby
UC Berkley, long known as one of the leading public universities in both the U.S. and the world, has seen turbulent times recently. While student enrollment and costs have increased steadily in recent years, the school, which has been fiercely proud of its public...
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Public University;
University Administration;
Conflict Management;
State Funding;
Competition;
Faculty Governance;
University Of California Berkeley;
Change Management;
Volatility;
Diversity;
Residency;
Higher Education;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Globalization;
Policy;
Leading Change;
Crisis Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Privatization;
Problems and Challenges;
Education Industry;
United States
Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "Public Mission, Private Funding: The University of California, Berkeley." Harvard Business School Case 317-023, December 2016.
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element-the corporate foundation-constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
conservation. It currently has two high-tech submersibles rated to 1,000 meters and an elaborate new scientific vessel under construction. OceanX recently partnered with Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Bloomberg Philanthropies on a...
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- September 2018
- Teaching Note
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case....
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Scaling;
Education Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Service Operations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Performance Efficiency;
Resource Allocation;
Change Management;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Middle School Education;
Secondary Education;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Human Capital;
Growth Management;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Design;
Social Enterprise;
Poverty;
United States
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City...
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Education;
Service Operations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Performance Efficiency;
Resource Allocation;
Change Management;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Middle School Education;
Secondary Education;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Human Capital;
Growth Management;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Design;
Social Enterprise;
Poverty;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Review Making Charity Pay By: Norton, Michael I., and Jill Avery Abstract—Companies are increasingly experimenting with the use of philanthropy to enhance consumer loyalty, brand awareness, and sales. But even highly creative approaches...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
opportunity—as Kerry Rupp discovered when establishing True Wealth Ventures—to foster diversity among limited partners by bringing in investors who are new to the venture ecosystem, especially women who have traditionally focused on View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
entrepreneurs. There is also an opportunity—as Kerry Rupp discovered when establishing True Wealth Ventures—to foster diversity among limited partners by bringing in investors who are new to the venture ecosystem, especially women who have traditionally focused on...
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- April 2024
- Case
Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight Loss Drugs
By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Values and Beliefs;
Global Strategy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Patents;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Product Positioning;
Supply and Industry;
Supply Chain;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Opportunities;
Social Issues;
Equality and Inequality;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Health Industry;
Denmark;
United States;
Europe;
China;
India;
Middle East;
North Africa
- Web
Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
percent. Philanthropy will remain essential to the School’s financial health in fiscal 2019. Now that early Campaign donors have largely fulfilled their pledges, sustaining the $40 million given yearly to the HBS Fund since fiscal 2016 is...
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