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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
"A Conference on Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches," with a goal of beginning to identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
to be ideal candidates to scale it to those greater heights. Yet, despite their passion for the cause, the Linns knew better than to make the commitment quickly. “HBS taught us to dream big while also using the strategic and analytical...
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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 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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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
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 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
from large groups of people is exactly what nonprofits and political campaigns have been doing for more than a century. In today's world, though, the Internet has dramatically altered the ability for companies and independent...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
be determined. Snoey says that riding has replaced his other great love, mountain climbing. Scaling over fifty mountains around the world, including Mount McKinley, Alpamayo, Kilimanjaro, Orizaba, and Mont Blanc, took its physical toll...
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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
- First Look
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
- Web
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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- 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
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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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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
established then in 1997. The governors who provided the seed funding for a private nonprofit institution already had their own public institutions, and I think they simply just recognized that there were many of their residents that were...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets within nonprofit organizations, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less effective. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
capital commitment. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/residencial-los-andes/an/213074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-043 Endeavor: Miami Heats Up Endeavor Global was a nonprofit that for 15 years had worked to nurture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
network that would enable employers to increase the scale of the students they were able to reach. And we really wanted to do so with universities at the core of our business. So the business model of Handshake is, we’ve built a kind of...
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