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- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
policy nonprofit that focuses on solving global poverty problems, worked with 3,146 Zambian girls in the eighth grade across 41 schools in Lusaka to implement it. Schoolgirls in Zambia receive negotiation training through the “Girls...
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Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
be cancelled. The case allows discussion of important concepts like what conditions aid an effective team dynamic, how an entrepreneurial company can scale in size while retaining the “power of small,” how companies can create value...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
technology meant that innovation to solve a problem could arrive from any quarter: prominent companies, nonprofit enterprises, "two students in a dorm room, or mothers or fathers after they have done their school pickups." He...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
was roughly a 60-40 split, with 60 percent allocated in stocks and 40 percent in bonds. That’s a classic portfolio for investors of the same age, which Minor says helped confirm he was on the right track. The misconduct data took more effort to gather. He turned to a...
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by Roberta Holland
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor protections limit the scale of multinational firm activity, increase the reliance on FDI flows, and alter the decision to deploy technology through FDI as...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Abstract—In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
country, Liberia, that was able to meet a similar, deadly threat by supplementing a health care system emerging from decades of civil strife with a cadre of less trained, but highly capable, community health workers. Could the Liberian model help with COVID-19 and...
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- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
public and government skepticism of the still nascent and highly volatile nonprofit sector? Would Teach For China be able to sustainably scale its model to truly end educational inequality in China? Purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
silver linings to COVID-19: “The first is that mental health will be prioritized in the same way as physical health; the second is that the care advancements we’ve made through innovation and technology will be permanent and we can continue to View Details
- 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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- 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
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in...
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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