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How Cities Are Using Analytics to Improve Public Health
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Deviating from the Business Plan
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Women Entrepreneurs for Peace in Afghanistan
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAs Afghan-U.S. relations continue to deteriorate, it's hard to imagine that the two nations can find political common ground. But the language of business... -
The Microwork Solution
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhat's the best way to lift people out of poverty? The social entrepreneurs in the new "impact sourcing" industry believe the answer is providing work,... -
Design an Organization that Makes a Difference
Strategy & Execution VideoYoung people today want to work for organizations that make a positive difference in the world. To attract talent, companies may need to restructure themselves... -
Put the "and" Back in "Sales and Marketing"
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An Apollo Program for American Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
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Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
Two Keys to Sustainable Social Enterprise
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleSocial entrepreneurship has emerged over the past several decades as a way to identify and bring about potentially transformative societal improvements.... -
The Downside of Focusing on Women and Girls
Global Business Digital ArticleYesterday was International Women's Day and there were many articles and blog posts championing the idea that anti-poverty philanthropy should focus on... -
Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe slow decline of industrial manufacturing in developed nations and recent failures of financial capitalism across the globe have sent us searching... -
A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleAn increasing number of social entrepreneurs and investors are realizing that social enterprises of all sorts, including many organizations regarded as... -
Key Traits of Social Entrepreneurs
John Elkington, founder and chief entrepreneur of SustainAbility, says social entrepreneurs are generating impressive results--and capturing the imaginations... -
Should Your Business Be Nonprofit or For-Profit?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe right model for social impact is both. -
The $300 House: Businesses Take Up the Challenge
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleEditor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar, a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Last week, the Tata Group,... -
The Covid-19 Pandemic is Forcing Companies to Build AI Skills Quickly
A huge digital transformation is gaining speed, and to succeed firms must focus on their digital core. -
It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleWe need measures to help people, animals, and plants survive the climate crisis. -
Multiplication Philanthropy
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLeverage is the mantra of the times in philanthropy, and rightly so. People want to know that the charities they support are using donations as effectively... -
An Innovative Approach to Funding CSR Projects
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleCorporate social responsibility remains a deeply controversial issue. Vermaelen proposes a creative way to finance CSR initiatives: through equity spin-offs... -
The Reluctant Social Entrepreneur
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleKathy Giusti never had any desire to be an entrepreneur, especially not one in the nonprofit sector. She was on the fast track at a huge corporation-and...
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Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine... -
Procam: New Paradigms in Long Distance Running
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Procam International, set up by brothers Anil and Vivek Singh, has been working in the field of sports management in India for over two decades. Procam... -
SNA Educa (ex Codesser)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details SNA Educa (previously known as Codesser) is a non-profit organization which was created by the National Association of Farmers (Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura,... -
Kapap Academy: A Hermit Warrior's Mission
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Kapap Academy Pte. Ltd. (Kapap Academy) was established in 2007, following the tragic death of the founder's older brother, with a mission to empower... -
Gram Oorja: Energy Access for Remote Rural India
Management Case Study8.95View Details Gram Oorja's mission was to make energy available to people in remote areas in India where the government power supply grid had not reached. They installed... -
AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Australian Indigenous university student who created the Australian Indigenous... -
NOW PT (B): Should We Invest?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This (B) case examines the results of the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team's diligence on Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT).... -
Scaling Social Enterprises: The Case of ENVIE and ACTIF in France (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details ENVIE and ACTIF are two French social enterprises that aim at creating employment opportunities for long-term unemployed people through refurbishing and... -
Rwanda Trading Company: Facing a Cash Flow Crisis
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case is about a for-profit social enterprise in Rwanda named the Rwanda Trading Company (RTC) which purchases coffee beans from coffee growers in... -
Made by Survivors: Business Solution for a Social Problem
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case tracks the creation and growth of a social enterprise, Made By Survivors (MBS), founded by Sarah Symons and John Berger. Inspired by a documentary... -
Napo Pharmaceuticals: Triple Bottom Line of People, Planet, and Profits (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Napo Pharmaceuticals case study provides students with an example of a biotech company that has pursued a triple bottom line of people, planet, and... -
JX Group: Private Eldercare Expansion in China
Management Case Study8.95View Details When it was founded in Hefei, China, in 2001, Jiujiu Xiyanghong Group (JX) started as a single private nursing home with fifty beds. Over its eighteen-year... -
Funding Philanthropy: Creating a Service NGO for Mothers
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case is about an affluent and educated woman who decided to start her own organization to support young mothers. Shortly after the birth of her first... -
UK's Embassy Village: Collaborating Across Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors to Tackle Rough Sleeping
Management Case Study8.95View Details Greater Manchester, England, has the third highest population of rough sleepers (people living on the streets) in the United Kingdom. In 2017, the city's... -
IngCare: Tough Choices for Social Entrepreneurship
Management Case Study8.95View Details What is unique about innovation in a social entrepreneurship setting compared to that of general entrepreneurship? The IngCare case serves as an illustration... -
Women's Community House and Mine101: Is Social Enterprise Worth It?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In May 2013, the director of transitional and community programs at Women's Community House (WCH) must decide whether to renew the retail lease on WCH's... -
Fatima Akilu: The rise of a quiet leader (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, Fatima Akilu found herself sitting at the kitchen table with her sister, shocked and saddened by what has just happened to her, wondering what... -
Waste Concern in Dhaka: Scaling a Model for Urban Waste Management
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In March 2006, Iftekhar Enayetullah and Abu Hasnat Md. Maqsood Sinha, the cofounders of Waste Concern, a social enterprise based in Dhaka, Bangladesh,... -
Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
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PlayPumps: A Playful Solution to Africa's Water Problem? (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This two-part case examines the PlayPumps project, which aimed to provide an innovative solution to water problems in southern Africa. Part A begins with...
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Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine... -
How Cities Are Using Analytics to Improve Public Health
Global Business Digital ArticleFrom restaurants to lead paint, data is making government more efficient. -
Procam: New Paradigms in Long Distance Running
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Procam International, set up by brothers Anil and Vivek Singh, has been working in the field of sports management in India for over two decades. Procam... -
SNA Educa (ex Codesser)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details SNA Educa (previously known as Codesser) is a non-profit organization which was created by the National Association of Farmers (Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura,... -
Kapap Academy: A Hermit Warrior's Mission
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Kapap Academy Pte. Ltd. (Kapap Academy) was established in 2007, following the tragic death of the founder's older brother, with a mission to empower... -
Engaging Employees as Social Innovators
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThis article explores a variety of ways employees are being engaged as social innovators in their companies or as co-creators in partnerships with other... -
Strange Bedfellows: eBay, craigslist and Profit versus Public Service, Instructor's Manual
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Alternative Sources of Revenue Exist Besides Product Sales
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Gram Oorja: Energy Access for Remote Rural India
Management Case Study8.95View Details Gram Oorja's mission was to make energy available to people in remote areas in India where the government power supply grid had not reached. They installed... -
AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Australian Indigenous university student who created the Australian Indigenous...