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Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
Why You Need a Supplier-Diversity Program
Global Business ResearchIt can lift up disadvantaged communities - and make your business more competitive. -
A Question of Character
Leadership Magazine ArticleJoe Ryan turned a small-town cosmetics company into a national powerhouse, making employees happy and shareholders rich in the process. Does it really matter that he cheats on his wife? -
How to Measure a Company's Real Impact
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA comprehensive new approach to quantifying an organization's footprint on the world. -
The Biosphere Rules
Operations strategy Magazine ArticleNature employs production processes that are surprisingly efficient, environmentally sound—and widely imitable. -
Copenhagen: Are You Guilty of Personal Greenwashing?
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleI have a colleague who cares passionately about the environment. She worries about global warming, supports policy to reduce carbon emissions, and is militant about keeping the heat down and maintaining the proper tire pressure in her car. Yet her car is an SUV that gets shameful (her words) gas mileage. She lives in a […] -
Ethics in Practice
Business ethics Magazine ArticleAs the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […] -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleManagers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks. -
Price Gouging and the Dangerous New Breed of Pharma Companies
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleThey are prioritizing profits over R&D. -
Using Data to Provide Better Health Care to New York's Homeless
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleHelping the largest homeless population in the U.S. -
What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleThe good, the bad, and the surprising from a new report. -
When Your Business Has Nowhere to Hide
Organizational Development Digital ArticleOnly the Paranoid Survive was the title of Andrew Grove's candid account of the years he headed Intel, leading it from a small maker of computer chips... -
Circular Supply Chains Are More Sustainable. Why Are They So Rare?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWhat companies can learn from successful recycling efforts. -
Growth Isn’t Going to Last Forever
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleAside from tiny Bhutan and their pursuit of Gross National Happiness, every country bases economic policy on the pursuit of endless GDP growth, and companies are right there with them. But common sense tells us that nothing can grow forever, and thus national and corporate-level goals alike have a sizeable blind spot. This recent humorous […] -
The $300 House: Go, Go, Go!
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe $300 House: The Challenge The Financial Challenge The Design Challenge The Energy Challenge The Co-Creation Challenge The Marketing Challenge The... -
Aerial Photos Tell a Story About Which Cities Are Embracing Clean Energy
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAnd which aren't. -
Finding the Money to Green Your Business
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleContrary to the popular misconception that going green is expensive, in a very large range of cases, environmental initiatives don’t raise costs, they lower them — and fast. In operational areas such as facilities (heating, cooling, lighting), fleet, IT, and waste, leading companies continue to find large savings in shockingly simple actions, such as changing […] -
Coastal Cities Are Increasingly Vulnerable, and So Is the Economy that Relies on Them
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleMiami is a perfect example. -
Profits with a Purpose: An Interview with Tom Chapman
Public relations Magazine ArticleGreatest Southeast Community Hospital is a 494-bed acute care facility located in southeast Washington, D.C. With revenues of $145 million and 2,650 employees, it is both the largest private employer and the only medical facility in a troubled and isolated community called Anacostia. Nearly a quarter of the area’s residents live below the poverty line, […]
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Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight... -
Me to We: A Social Enterprise and Its Future Growth
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Me to We was a Canadian social enterprise created in 2008 to provide a stable source of funds to finance Free the Children, a non-profit organization... -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
Legal Compliance Programs
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the basic elements of a typical corporate compliance or ethics program, focusing on the components of an "effective" program set forth in the... -
Bain Capital: Outback Steakhouse
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Bain Capital had purchased Outback Steakhouse in 2007 and despite the myriad initiatives to improve operations, the financial collapse in 2008 threatened... -
This Case Sucks: Beavis, Butt-head, and TV Content (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Do you-as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business-know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions... -
Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case features Monica Issar, then Global Head of J.P. Morgan Endowments & Foundations Group in the Private Bank. In just five years, she and J.P.... -
AM FRESH in 2020
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Analyzing Low Patient Satisfaction at Herzog Memorial Hospital
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In late 2012 Adeline Herzog Memorial Hospital in Castle Rock, Colorado, was facing a problem with patient satisfaction. The Press-Ganey scores for the... -
MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe? (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This is an abridged version of "MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?" HBS Case No. 416-004. Scott and Ally Svenson, the founders of MOD Pizza, had to make a... -
Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale and Edyficar, owned by BCP, Peru's largest bank, is evaluating its acquisition. Until recently, such a transaction... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Faced with the need to dispose of an offshore oil storage installation, the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation develops what it believes is a straightforward... -
Armscor: Life After Apartheid?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details After taking office, South Africa's new president, Nelson Mandela, must decide whether to dismantle or support Armscor, South Africa's state-owned arms... -
The Pebble Mine (F): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case W16178. Alaska's economy had struggled for many years; however, in spring 2014, the Pebble Mine presented an opportunity to revitalize... -
Century Galaxy Group: The Price of Compassion
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case describes what happened in December 2019 when Guo Meiling, the chairwoman of Beijing Century Galaxy Group, needed to decide whether she should... -
Honest Tea: Sell Up or Sell Out?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Are "wide-scale distribution" and "sustainability" mutually exclusive? This case explores this question through the examples of Honest Tea, one of the... -
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A company with a strong commitment toward corporate social responsibility since its founding days, Green Mountain faced an ethical decision point in 2007... -
Exporting American Culture
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A large entertainment company, extensively criticized for producing violent, offensive, and anti-social material, is considering whether to sell its material... -
Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the indigenous people's perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed...
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Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
Why You Need a Supplier-Diversity Program
Global Business ResearchIt can lift up disadvantaged communities - and make your business more competitive. -
Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight... -
A Question of Character
Leadership Magazine ArticleJoe Ryan turned a small-town cosmetics company into a national powerhouse, making employees happy and shareholders rich in the process. Does it really matter that he cheats on his wife? -
Me to We: A Social Enterprise and Its Future Growth
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Me to We was a Canadian social enterprise created in 2008 to provide a stable source of funds to finance Free the Children, a non-profit organization... -
How to Measure a Company's Real Impact
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA comprehensive new approach to quantifying an organization's footprint on the world. -
The Biosphere Rules
Operations strategy Magazine ArticleNature employs production processes that are surprisingly efficient, environmentally sound—and widely imitable. -
Copenhagen: Are You Guilty of Personal Greenwashing?
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleI have a colleague who cares passionately about the environment. She worries about global warming, supports policy to reduce carbon emissions, and is militant about keeping the heat down and maintaining the proper tire pressure in her car. Yet her car is an SUV that gets shameful (her words) gas mileage. She lives in a […] -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
Legal Compliance Programs
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the basic elements of a typical corporate compliance or ethics program, focusing on the components of an "effective" program set forth in the...