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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
Using Technology and Data for Social Impact
Social enterprise Digital ArticleMonth three of our special series on scaling entrepreneurial solutions that benefit society. -
How Social Entrepreneurs Make Change Happen
Social enterprise Digital ArticleThe story of how one organization envisioned a future transformed. -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics
Social enterprise Digital ArticleTo understand your social impact, you need to measure the right things. -
Quality of Work Life—Learning from Tarrytown
Labor Magazine ArticleAt this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself -
Augmented Reality Is Already Improving Worker Performance
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleOne example shows a productivity boost of over 30% — on a worker’s first use, and without prior training. -
Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees
Labor Digital ArticleIt’s time to stop treating the situation as a short-term crisis. -
How Can India Unleash Its Entrepreneurs?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIn the course of the last three days I have spent at the 2009 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF), I have heard speeches from many politicians and policy-makers — from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma to Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning […] -
Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money
Social enterprise Digital ArticleData shows that direct cash transfers can lift people out of poverty. -
Understanding Competence at Work
Labor Magazine ArticleBeing good at your job means having the right understanding of your job. -
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... -
Health Reform Lessons from Mexico
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEditor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative... -
The Problem with Accounting for Employees as Costs Instead of Assets
Labor Digital ArticleIf we could better track the value of human capital, employees would be better off. -
Business Can Help End Child Labor
Global Business Digital ArticleExamples from the real world. -
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
Business and society Digital ArticleHow businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone. -
A New Way to Scale Social Enterprise
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA new type of security, called "mission equity," caps investor returns so the company's financial success can help fuel its mission. -
Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask
Labor Magazine ArticleAn economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? A stress test—an assessment of how a system functions under severe or unexpected pressure—can help you home in on the […] -
Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThis season of giving often brings a focus on corporate philanthropy - on giving. But it's hard to do well. If you wanted to design a corporate philanthropy... -
One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings
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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... -
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... -
Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused... -
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... -
Fighting Bonded Labor in Rural India: Village Activist Gyarsi Bai Tackles an Entrenched System of Coercion
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October 2010, the beating of a 30-year-old bonded laborer-his punishment for staying home sick from work-in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan... -
Cancer Health Alliance of Metropolitan Chicago: Working Together to Achieve Mutual Goals
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how four independent, community-based nonmedical centers that offered professional services and programs to cancer patients on a voluntary non-fee... -
Conducting Social Impact Assessment for Third Sector Organizations
Management Case Study11.95View Details Social impact assessment has become increasingly valued by social investors or funders to capture the value their investments can generate. As such, traditional... -
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that... -
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... -
ArthaKranti: Need for Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the situation faced by a Trust named ArthaKranti. ArthaKranti (meaning economic revolution) was formed in 2005 to offer an unconventional... -
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... -
Hope for Special Hope? (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case set follows Eric and Holly Nelson, founders of Special Hope Network, a nonprofit organization providing holistic therapy services for children... -
OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In the wake of George Floyd's killing in May 2020, and widespread protests for social justice in the United States, OneTen was formed by a coalition of... -
Cycle for Survival (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Update on Cycle for Survival's 2012, 2013, and 2014 events. Kotkins and Cycle for Survival continued the event's strong growth, and underwent the first... -
Lyric Opera of Chicago: Setting the Scene to Grow Ticket Sales
Management Case Study11.95View Details In the summer of 2022, the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Lyric), a major opera company, is facing a deepening challenge. Lyric has seen ticket sales decrease,... -
Nate Chooses a Business Entity
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case follows Nate Jamison as he determines which business entity to form for his growing City Moving Company (City Moving) in Washington, DC. From... -
Escudo Rojo: A Salvation Army Initiative and Its Economic Growth Options
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case analyzes a successful economic initiative (Red Shield), whose profits help support a legendary religious institution (The Salvation Army) while... -
The Pandemic's Impact on YLED: Navigating Uncertainty and Sustainability
Management Case Study11.95View Details In June 2020, Steven Zwane, founder and chairperson of the Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development (YLED) program, based in Johannesberg, South... -
Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The B case documents the development of a strategy to achieve system-level impact in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape for a nonprofit focused on... -
Steve Mariotti and NFTE
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization...
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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... -
Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
Using Technology and Data for Social Impact
Social enterprise Digital ArticleMonth three of our special series on scaling entrepreneurial solutions that benefit society. -
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... -
How Social Entrepreneurs Make Change Happen
Social enterprise Digital ArticleThe story of how one organization envisioned a future transformed. -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics
Social enterprise Digital ArticleTo understand your social impact, you need to measure the right things. -
Quality of Work Life—Learning from Tarrytown
Labor Magazine ArticleAt this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself -
Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused... -
Augmented Reality Is Already Improving Worker Performance
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleOne example shows a productivity boost of over 30% — on a worker’s first use, and without prior training.