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The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems
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A Bretton Woods for the 21st Century
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleIf you are the leader of a large organization (or only of yourself) who cares about improving the world, here’s a question you should consider: How will you participate in the global solution networks that are increasingly managing to address the world’s problems? A global solution network is a group of independent parties that have […] -
A Data Scientist’s Real Job: Storytelling
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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time
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The Untapped Opportunity in Unformed Markets
Social enterprise Digital ArticleMarkets are emerging for social problems. Consider these numbers: $158 billion = size of the low-income health care market $332 billion = size of the low-income housing market $2.90 trillion = size of the low-income global food market And there are other unformed markets that cut across income levels: For example, what’s the size of […] -
The Executive Director of a UN Agency on Running It Like a Business
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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem
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Don’t Assume the Shoe Fits
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleMost businesspeople will serve on the board of a nonprofit organization at some point. But the governance of nonprofits can differ dramatically from the governance of businesses. Even the best intentions can prove disastrous when new board members fail to understand that their traditional business experience can carry them only so far. -
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Why Today’s Startups Pursue Both Ideas and Ideals
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Research: Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies
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The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
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How to Use Stretch Assignments to Support Social Good
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Collaboration Is the New Competition
Social enterprise Digital ArticleFive ways to drive large-scale social change by working cooperatively. -
The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship in B-Schools in Three Charts
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Is Your Social Venture Really Worth Scaling?
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Let's Be Realistic About Measuring Impact
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Why Companies Are Becoming B Corporations
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Entrepreneurs: You’re More Important Than Your Business Plan
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleWhen it comes to social ventures, talent matters more than strategy.
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The Paradox of Growing as a Values-Driven Company
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A Fast Track to Building Trust
Management VideoYou can't establish credibility without building trust, but trust takes time to develop. What can you do if you don't have time on your side? -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
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OpenAI’s Failed Experiment in Governance
Corporate governance Digital ArticleIn mixing the for-profit and nonprofit models, OpenAI hoped for the best of both worlds. Instead, it got the worst. -
How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain
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Research: Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies
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The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
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Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?
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Moving the Needle on Sustainability
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Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business
Social and global issues Digital ArticleMutually beneficial partnerships can both drive profit and alleviate poverty. -
What Happens When a Company (Like Patagonia) Transfers Ownership to a Nonprofit?
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How Business Coalitions Can Have a Strong Local Impact
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Accounting for Climate Change
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The Net Positive Manifesto
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How NGOs Can Help More People with DIY Solutions
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How Low and Middle-Income Countries Are Innovating to Combat Covid
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Getting Serious About Stakeholder Capitalism
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Why Today’s Startups Pursue Both Ideas and Ideals
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Power Sharing Can Change Corporations for the Better
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A New Way to Scale Social Enterprise
Social enterprise Digital ArticleA new type of security, called “mission equity,” caps investor returns so the company’s financial success can help fuel its mission.
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Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of... -
Friends of the Children: Innovating and Scaling to Meet the Moment(s)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Friends of the Children was founded by Duncan Campbell in 1991. Campbell grew up in extremely challenging circumstances and wanted to use his good fortune... -
Monsters in the Machine? Tackling the Challenge of Responsible AI
Management Case Study8.95View Details In November of 2022, the small tech company OpenAI released ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot which quickly captured the public's imagination-becoming... -
Food for Education: Improving Education Outcomes by Feeding Schoolchildren in Kenya
Management Case Study8.95View Details Food for Education is a Kenya-based non-governmental organization that provides nutritious school meals founded in 2012 by nutritionist Wawira Njiru to... -
Richard Henkel GmbH: Growing Profits, Not Sales
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Based in southern Germany, Richard Henkel GmbH was a manufacturing firm focused on its triple-bottom line rather than on its sales turnover. Driven by... -
Fairphone 3: Commercializing Radical Sustainability
Management Case Study8.95View Details The mobile phone industry is notorious for its lack of sustainability. Fairphone started as a campaign to draw attention to 'conflict minerals' and the... -
Low-Carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details For the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies-wind,... -
Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023
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Ozyegin Social Investments: A Legacy of Giving
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Wateroam: Social Enterprise in Singapore
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Wateroam is a social enterprise that develops water filtration systems for rural and disaster-hit areas. Since 2014, Wateroam has deployed its water filtration... -
Accounting Outages at Plug Power? (C)
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Can Goodr Fight Food Insecurity at Scale?
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Derek Aguirre
Management Case Study8.95View Details Derek Aguirre is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Detroit, Michigan that uses the sport of squash as a vehicle to support young people... -
Gone Rural
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Frontiers in Social Innovation: The Essential Handbook for Creating, Deploying, and Sustaining Creative Solutions to Systemic Problems
The one book you need to make a difference in the world. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are rising forces. As the extent of the world's... -
Arbusta: Youth Integration into a Competitive Labor Market
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Arbusta was a social enterprise in the ICT sector, recognized for both the quality of its services and for employing disadvantaged youth. It had more... -
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Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The final case in the series of Janet Ames looks at the challenges of managing a nonprofit and what to do in the instance of suspected fraud. -
for&from: An Inditex Group Social Franchise
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Fresh Routes: Navigating Uncertain Times
Management Case Study8.95View Details Fresh Routes, a not-for-profit social enterprise with the mission of advancing local food security, was focused on creating new and innovative ways of... -
San Rafael: How Uncommon Stakeholder Alliances Reduced Chronic Homelessness
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In early 2016, San Rafael, California, created a new position - Director of Homeless Planning and Outreach. The goal was to solve this complex social...
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The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems
Motivating people Digital ArticleThey’re a reminder that mastery, membership, and meaning are the best motivators. -
Dealing with a Changing Environment: Fundacion Peruana para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (A) and (B), Teaching Note
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A Manager's Role in Triple Bottom Line: Global Compact and Responsible Value Creation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleSustainable development-organizing an organization in a way that it can function in the long term-began gaining global attention in 1983 when the United... -
Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of... -
A Fast Track to Building Trust
Management VideoYou can't establish credibility without building trust, but trust takes time to develop. What can you do if you don't have time on your side? -
A Bretton Woods for the 21st Century
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleIf you are the leader of a large organization (or only of yourself) who cares about improving the world, here’s a question you should consider: How will you participate in the global solution networks that are increasingly managing to address the world’s problems? A global solution network is a group of independent parties that have […] -
A Data Scientist’s Real Job: Storytelling
Social enterprise Digital ArticleCrunching numbers is only half the battle. -
Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWe're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge, the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Reimagining... -
The Untapped Opportunity in Unformed Markets
Social enterprise Digital ArticleMarkets are emerging for social problems. Consider these numbers: $158 billion = size of the low-income health care market $332 billion = size of the low-income housing market $2.90 trillion = size of the low-income global food market And there are other unformed markets that cut across income levels: For example, what’s the size of […] -
The Executive Director of a UN Agency on Running It Like a Business
International business Magazine ArticleCost control and risk management have been crucial.
