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Creating Shared Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleHow to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a wave of innovation and growth. -
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
Global Business Digital ArticleHow businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone. -
The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleMost companies feel compelled to give to charity. Few have figured out how to do it well. -
Innovating by Making the World a Better Place
Innovation Digital ArticleMaggie Brenneke, director of the Skoll Social Enterprise Program at SustainAbility. When businesses consider their social and environmental bottom lines, they identify new opportunities to innovate. Some of those opportunities can be surprising! -
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 […] -
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. -
When You’ve Made Enough to Make a Difference
Accounting Magazine ArticleA strategy for becoming an effective philanthropist. -
Look to Government—Yes, Government—for New Social Innovations
Government Digital ArticleA sample of pilot programs from around the world. -
Why Today’s Startups Pursue Both Ideas and Ideals
Corporate social responsibility Big IdeaPurpose can provide strategic and operational advantages. -
3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem
Social enterprise Digital ArticleIt’s the only challenge that gets harder as they scale. -
The Elements of an Effective Cause Marketing Campaign
Sales and marketing Digital ArticleStop thinking “public service announcement.” -
The Net Positive Manifesto
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleBoth practically and morally, corporate leaders can no longer sit on the sidelines of major societal shifts or treat human and planetary issues as "someone... -
When Social Enterprise Demands Mega Scale
Social enterprise Digital ArticleBuilding consensus for an audacious climate change solution will require a proof-of-concept pilot. -
Can You Help Solve These Social Entrepreneurs’ Challenges?
Social enterprise Digital ArticleEditors’ note: A few weeks ago, HBR asked members of the Poptech Social Innovation Fellows to tell us their management challenges in running socially minded businesses. Our goal in doing so was to expose these challenges to you — the HBR.org community — with the hopes that the community could assist these challenges via conversations […] -
Making #GivingTuesday a Movement
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleIt was a great new idea last holiday season. Can we turn it into a tradition? -
Adding Values to Valuations: Indra Nooyi and Others as Institution-Builders
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article(Editor's note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will... -
The Noncorporate Organization
Economics Digital ArticleBefore the dotcom boom, one never heard the question “what’s your business model?” Asking it would have marked you as dim. A few standard models had been around for a hundred years or so: extractive businesses and agriculture, manufacturing operations, service businesses, media companies, and financial intermediaries, each accommodating a few variations like franchising, piecework, […] -
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... -
A Better Path to Prosperity
Economics Digital ArticleUmair Haque, author of The New Capitalist Manifesto, explains how companies can create real, lasting value. -
How CEOs Can Lead Selflessly Through a Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTake a pay cut, communicate transparently, and give back with purpose.
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Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
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
Human rights Digital ArticleA case study of the popular Dutch chocolate company. -
Research: Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleA closer look at the social pressures that dissuade job candidates from negotiating for more money. -
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? -
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. -
Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?
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Moving the Needle on Sustainability
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany sustainability initiatives focus on improving the sustainability of products and operations in legacy or adjacent markets or on achieving sustainability... -
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?
Corporate governance Digital ArticleThis form of ownership may be new in the U.S., but it’s relatively common in Europe. -
How Business Coalitions Can Have a Strong Local Impact
Business and society Digital ArticleBest practices based on an analysis of more than 40 regional initiatives. -
Accounting for Climate Change
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The Net Positive Manifesto
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleBoth practically and morally, corporate leaders can no longer sit on the sidelines of major societal shifts or treat human and planetary issues as "someone... -
How NGOs Can Help More People with DIY Solutions
Business and society Digital ArticleIn certain cases, offering unfinished products to aid recipients can lead to better results — and help make the most of limited resources. -
How Low and Middle-Income Countries Are Innovating to Combat Covid
Global Business Digital ArticleSeven lessons for innovators everywhere. -
Getting Serious About Stakeholder Capitalism
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBusiness can't thrive in an environment of unhealthy employees, customers, and communities, an at-risk planet, and a fractured society. To transition... -
Why Today’s Startups Pursue Both Ideas and Ideals
Corporate social responsibility Big IdeaPurpose can provide strategic and operational advantages. -
Power Sharing Can Change Corporations for the Better
Global Business Big IdeaStrategies for ensuring stakeholder voices are heard and ESG goals are met. -
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. -
Companies Can - and Should - Help Employees Pay Student Loans
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLessons from PwC's paydown program.
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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... -
Social Finance, Inc.
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Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2021, BlackRock-the world's largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)-sought to become a leader in promoting environmental... -
LA-Más: Can Co-Leadership Improve Outcomes for Organizations and the Communities they Serve?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details LA-Más is a nonprofit that combines design and architecture with policy experience to promote neighborhood resilience and elevate the voice of working-class... -
Cost Plus Drugs
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In September 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO Alex Oshmyansky considered the future of the company. Cost Plus Drugs was a retailer for more... -
for&from: An Inditex Group Social Franchise
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Starting in 2001, Inditex's Sustainability Department promoted with the Group's business units a unique chain that remained largely unknown to the general... -
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... -
WATEROAM: THE QUEST FOR SOCIAL IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details David Pong, co-founder and CEO of a water technology start-up, had good news to share with his team: after several rounds of pitching and evaluation,... -
The Bronx Community Foundation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Derrick and Desmon Lewis were both successful professionals in the consulting and banking industries. They were born and raised in The Bronx, New York... -
Accounting Outages at Plug Power? (C)
Management Case Study15.05View Details Set in June 2023, the C case explores Plug Power's recovery from its financial restatements, how it benefited from government subsidies, and new strategic... -
Accounting Outages at Plug Power (A)
Management Case Study8.95View Details Set immediately after a December 2019 short-seller attack, the case explores Plug Power's long challenging history. It then focuses on two key issues... -
Greenpeace
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental... -
Big Chocolate: Child Slavery in the Cocoa Industry
Management Case Study8.95View Details Dick Marty was a Swiss Parliamentarian and former state prosecutor. In 2015, Marty led the Swiss Coalition for Corporate Justice (SCCJ), an alliance of... -
FoodCloud: Tackling Food Insecurity and Climate Change in One Bite
Management Case Study8.95View Details In 2013, Aoibheann O'Brien and Iseult Ward founded FoodCloud, a non-profit social enterprise that aimed to address food waste and food insecurity issues.... -
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A case on scaling social impact for nonprofits. Founded in 1995, KaBOOM! quickly became a nationally recognized nonprofit in building playgrounds with... -
Funding My Sisters' Place: Building a Sustainable Social Enterprise
Management Case Study8.95View Details By the spring of 2021, My Sisters' Place, a safe, welcoming, and inclusive support centre for women in London, Ontario, had welcomed countless women to... -
Akshaya Patra: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Thereafter
Management Case Study8.95View Details The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) headquartered in Bengaluru, India. It was founded by ISKON (religious foundation)... -
mPharma: Scaling Access to Affordable Primary Care in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details mPharma CEO Greg Rockson is attempting to create the largest pan-African primary healthcare company. He must evaluate a three-year strategy potentially... -
Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed... -
Kapor Capital
Management Case Study15.05View Details Case on succession planning at a mission-driven, diverse VC firm.
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Creating Shared Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleHow to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a wave of innovation and growth. -
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
Global Business Digital ArticleHow businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone. -
The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleMost companies feel compelled to give to charity. Few have figured out how to do it well. -
Innovating by Making the World a Better Place
Innovation Digital ArticleMaggie Brenneke, director of the Skoll Social Enterprise Program at SustainAbility. When businesses consider their social and environmental bottom lines, they identify new opportunities to innovate. Some of those opportunities can be surprising! -
The Data Behind it All
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEnvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) is becoming more and more important in our world today, and underlying data is vital in giving it meaning.... -
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 […] -
Alternative Sources of Revenue Exist Besides Product Sales
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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... -
Social Finance, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details -
Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2021, BlackRock-the world's largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)-sought to become a leader in promoting environmental...