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In 1999, Eli and Edythe Broad established the Broad Education Foundation on the area of Kindergarten through 12th (K-12) public education reform. By 2004, the Broads had committed nearly $500 million to the education foundation. While many educational…
In 1999, eBay’s first president and entrepreneur Jeff Skoll founded the Skoll Foundation. When eBay went public in 1998, Skoll gained sizeable wealth overnight and decided to actively engage in philanthropy. Through his foundation, Skoll sought to fund…
Immediately after the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, the New York Community Trust (“the Trust”) and the United Way of New York City (“UWNYC”) collaborated to create the September 11th Fund (“the Fund”). The Fund’s mission was meeting the…
In 2000, the Rural Development Institute (RDI) decided to enter India. This case describes the modifications that RDI made to its model to address the unique aspects of the situation in India, and the initial indicators of success.
This case is the companion to SI-87A. It reveals what decision Unitus leaders made regarding whether to create a debt or equity fund to expand the capital the company could provide to its microfinance partners. It also provides updated information…
Established in the mid 1970s, microfinance provided tiny loans to poor families to help them start of expand small businesses. Thirty years later, the practice had helped more than 80 million people to lift themselves out of extreme poverty and grown into…
In 1913, Benjamin Altman made a capital stock investment (the stock was from his department store B. Altman & Co.) to create the Altman Foundation. Since that time, the foundation has both honored Mr. Altman’s vision of serving New York City’s…
In 1972, Robert Wood Johnson, who built Johnson & Johnson into the world’s largest health and medical care products company, founded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Its mission was improving the health and health care of all Americans. The foundation…
Acumen Fund was founded in 2001 to provide modest amounts of capital, together with business expertise, to help build thriving enterprises that would serve large numbers of poor people. In 2004, Acumen Fund invested in the Series B round of WaterHealth…
CPG Inc. is an exercise for students to perform outside of class in groups of two and was designed for a specific trial section of the Stanford GSB’s “Managing Growing Enterprises” course. The section focused on negotiations.
This case asks students to evaluate how to handle three general management challenges that cropped up for John Stanton, the CEO of Western Wireless Communications, during a difficult period in the company’s history (the aftermath of the Internet “bust”)…
A female HBS alumna is convinced of the market possibilities for a gaming company aimed at Baby Boomers, but is strapped by the demands of her family as well as some potential pitfalls involved with getting the company off the ground. The vignette…
Facebook, a social networking website founded by Mark Zuckerberg, initially targeted the college demographic. Once opened to the general population, the site grew rapidly. In September 2006, Facebook added two features that triggered strong negative…
