Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
Publications
Publications
  • April 2010
  • Case
  • HBS Case Collection

Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question

By: Toby E. Stuart, G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett and Ann Leamon
  • Format:Print
  • | Pages:19
ShareBar

Abstract

Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, must decide the best way to replicate his innovative, award-winning approach to curing poverty. Manchester Bidwell's approach, which provides both adult job-training tuned to fill the needs of local industries and after-school art instruction for at-risk youth, has proven highly effective over the 40 years Strickland has operated it. He wants to replicate this strategy across 100 or 200 cities, but progress has been slow. Is the current intensive approach correct, or should he change it? What would be at risk? How can he best provide his “cure for poverty” to the greatest number of communities?

Keywords

Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Training; Competency and Skills; Jobs and Positions; Human Resources

Citation

Stuart, Toby E., G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett, and Ann Leamon. "Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question." Harvard Business School Case 810-097, April 2010.
  • Educators
  • Purchase

About The Author

James L. Heskett

→More Publications

More from the Authors

    • December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
    • Faculty Research

    Shouldice Hospital Today

    By: James Heskett
    • December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
    • Faculty Research

    The Shouldice Hospital Today

    By: James Heskett and Roger Hallowell
    • April 2024
    • Faculty Research

    Cyrus and Cyrus 3.0

    By: James Heskett
More from the Authors
  • Shouldice Hospital Today By: James Heskett
  • The Shouldice Hospital Today By: James Heskett and Roger Hallowell
  • Cyrus and Cyrus 3.0 By: James Heskett
ǁ
Campus Map
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
→Map & Directions
→More Contact Information
  • Make a Gift
  • Site Map
  • Jobs
  • Harvard University
  • Trademarks
  • Policies
  • Accessibility
  • Digital Accessibility
Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.