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Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022) | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Social Enterprise Visionary

John Whitehead Played a Key Role in Developing the HBS Initiative AUSTIN, WHITEHEAD, AND RANGAN: Social enterprise pioneers. In the early 1990s, legendary Wall Street executive and former deputy secretary of state John Whitehead (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

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Events | Social Enterprise

program for nonprofit leaders explores how to create social sector organizations that can thrive in the midst of change. INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

pursuing career paths in nonprofit, public sector organizations, and for-profit social enterprises which often have compensation levels below the MBA average. Qualified alumni may apply at any time during... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS faculty on a variety of subjects related to the GLF’s title, “The... View Details

08 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise

Date: March 27-28, 2008 Chairs: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald Faculty Summary Report Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise In our working paper, The Future of Social... View Details

Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard

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Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Initiative We educate, support, and inspire leaders across all sectors to tackle society's toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Supporting a Dynamic Community MBA... View Details

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

you have fabulous leadership," Bannick said. "We think it's important to invest in leadership in the social sector to help those organizations to fulfill their potential." VPP's Morino... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

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Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Driving Social Change Background I’ve always been interested in public sector issues and what we call “institutional change,” especially change that breaks with the accepted norms. I studied the English... View Details

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

developing some very different approaches to measuring social performance," he says. "That suggests we might not see agreement on a common set of metrics in the social sector... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

2018
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Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details

Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture

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08 Jan 2014
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Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by innovation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2021
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Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

future involvement in social enterprise? The scale of our racial wealth gap means the private sector must act boldly to advance equity; we need all hands on-deck to make significant, urgent progress towards... View Details

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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and—literally—a common language. To me, social enterprise has always been about finding the places where there is a market failure, where neither governments nor the private sector were operating efficiently... View Details

14 Dec 2016
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Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise

myself and what I wanted and did not want in a role. The most important takeaway from my internship was a reminder for what I came to business school for: finding a career where I could apply private sector solutions to View Details

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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

02 Feb 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services

09 Jul 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan

01 Feb 1999
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Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy

School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. The two-day Social Enterprise Research Forum on Nonprofit Strategy gathered a diverse group of leaders - both practitioners and academics - to discuss the... View Details

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