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- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
Falik's Global Citizen Year continues to grow. Courtesy Abby Falik Related Links Nonprofit founder recognized Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn...
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Marie Kyle
Bain & Co. led to an "externship" with The Bridgespan Group, a consultancy founded by a former HBS professor focused on the unique challenges of the nonprofit world. Within months, an interest that had been a sideline at...
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- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
evaluating ways to better support their nonprofit partners across the country, specifically by improving knowledge sharing across their nonprofit partners and identifying focus areas where City Fund can...
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- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Four Alumni on '40 Under 40' List
Four HBS alumni have landed on this year’s Boston Business Journal “40 Under 40” list, which covers a wide range of industries, government functions, and nonprofit organizations. The list of recent HBS graduates includes: Tiffany Freitas...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A social enterprise visionary
Believing that there was a pressing need for management education that would prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector, the late Wall Street executive John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) inspired and supported the creation of the Social...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Building Community in the Bay Area
Last fall, over eighty HBS alumni and nonprofit leaders gathered in Menlo Park, California, to hear HBS senior lecturer Reynold Levy discuss the relationship between nonprofit CEOs and their boards. Levy,...
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- October 2023 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Governance and Growth at GenUnity
By: Brian Trelstad, Paul Healy and Annelena Lobb
Jerren Chang, CEO and co-founder of GenUnity, had to choose a strategy to scale his civic engagement-focused nonprofit. Based in Boston, Chang could grow the organization there or begin to expand to other cities. He also had to select candidates for a board of...
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Growth and Development Strategy;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Expansion;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Boston
Trelstad, Brian, Paul Healy, and Annelena Lobb. "Governance and Growth at GenUnity." Harvard Business School Case 324-015, October 2023. (Revised May 2024.)
- November 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Daily Table
By: José B. Alvarez, Zeynep Ton and Annelena Lobb
Daily Table is a case about a grocery chain with two outposts in Boston neighborhoods Dorchester and Roxbury. Its mission is to provide healthy food at lower prices to people in lower-income neighborhoods. The case explores Daily Table’s responsibility to its employees...
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Grocery;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Food;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Employees;
Wages;
Employee Relationship Management;
Boston
Alvarez, José B., Zeynep Ton, and Annelena Lobb. "Daily Table." Harvard Business School Case 521-025, November 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- September 2010 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
The Global Sight Initiative
How to replicate a 'one of' social entrepreneurship effort: To cure blindness, Seva took the Aravind Eye Hospital & scaled it up to 100 hospitals globally.
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Social Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Globalization;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Global Sight Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 311-034, September 2010. (Revised February 2014.)
- January 1991 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
Prepare/21 at Beth Israel Hospital (A)
In response to escalating cost pressures throughout the hospital industry, the management of Beth Israel Hospital (BI) decided to implement a productivity plan to cut their operating costs. They chose the Scanlon Plan, an employee participation and incentive program...
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Nonprofit Organizations;
Cost Management;
Employees;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Friedman, Raymond A. "Prepare/21 at Beth Israel Hospital (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-045, January 1991. (Revised March 1991.)
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
New Alliances: Forming For-Profit and Nonprofit Partnerships Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently for-profit firms and nonprofit recipients have...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
and HBS professor Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit...
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Kraft Accelerator
What are Disease Foundation Leaders Focused on Right Now? (pdf) HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research Harvard Business Review What It Takes to Lead a Disease Research...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
left each meeting feeling like a better person,” Letelier recalls. Letelier launched SITAWI Finance for Good in 2008 to recapture that feeling—and to introduce new financial tools into Brazil’s nonprofit and impact sectors. “If you think...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni who are working to make a successful transition. The second program, Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader, was available to all returning classes, and we believe it could become de rigueur for our graduates who are...
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- April 2003 (Revised September 2003)
- Case
Harold Morton and the Rivendell Board (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Ingrid Vargas
Describes what happens as the trustee reflects on his first several years' experience.
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McFarlan, F. Warren, and Ingrid Vargas. "Harold Morton and the Rivendell Board (B)." Harvard Business School Case 303-115, April 2003. (Revised September 2003.)
- June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges?
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
This case describes the movement towards dual-class listings on Asian stock exchanges and the efforts of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA), a not-for-profit shareholder advocacy group, to discourage this trend. As a not-for-profit organization with no...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
Hong Kong;
China;
Asia
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Billy Chan. "Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges?" Harvard Business School Case 121-073, June 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Filter Results: (52) Submit People Alumni Executive Education Faculty MBA Students Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing K-12 Education Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector Social Entrepreneurship Format Text Video...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
would connect the SEI with his own Pennsylvania community. Thun's 2007 gift, an endowed scholarship that helps bring a Lehigh Valley nonprofit executive to the SEI's Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit...
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- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change? Or is it the application of business methods to a View Details