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- August 2022
- Case
Southwick Social Ventures
By: Henry McGee, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team had found a promising potential investment in Southwick Social Ventures (SSV), a worker and management-owned trouser manufacturer. With a 100% immigrant workforce, the co-operative was focused on reviving... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts
McGee, Henry, Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Southwick Social Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 323-011, August 2022.
- April 2023
- Supplement
Southwick Social Ventures
By: Henry McGee
McGee, Henry. "Southwick Social Ventures." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 823-703, April 2023.
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and second year, supporting student founders in the development of their social impact startup. During the summer of... View Details
- Article
Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures
By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang
Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation
Lee, Matthew, and Laura Huang. "Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures." Organization Science 29, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 1–16.
- 02 May 2014
- Video
Tomato Jos: 2014 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Runner-Up
- 26 Apr 2012
- Video
2012 Business Plan Contest Social Venture Track Winner eTransitions
- 02 May 2014
- Video
Saathi: 2014 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Winner
- 23 Apr 2019
- Video
Gramhal Final Pitch New Venture Competition 2019 Social Enterprise Track
- Web
Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition
Social Enterprise Track Presented by the Social Enterprise Initiative, this track is f or new ventures that create pattern-breaking social... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Bridges Ventures
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
Bridges Ventures, a UK-based impact investor with double-digit returns on its investments, is reflecting on its social impact and pondering its future course. View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; United Kingdom; Financial And Social Return; Social Enterprise; Investment Portfolio; Transportation Industry; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; United Kingdom
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Sarah Appleby. "Bridges Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 514-001, October 2013. (Revised October 2017.)
- 30 Jul 2014
- News
Five Bad Reasons to Start a For-Profit Social Enterprise
- February 2011
- Article
When the Social Structure Overshadows Competitive Incentives: The Effects of Network Embeddedness on Joint Venture Dissolution
By: Francisco Polidoro Jr., Gautam Ahuja and Will Mitchell
The embeddedness of interfirm relationships in a social structure can engender order in new tie formation, but competitive incentives may undermine the order that firms seek to achieve and lead to tie dissolution. We examine how relational embeddedness (history of... View Details
Keywords: Social Structure; Business Enterprises; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business Networks (Research); Competition; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks
Polidoro, Francisco, Jr., Gautam Ahuja, and Will Mitchell. "When the Social Structure Overshadows Competitive Incentives: The Effects of Network Embeddedness on Joint Venture Dissolution." Academy of Management Journal 54, no. 1 (February 2011): 203–223.
- 17 Jan 2013
- News
Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy
The annual alumni New Venture Competition (NVC) is giving the power to the people. As in past years, the HBS regional alumni clubs held local qualifying rounds, producing a dozen or more NVC finalists. But instead of traveling to Boston... View Details
Keywords: New Venture Competition
- 26 Apr 2016
- Video