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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofit Summit
More than 275 leaders from New York City’s most influential social service organizations gathered on September 23 for the second annual Social Enterprise Summit, hosted by the HBS Club of Greater New York. The half-day event focused on... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Four Alumni on '40 Under 40' List
wealth-management firm Nicole Marie Ledoux (MBA 2008), cofounder and CEO of 88 Acres, maker of healthy, non-GMO snacks Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), director of the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School Femi Allen Wasserman... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Fellowship to Honor Professor Jim Austin
Efforts are under way to create an endowed MBA fellowship to honor Professor Emeritus James E. Austin, cofounder and former chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. A member of the HBS faculty since 1972, Austin is a leading expert... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Start Me Up
business or a social enterprise track, the fledgling companies pitched everything from early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis technology to environmentally friendly lodging. Below, the four that the competition's alumni judges—plucked from the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
Second-year student Carlin (“Carly”) Janson divides her time between studying at HBS and managing the Catalyst Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship (Catalyst Alliance), the Cambridgebased social enterprise consultancy she founded while... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
Social Enterprise Initiative, to his work with the United Nations Association, the International Rescue Committee, and the Brookings Institute. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
"It's nice to seed growth like this. All I've really done is to start the plant." — Ferdinand Thun (MBA 1960) Looking back over the two-decade history of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), former director Laura Moon says "alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
academics, and business leaders, including former Goldman Sachs cochairman and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), the driving force behind the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS. Also taking part were more than... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Supporting social entrepreneurs with tools and services to grow
Rob Panoff (AB 1969, MBA 1973) talks about his work with the Social Enterprise Greenhouse to support social entrepreneurs with tools and services they need to grow. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
wealth to those at the bottom of the pyramid," she says. In 2002, Seegull left Novica to consult at various impact enterprises and several philanthropic family foundations. Four years later, she joined Funk Ventures as COO and managing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Prize for Nonprofit Paper
“Managing Multi-Site Nonprofits,” by HBS professors Allen S. Grossman and V. Kasturi Rangan, has received the annual Editors’ Prize for the Best Scholarly Paper in the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership for 2002. This paper emerged from the School’s 1998... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
framework. Both organizations add value to society. They just do it in different ways. In short, there is much overlap between the skills needed and perspectives provided by leaders in the two types of organizations. This is a key reason why social View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
a new asset class: impact investment. In a recent commentary published by Reuters, Cohen wrote: “Just as hi-tech business enterprise and venture capital, working in tandem, have attracted increasing numbers of talented risk-takers since... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
these relationships began to cross the line from traditional philanthropy to more strategic and mutually beneficial alliances, HBS professor James E. Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
teenager, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) tried to join the Peace Corps upon graduating from high school, only to be rejected because of her age. Some years later, that rejection spurred Falik to develop an idea that in 2008 won the Pitch for Change competition, a part of the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
performance challenges are at the heart of the enterprise rather than an external force to be dealt with. In other words, in public school districts, an improvement strategy works from the inside out, rather than outside in. The classroom... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
Sion Tesone (OPM 43, 2013) is the founder & CEO of Amani Enterprises, LLC, which operates the for-profit social enterprise TISSINI. In this interview, he talks about TISSINI’s aims to empower Hispanic women through friend-to-friend retail... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a social View Details