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- 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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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
Agency for International Development, LAAD has helped establish and promote hundreds of agribusiness enterprises throughout Latin America—fighting poverty regionally in the way the WDC would do on a global scale. John Browne, chief... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 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
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
financial services firm helps small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital and scale their businesses. In the past year NISK itself has grown, and now its team of eight works with 50 clients. Kyarisiima acknowledges the life-changing... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
such innovation is already underway: In early 2020, Chapman introduced its Social Enterprise Academy, an intensive job-skills training program for residents. Despite the obstacles presented by the pandemic, about 30 people have graduated... 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
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in... 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
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
Yunus, who noted that “chasing money is not our life’s mission.” During his visit, Yunus also breakfasted with Social Enterprise faculty and staff, met at the Harvard Innovation Lab with HBS and Harvard College students interested in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
after leaving HBS and have continued their entrepreneurial journey in the marketplace. Will this year’s new ventures follow in their footsteps? You be the judge. Here’s a quick look at the traditional and social enterprise business plan... View Details
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- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative advisory board. Fleishman is a founder and faculty chair of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Based on their collective... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
working for McKinsey and Co. before getting into Harvard. But she enrolled in the law school, not the business school. While Brochu says she enjoyed HLS intellectually, she didn't feel it was a very good fit for her personality. She found that fit when she took a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Bold Idea Takes Off
when she won the Social Enterprise Pitch for Change business plan competition for Global Citizen Year (GCY), a nonprofit she envisioned to provide American teens with a “bridge year” between high school and college to work abroad. Ready... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
podium at HBS on November 9 during the Springboard: New England 2001 venture capital forum to pitch their businesses to some 200 investors in the audience. Organized by the Washington, D.C.- based nonprofit Springboard Enterprises and... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
that inner voice led Ayala to launch Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI), a Philippine social business that distributes solar lanterns and water filtration devices specifically designed for the needs of poor communities. HSSI’s solar supplier is SunTransfer, a social... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- News
Tapped In
company's work with the resin that he discovered an opportunity for a unique social enterprise project. Called Green and Tapped Indian Community and launched in 2010, the program works with indigenous Mexican populations to plant new pine... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
quickly became interested in not only studying the phenomenon but in "actually trying to make something happen." Aided by the groundwork of a number of enthusiastic HBS social enterprise field-study teams, in 2001 Tufano launched the D2D... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan The mission of Educate Girls, a nongovernmental organization in Mumbai, is to get 3 million out-of-school girls in India into the classroom and to provide remedial education. To do that they first have to find the girls, which is a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
earthquake, they were still so hospitable. It was a great opportunity for me to think about how to help them.” She returned to the United States, committed to making a deeper dive into social enterprise work. She landed at the Initiative... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken