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16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

expectations were." Tips For Aspiring Disrupters Just like other industries, computers and brokerage among them, the venture capital industry itself is also ripe for disruption, he said. While odds always favor the incumbent when a "sustaining"... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Sep 2010
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You’ve Been YouTubed

Art by John Weber Related Links Virtual Learning Series: Understanding Users of Social Networks Career Webinar: Leverage the Power of Your LinkedIn Network Tweets are in the air we breathe. Most of us know that “friend” can also be a verb. Social media are part of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; social media; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services

01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with Boston Public Schools to make... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle

mutual impact objectives," she observes. Seegull brought her knowledge of how to amplify the power of impact investing to her current position as chief investment officer at ImpactAssets, a $100 million donor-advised fund that invests capital for social and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Systems Leadership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

conventional management playbooks. Can a systems approach offer a more tangible way of making interdependencies, assumptions, and relationships visible and actionable? How do leaders collaborate successfully at scale in low-authority,... View Details

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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Advancing Social Enterprise Background I graduated from Harvard College in 1990. I was the first college recruiter at Teach for America with Wendy Kopp and I got to know the people who were starting up the Social Enterprise Initiative at... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

another course spawned by the Initiative on Social Enterprise - Society and Enterprise (S&E), a module that offers lessons about corporate involvement in the social sector. S&E is required of all MBA... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

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Brandon Moore Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025) Brandon Moore 04 Oct 2023... View Details

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

nonetheless offer a host of principles (the Reverend Louis Sullivan's Global Sullivan Principles), management standards (the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability's AccountAbility 1000), best practice guidelines (the OECD... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

06 Nov 2009
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Health Reform Paths Not Taken

health plans would penalize their members for hard-won concessions from employers. Given the torrent of ink and days of air time devoted to both topics, HBS professor Regina Herzlinger offers a refreshing alternative. She sees no need for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations & Institutions Affiliated... View Details

29 Jan 2019
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'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations &... View Details

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The MOC Affiliate Network Impact - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses The MOC Affiliate Networ... MOC Affiliate Network Impact Affiliates, Faculty, ALUMNI & Courses 124 Active Affiliates 786 Faculty... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

undaunted, has since launched Innovate Your State, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting public participation in initiatives to improve government. Its first effort, the Fix California Challenge, crowdsourced... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities Background Over the summer, I was a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow at Victory Schools, an education management organization that partners with and manages charter and public schools in New York,... View Details

07 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 7

Publications April 2015 Harvard Business Review How to Really Motivate Salespeople By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory and lab... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2019
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Alvarez-Bjelland to Receive Harvard Medal

to lead the HAA,” the Gazette article notes, “Alvarez-Bjelland focused on the theme of ‘Harvard Serves’ during her tenure as president, spearheading various public service initiatives including a Global... View Details

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Tracy Palandjian Archives | Social Enterprise