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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
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus Weber, Kellogg School of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Aug 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Parents’ Guide to Harvard Business School
Sure, you're a good negotiator. But could you negotiate a lower price for a soda from a "smart" vending machine? It's part of the world of the not-so-distant future portrayed in a talk by Narakesari Narayandas, associate professor of marketing at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2013
- Supplement
Equitas Microfinance (B): Response to the Andhra Pradesh Crisis
By: V.G. Narayanan, V. Kasturi Rangan and Vidhya Muthuram
Keywords: Business Model; For-profit Firms; Microfinance; Growth And Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Financial Services Industry; Social Enterprise; India
Narayanan, V.G., V. Kasturi Rangan, and Vidhya Muthuram. "Equitas Microfinance (B): Response to the Andhra Pradesh Crisis." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-005, March 2013.
- 07 Jun 2014
- News
Planting for Profit, and Greater Good
- 28 Mar 2013
- News
40 Under Forty: Jessica Tisch, 32
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2020 Goldsmith Fellows
- 31 Jul 2018
- News
Surprise! More People Give If They Don’t See the Pitch Coming
- 23 May 2014
- Video
Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovations in Education: John J-H Kim
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
sales and through its 5 million independent door-to-door “sales representatives.” At a November event cohosted by two student-led entities, the Leadership and Ethics Forum and the Social Enterprise Club, Jung told her audience that... 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
- Career Coach
Kristin Brennan
Kristin (Duke ’03) applies her background as a management consultant, nonprofit Chief Talent Officer and negotiation strategist to her work helping students and alumni chart a course for their career and take the practical steps to achieve it. She looks forward to... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
and climate of bordering Iran, is capable of producing saffron that bests the benchmark in color, taste, and aroma, says the cofounder of the new social enterprise company Earth2Globe. The still-small 1,700 acres of Afghanistan’s saffron... View Details
- 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