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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
“I believed a social enterprise company could provide free education to everybody profitably, so that it would be sustainable and scalable.” For Feerick, the pandemic has highlighted the urgency of building an alternative to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
marketing, five days from your head IT person, and so on. Why is this approach an advantage? Three reasons: First, the organizations we partner with get more diverse expertise targeted at their specific needs. Second, for individual executives, we offer the opportunity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
could look like.” —Sara Marcus (MBA 2019), Co-President, Social Enterprise Club Leadership Fellows Program Since 2001, the Leadership Fellows program has placed 173 recent graduates in high-impact management positions with 72 nonprofit... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
from Glassman’s fellowship. Asked why he established the fellowship and what it means to him, Glassman says, “Business enterprises have finite lives. However, I believe that a commitment to social justice will live on through the work of... 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
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Betsy Edwards
as the Career & Professional Development liaison with the Social Enterprise Initiative and Healthcare Initiative in support of their MBA and alumni programs. Outside of work, Betsy serves on the Board of Directors and is the former... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Business Plan Contest Winners
The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and... 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
- 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
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Brazilian street girls gain job skills and start their own businesses. After returning to the United States in 1994, she served as economic development director for Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation in Roxbury, Massachusetts, before launching the Center for... 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
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Planning to ask a big company for a charitable donation? You may be wise to time your request around a huge sporting event—specifically, an event that takes place in the firm's home city. A recent research paper shows that enormous events like the Olympics lead to a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in US Communities
Keywords: by András Tilcsik & Christopher Marquis
- 04 May 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor conditions. The result, say HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 24 Apr 2015
- News
Entrepreneurship Takes Center Stage at New Venture Finale
- 10 May 2013
- News
The “Alternative” Spring Break
- 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