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Tafadzwa Samushonga

investigate market-based approaches to eradicating poverty during her career at the Monitor Group (later acquired by Deloitte). “I did not join Monitor with social enterprise in mind, but as we used the... View Details

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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising

Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge More HBS Twitter: Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education Faculty Accounts Harvard... View Details

01 Aug 2002
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Service Leadership Fellows

The School's inaugural group of Service Leadership Fellows gathered for a Class Day breakfast celebration. For students interested in working in social enterprises after graduation, the new program matches... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

Social Enterprise Summer Fellows program, which debuted in 1982, funds student forays into nonprofit and for-profit organizations focused on the public good. In addition, the HBS View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose

discussion back then.” He thought about his work, about the projects he had undertaken around the world that had left him satisfied and about those that made him proud; and, finally, he thought about a meeting with Vera Cordeiro, a Brazilian View Details

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Enterprise Track The Sacerdote Prizes were initially established in 2003 by Peter M. Sacerdote (MBA 1964) to encourage more HBS graduates to become involved in social View Details

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

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25 Sep 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

their combined creative synergy made the team a runner-up in the 2013 Social Enterprise Initiative new venture competition. “It’s tough, and sometimes I feel like I’m building... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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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

01 Jun 2011
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Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor

Rakhi Mehra (MBA ’09), cofounder of micro Home Solutions, is the 2011 recipient of the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Based on the principles of community involvement, affordability, and sustainable design, the New Delhi–based... View Details

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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

vision is Hacking Heath, a Montreal-based social collaborative that hosts weekend brainstorming sessions, or “hackathons,” to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives. “The end game is to transform health care with more... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

02 Sep 2022
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Strength in Numbers

funding the endeavor, but they have recently begun recruiting 100 founding families to the Goodness Web, with a goal of raising an initial $25 million. The overall ambition, though, is much bigger: In seven years, the founders envision a... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Clubs Hopping

applications and in what people are asking us to work on. I think funders are also paring down their portfolios. Funding can be tougher to get, so people are turning to less traditional models, like crowdsourcing or social media or... View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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10 Sep 2020
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The Business of Access

nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details

21 Jun 2016
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Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide

remote mountain hideouts where many died before relief efforts reached them. “They are genocide victims,” states Aziza, who now works full time with Operation Ezra, an initiative led by the city’s active Jewish community that has raised... View Details

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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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

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