Social Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2011
News

Two Kinds of Green

Art by Jude Maceren/Corbis Related Links "Burt's Bee's Social and Environmental Report Fiscal Year 2010" - Yola Carlough, Director of Sustainability at Burt's Bees, describes how participating in the HBS multimedia case influenced the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Apr 2022
News

Funding His Purpose

Leonardo Letelier (photo by Paula Giolito) Leonardo Letelier (MBA 2002) was looking for purpose in his career when he launched SITAWI Finance for Good in Brazil in the mid-2000s. The nonprofit, an early participant in what is now called View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

leaders together to help communities of color across Massachusetts achieve social gains through economic investment.” Seeding Progress Like the Massachusetts-centered NCF, the nationally focused ARF began as a response to last spring’s... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

social, and financial performance. Those societal pressures are absolutely critical. Look at the level of inequality and the impacts of climate change—the system is not sustainable, it has to change. Maybe decades ago people thought of... View Details

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

07 Sep 2021
News

Funding His Purpose

markets. Letelier’s original vision for SITAWI—which means “to develop and flourish” in Swahili—was as a lender. He would solicit grants the organization would in turn use to give loans to nonprofits. “My pitch to the donor was, ‘If you make a grant to us, we’ll... View Details

16 Sep 2019
News

Smarter Farming

Zealand is a contributor, now, towards climate change, with so much of our animals contributing to global warming. And people were becoming very skeptical and cynical about farming's role in New Zealand society, given the social View Details

Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture

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Nicolás Jodal

Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, highlights the importance of inclusive education and long-term investments in technological advancement for societal development, with examples from Uruguay's history. View Details

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

to make informed decisions about treatment. To date, the Brain Tumor Network’s nurse navigators and social workers have helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag’s people-first ethos also guides the selection of the... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 Jan 2021
News

Holding Business to Account

before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s... View Details

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

estimates are often wildly divergent. Organizations also need to look at their activities, and really map out how much each of these activities is costing them. How do you take available resources and achieve maximum social View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Badreddine Ouali

Badreddine Ouali, Founder and Co-CEO of Vermeg, shares the goals and accomplishments of the Tunisia Foundation for Development, which he established in 2016 to support entrepreneurship, employment, and training for Tunisian youth. View Details

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Dr. R.S. Sodhi

Dr. R.S. Sodhi, former Managing Director of GCMMF (Amul), describes how the organization's cooperative structure has helped farmers improve their socio-economic status. View Details

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Dr. Ahmed Heikal

Dr. Ahmed Heikal, Chaiman and Founder of Qalaa Holdings, speaks about the firm's foundation, in addition to outlining other education and development programs instituted by subsidiaries such as ERC (Egyptian Refining Company). View Details

04 Feb 2020
Video

Dr. Manu Chandaria

Manu Chandaria, Chair of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft, discusses how businesses should look at “profit as a means, not the end.” He assets that the purpose of profit is to improve the... View Details

20 Nov 2019
Video

Shamlu Dudeja

Shamlu Dudeja, founder of Malika’s Kantha Collection and Chair of SHE Foundation based in Kolkata, India describes how she reinvented the traditional sewing craft of kantha to make luxury and art products. She... View Details

02 Dec 2019
Video

Ratan Naval Tata

Ratan Naval Tata, Chair of Tata Trust and Former Chair of Tata Group in India, explains his belief that corporations must become a part of, and engage with, the communities in which they operate.

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