Social Cognitive Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2009
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Harvard Business School Selects Inaugural Recipient of Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship

September 1985 (Revised July 2007)
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Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh

Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Bangladesh

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A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details

15 Mar 2007
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Initiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors’ Social Position

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

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Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Development Corporation. “The notion of ‘To whom much is given, much is required’ was instilled in me as a child,” she says. That level of involvement took a new turn in early 2015, when Levy-Odom was asked to add corporate View Details

10 Nov 2003
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The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

commercial solutions to social and environmental problems." The goal of the study was to help IC, whose members collectively invested $80 million from 1992 to 2001, the time horizon of the study, View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities

By: Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and M. Tina Dacin

Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Local Range

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Courses & Case Studies Case Studies Middlebury College: Energy2028 (320029) by Brian Trelstad , Michael Norris and John McKinley APRIL 2020 (REVISED MAY 2021) Not all social change happens with new organizations. Middlebury College is one... View Details

21 Sep 2016
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Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

given at a G8 summit in 2013 and resulted in a report published by the OECD in 2015. That work has continued with the next report coming out at the end of 2017. “We’re looking at economic, environmental, and social challenges in View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting... View Details

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