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- 04 Feb 2011
- News
Using Crowdcasting To Find Treatments
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential. After a decade of experimentation in education and global development, I enrolled at HBS to develop the skills and strategy to bring Global Citizen Year to life. Winning the 2008 View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
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
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
the US through social enterprises and public-private partnerships. Our case serves as a platform for civic engagement – helping business leaders understand how to bring new opportunity and development in... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort
items—the soap and the shampoo—that were most prized by the organizations that received the donations. A social worker from Catholic Charities who called Feingold to thank him explained that few people think to donate such expensive... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
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The Road to Impact
education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance learning. Offensend is focused on... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
in Chilean Patagonia. Drawing on what he gleaned at HBS, he says, "We learned that market-based solutions can be effective and efficient tools to augment the work of governments and NGOs on social issues." Adams, who sold his pioneering... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Amendments to the Clean Air Act. “The Environmental Defense Fund derives its programmatic focus from markets. Markets, in their belief, can create much faster, more complete change than mandates from government agencies and others, not that those aren't necessary. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Several student relief efforts sprang up in the wake of February’s earthquake in Haiti. Partners In Health, which has been working in the country for over twenty years, was the beneficiary of choice for many of the first-year section charity auctions. As part of his... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) launched Hope and Comfort out of his Boston-area garage in 2011 to address the issue of hygiene insecurity in Massachusetts. "If you don't have basic hygiene products, it's very hard to stay clean, healthy, and confident," he explains. "No one... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that end, we hope to find ways to collaborate with efforts such as the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise and to contribute to the development of new nonprofit case studies at the School. View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
former boss at Citicorp, her social worker mother, her physician grandfather, her husband -- she is also justifiably proud of her own accomplishments. After nine years in consumer banking at Citicorp, in 1985 Marshall was hired as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
San José Mayor Sam Liccardo Henry Tsai and San José Mayor Sam Liccardo That chance had come by way of a fellowship offered through HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Lawrence University professor at HBS, for the idea that an enterprise can create value that can serve a social cause as well as a business purpose. Porter’s strategy framework was but one memorable lesson... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful performing arts endeavor and a very successful... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
exhausting days of my life. Suicide is incomprehensible on some level, especially when the individual concerned has all the external indicators of success and accomplishment. What we do understand is that one in four Americans has a diagnosable mental illness, and... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
that we had accomplished something concrete in the recommendations that we made.” HBS professor David Thomas and Social Enterprise Director Laura Moon led the IXP, highlights of which included a three-hour... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
entrepreneurs to become really large and successful,” says Ayala. “The way they create this multiplier effect is by helping scale up a very special kind of entrepreneur that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” Endeavor Philippines... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping smallholder farmers feed the world
create the conditions where that doesn't recur.” A native of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ferrari brings a global perspective and more than 40 years of business and social entrepreneurial experience as head of an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Just Extraordinary
TURNER: A World Cup goal. Matt Mendelsohn The world’s most popular sporting event — and the reason global productivity declines for several weeks every four years — soccer’s World Cup kicks off this month in South Africa. Stacie Scott Turner (MBA ’96) and her... View Details