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  • 01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion

Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John... View Details
Keywords: summary
  • 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan

carried away by the notion of gaining economic returns on their investments, not huge returns but some returns, as a way of forcing an efficient use of their capital. The shining example was microfinance, which provided attractive... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

organization’s operations more efficient through strategic improvement projects, thus allowing salauno to better serve its patients. Leger’s passion for social impact was itself borne of growing up a citizen... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

to really transform the organization.” That drive for increased efficiency and quality at lower cost resonates with many of the institutions represented at MHCD, which include the Cleveland Clinic, Children’s Hospital Boston, and The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2011
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Making a Difference in the World

“If people want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” — Paul Baier (MBA ’94) The residential sector is the single-largest end-use sector for energy, accounting for 25 percent of global demand. If every US home replaced one light bulb with the... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 20 Mar 2018
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Seeing a Way Forward

Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
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In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership

these countries develop more efficient and equitable ways of doing business," says Leach, who anticipates a career in the mining or energy sectors. In Accra, Leach was part of a student team assigned to help a Ghanaian multimedia company,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2004
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How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

questions, but it’s crucial that they do: How effective are our programs? How efficiently are they executed? Which programs should we drop? Which should we seek to add? If it doesn’t ask these tough questions, a nonprofit risks spreading... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home

conjunction with the Social Enterprise Initiative, gives nonprofit leaders the tools to look at their operations from a strategic level. The giving goes both ways, however. The faculty—including Alnoor Ebraham, Allen Grossman, Janice... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

social sharing platform to help older adults live independently longer and provide tighter connection to family. CareSolver is a startup run by two current HBS students. It activate, educates, and supports the nation's $450... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30 percent on administrative... View Details
Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

at certain set levels. That changed everyone's mindset. At about that time, I started a new course on innovating health care because I believed MBAs who were interested in pricing, productivity, and efficiency could be essential as that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

reader to imagine a workplace where everyone speaks openly about their weaknesses and are committed to overcoming them, where colleagues help each other become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

more efficient process. The big companies, notes Williams, are too big; innovation, he says—particularly these kinds of radically reengineered and modified models—is the province of smaller companies. And groups like the Secklers have the... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

is different in that consumers never have to walk away, as any price they generate will be accepted. Conceptually it’s a very efficient pricing model, but I was curious as to how it works from a practical standpoint. How do consumers... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers

Palo Alto, CA Business management software, solutions, and services Lionel Bony (MBA 2006) Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass and Boulder, CO Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2012
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Markets’ Moral Limits

affects social attitudes about altruism. And since markets may not be the best allocators of goods “on grounds of either efficiency or fairness,” Sandel called for broad debate on “where markets belong, and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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