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HBS NVC: One Simple Idea Can Change Everything | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Kim-Parker 2009 As if foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing... View Details
- August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
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Social Innovation at Salesforce.com
By: Christopher Marquis, Marley C. Kornreich and Bobbi Thomason
Salesforce.com recently implemented an innovative social enterprise business model whereby the Salesforce.com Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Model; Information Technology; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges
Marquis, Christopher, Marley C. Kornreich, and Bobbi Thomason. "Social Innovation at Salesforce.com." Harvard Business School Case 412-049, August 2011. (Revised July 2014.)
- December 2002
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Business Enterprises and Global Worlds
By: G. Jones
The role of business enterprise in integrating economies is one of the central historical themes of the last two centuries. Although globalization—both in its current iteration and in its nineteenth-century form—has been widely studied, the role of the firm, as opposed... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizations; Emerging Markets; Behavior; Business Ventures; United States
Jones, G. "Business Enterprises and Global Worlds." Enterprise & Society 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 581–605.
- October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
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Social Finance, Inc.
By: Shawn Cole and Fanele Mashwama
This case begins in February 2019 as Tracy Palandjian, co-founder and CEO of Social Finance Inc., prepares for a board meeting that will determine the future strategy of the social enterprise. Social Finance is a non-profit in the impact investment space founded in... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investment; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
Cole, Shawn, and Fanele Mashwama. "Social Finance, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 219-044, October 2018. (Revised January 2019.)