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Social Enterprise & Nonprofits Programs

27 Aug 2015
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MBA student starts up a social enterprise

2021
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Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises

I present a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. I characterize the optimal scale and structure of a social enterprise when financed by grants, and when financed by investments. Impact... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Mathematical Methods

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12 Nov 2014
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Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions

Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis & Sunny Li Sun

28 Jun 2021
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Social Enterprise Industry Spotlight

19 Jun 2013
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Your Guide to Social Enterprise

over the last two decades. A nonprofit innovator and think-tank scholar, Keohane knows the field well. Now, in her first book, Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century, this adjunct professor in the Program on View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 May 2016
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Inside Harvard’s Social Enterprise Initiative

20 Nov 2014

Prospective Student Lunch: Social Enterprise

Join members of the Social Enterprise Initiative to learn more about the resources at HBS for MBA students who have an interest in Social Enterprise. View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in establishing the Social View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise Institute; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Social Enterprise Fall in Review | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

09 Apr 2008
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Melinda Gates Comments on the Future of Social Enterprise

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Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Initiative We educate, support, and inspire leaders across all sectors to tackle society's toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Supporting a Dynamic Community MBA... View Details

25 Feb 2015

Social Enterprise at HBS Webinar

This webinar will provide an overview of the resources available at HBS to students coming from (or who are interested in pursuing a career in) social enterprise. A member of our Career and Professional Development Office will review... View Details

2014
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Communicating Change: When Identity Becomes a Source of Vulnerability for Institutional Challengers

By: Ryann Elizabeth Manning, Julie Battilana and Lakshmi Ramarajan

Social movements challenge institutions through two related communication processes: articulating collective action frames and constructing collective movement identity. We argue that frames not only express movement identity, but also provide openings through which... View Details

Keywords: Identity Threat; Institutional Change; Social Movements; Framing; Social Issues; Identity; Organizational Culture; Change

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18 Nov 2014
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Promoting social enterprise in business

Aurora Rotes Casanova (MBA 2009) is helping promote more socially oriented projects inside companies and calculating their value. (Published November 2014) View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy

School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. The two-day Social Enterprise Research Forum on Nonprofit Strategy gathered a diverse group of leaders - both practitioners and... View Details

06 Aug 2013

Social Enterprise at HBS Webinar

Please join staff, students, and alumni from the Social Enterprise Initiative for a webinar on Social Enterprise at HBS. There will be a brief... View Details