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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
results. You will learn how to build feedback and information systems to (a) initially train employees, (b) provide them with direct feedback on their decisions (e.g., through performance assessments), (c) promote peer-to-peer feedback (e.g., through View Details
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Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses - Course Catalog
the opportunity to create and scale impactful business enterprises. However, Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) face economic, sociocultural, and institutional barriers across all phases of... View Details
- November 1994
- Background Note
Social Enterprise: Private Initiatives for the Common Good
Presents a model for understanding how private social-purpose ventures (nonprofit and for-profit) differ from traditional business firms in both their objectives and methods of operation. Identifies six dimensions that are useful for understanding the differences. Also... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship
Dees, J. Gregory. "Social Enterprise: Private Initiatives for the Common Good." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-116, November 1994.
- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
scaling local knowledge. Back in the United States, that realization led Hunt to explore other aspects of the health care industry’s value chain, from billing to insurance to product development. “I loved the sense that I was working in... View Details
- September 2014
- Teaching Note
Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture
By: Joan Farre-Mensa
The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) is a financial technology start-up that has developed a new tool that uses psychometric tests to aid banks in developing markets with credit scoring of business loan applicants. EFL's ultimate goal is to solve the financing gap... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Enterprise Risk Management
firm level. Risk management is a key to sustained firm growth. At Infosys, the most significant risks faced are scaling the company and staying relevant to customers. At GE, effective risk management is based on strong management... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan
- September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
- Technical Note
Measuring and Managing Social Impact
By: Brian Trelstad, Gerald Chertavian and Susan Pinckney
A brief overview of how to measure social impact at nonprofits, social organizations, and impact investments. View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Change; Transformation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Entrepreneurial Finance; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Mission and Purpose; Success; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Strategic Planning; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; United States
Trelstad, Brian, Gerald Chertavian, and Susan Pinckney. "Measuring and Managing Social Impact." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-017, September 2023. (Revised September 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense; shift performance risk away... View Details
- September 2012 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India
By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
mHS is a social enterprise for the provision of affordable housing in India. After India's microfinance industry collapses, mHS needs to reposition itself for continued operations and long-term growth. View Details
Keywords: India; Loans; Development; Micro Finance; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Social Enterprise; Poverty; India
Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India." Harvard Business School Case 813-092, September 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
- 16 Aug 2023
Industry Spotlight: Social Impact
Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth? Hear from the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative staff and alumni focused on social View Details