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Community Vitalization through the Arts: SE Summer Fellow Tyler Vo (MBA 2025) | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

2014
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Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities

By: Matthew Lee, Julie Battilana and Ting Wang

Purpose: Despite the increase in empirical studies of social enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship

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How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Impact at Scale

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

This article provides guidance to social entrepreneurs and their funders as they seek to advance the enterprise from startup to scale. It focuses on the evolution of four social entrepreneurs and their decision-making paths as they attempt to scale their respective... View Details

Keywords: Systemic Impact; Scaling; Strategy Process; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy

01 Mar 2009
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship

Recent HBS graduates who are launching social enterprises — nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations — may apply for a new $25,000 fellowship. The Social Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2017
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Science for Society: Science and Technology Based Social Entrepreneurship

By: Tarun Khanna, Shashank Shah and Kundan Madireddy

This publication is an outcome of the team's research, engagement and interactions with over 25 science and technology-based social enterprises in India. It provides details on the research process, insightful outcomes and innovative impact.
Throughout the... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Science-Based Business; Information Technology; Business and Community Relations; India

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01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers

the social impact bond, an innovative approach to marrying social purpose with financial returns for investors. Still in the pilot stage in the UK, social impact bonds already... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

01 Jun 2009
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Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

January 2007 (Revised December 2007)
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PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Nava Ashraf and Marie Bell

Senior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest and most successful social marketer with impressive achievements in the field of family planning, HIV/AIDS, and malaria prevention must determine what to do about their slow-to-take-off clean water initiative.... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Health Care and Treatment; Social Marketing; Natural Environment; Social Enterprise; Business Strategy

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17 Mar 2014
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Impact Investing: Patience, Please

Keywords: venture philanthropy; social enterprise; impact investing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

13 Oct 2021
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Executive Education Courses in Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Leadership

September 2016 (Revised October 2017)
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KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (Abridged)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby

A case on scaling social impact for nonprofits. Founded in 1995, KaBOOM! quickly became a nationally recognized nonprofit in building playgrounds with strong corporate partnerships and volunteer-organizing capabilities. Over the years, KaBOOM! developed new programs,... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Social Enterprise; Scaling Social Impact; Nonprofit Scaling; Nonprofit; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; United States

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04 Feb 2008
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Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

The social sector is big business. In the United States alone some 1.5 million nonprofits and other social ventures have combined revenues of $700 billion and control assets valued at $2 trillion—a seemingly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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In Search of Affordability in Miami: SE Summer Fellow Bode Adunbarin (MBA 2023) | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

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Bringing Down the House Prices: My Summer Internship with the Governor of Arizona | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

14 Jun 2010
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The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

of Nonprofit Organizations in June, a joint executive education program presented by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and the Harvard Kennedy School.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

October 2023 (Revised January 2025)
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Ӧzyeğin Social Investments: A Legacy of Giving

By: Christina R. Wing, Zeshan Gondal and Brittany L. Logan

This case explores the work of Özyeğin Social Investments, founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin, one of Turkey's most successful entrepreneurs. With a focus on education, health, gender equality, rural development, and disaster relief in Turkey, Özyeğin Social Investments and the... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Family Business; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Turkey

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