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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Mitchell Weiss Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) Gerald Chertavian , Brian Trelstad Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 The... View Details

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

with Bradley is his wife, Katherine. During their 30 years of marriage, the Bradleys have raised three sons, partnered to support public education in Washington, spent summers building a family treehouse,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care

products and pricing on the public health insurance exchanges, and co-payment coupons for prescription drugs. Featured Research 15 Nov 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By: Leemore Dafny More Health Care... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Evan Marwell (MBA 1992), Educational Superhighway Chris McKown (MBA 1981), Iora Health Shara Ticku (MBA 2017), C16 4:15–5:30 p.m. Frameworks & Insights Join faculty and practitioners for presentations and discussions on various topics... View Details

June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
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Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details

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16 Oct 2015
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HBS and the Arts

public school students from all over New York City would meet to discuss one or two works of art from the collection in depth. The conversation was moderated by a wonderful museum educator named Rika... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

Ten years before Harvard Business School published its first case study, activists across Europe celebrated the first International Women’s Day. They demanded, among other things, the right for women to hold public office and an end to... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
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City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber

In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details

Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States

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22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

finance patents in the years after the landmark litigation between State Street Bank and Signature Financial Group. We show that relative to two sets of comparison groups, finance patents in aggregate cite fewer non-patent publications... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

the most respected firms in the industry. Focused on long-term value, the group has invested in more than 350 growing businesses and completed more than 125 public offerings. Since stepping down from day-to-day operations at Summit,... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

higher education and beyond can realize change by working with, not against, change-makers even when board members and community leaders stand in opposition. Bold collaboration, significant due diligence, and persistence are integral to... View Details

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

across the spectrum, from entrepreneurial ventures to more established firms. Publications How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations By: Jennifer Walsh 2025 | Faculty Research How do nonprofits use... View Details

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Loeb House | About

reunions as well as meetings and conferences. Loeb’s son, John L. Loeb Jr., is a financier, philanthropist, and distinguished public servant. A 1952 Harvard College graduate, he is an Air Force veteran who served as a senior partner at... View Details

02 Nov 2016
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The Benefits of a Residential Campus

for all of the first year and the first semester of the second year before moving off campus to live with my partner in Back Bay (about a 10 minute drive from campus, a 50+ minute public transportation ride door to door). First, if you’re... View Details

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

these here (login required) . Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program : The HBS Nonprofit/Public Sector Loan Repayment Assistance Program was established in 1992 to reduce the educational debt repayment burden for alumni... View Details

08 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

have a career that spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Through the joint degree program, I am building skills that will allow me to leverage the strengths of each sector to drive economic and social impact. How have you leveraged your unique View Details

19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

low percentage of income contributed) and rewarded the poor (for their high percentage of income contributed). In Experiment 4, participants provided with public education contributions for five New York... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution,... View Details

28 Feb 2019
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New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

firm based in Boston, where he served in a wide range of roles, including managing partner and Executive Committee member. He also served as board director of more than 30 public and private companies. He recently retired from Summit and... View Details

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