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- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
founder and CEO of Social Finance, a Boston-based nonprofit established in January to introduce SIBs to the United States. A companion organization with the same name is based in London. With governments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Although she had nearly thirty years of on-the-job experience, Deborah Richardson still was thrilled to be selected for a weeklong HBS Executive Education course for nonprofit leaders in July 2003. “I had many ‘eureka’ moments when I was... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
possible early in my career. However, I think business school offers a great opportunity to think about one's career in a different way, because (a) we now have a greater ability to add value to a variety of organizations so this... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
through the HBS Leadership Fellows program, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a select group of graduating HBS students to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise
Hampshire, but attended undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At Penn, I double-majored in Urban Studies and Political Science, and spent much of my non-academic time working for an organization that starts debate... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
consulting to a dozen health and human-services organizations, two of which I still work with today. In addition, I work part-time for the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations running an insurance... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
about their managerial challenges. They identified them easily, but most viewed them as distinct issues to be solved independently, rather than seeing their organizations as integrated systems in which these are all interdependent parts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
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 high-impact entrepreneurs in... View Details
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Gerald Chertavian
Gerald Chertavian takes the adage “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” to heart. “Within adversity are the seeds of resilience,” says the son of a dentist who grew up in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Chertavian’s philosophy is at the core of Year Up, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
different structures appear to have different strategic implications, and nonprofits must consider how these implications align with their particular organization and expansion goals. In addition to branch... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
How are the models of strategy that have been developed for business organizations being applied in the nonprofit world? What new strategy models are emerging that reflect the distinctive characteristics of... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based Eos Foundation, a... View Details
- July 1993 (Revised July 1994)
- Case
Greater Gotham United Way
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations
Greyser, Stephen A. "Greater Gotham United Way." Harvard Business School Case 594-004, July 1993. (Revised July 1994.)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
of organizations were very productively linked and in which significant value was being created, both for the collaborating nonprofits and for the businesses." A 1997 ISE research forum at the School spurred... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
running a large industrial organization in India; Arvind adds financial acumen and investing skills from his private equity experience; and Raj has been through the start-up life in the for-profit world. At HBS, perhaps the most critical... View Details