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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for social needs. Government... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
emergency relief and support community development and civil society initiatives. "There's a direct connection between economic and social stability. September 11 pushed NGOs into the gray area of politics." The View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
much sought-after speaker on social marketing and nonprofit management issues. "Breast cancer creates tremendous fear and panic and claims far too many lives," Langer observes. "But a lot can be done to equip and empower women and their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
for Humanity. Before that, she had worked in the public sector (at USAID), philanthropy (at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and the business world (with roles at General Electric, American Express, and McKinsey). Mercy Corps saw... View Details
- Profile
Lindsay Steinmetz
differing contexts. I also knew a degree from HBS would give me a network and foundation for stability in the future. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals and career path? My experience actually reinforced my desire to continue in the View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 2002
- Report
Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise
By: Lynn S. Paine and other contributors
Paine, Lynn S., and other contributors. "Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise." Report, Conference Board, November 2002.
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
fellows—are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the hiring organizations leverage the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
in corporate social responsibility initiatives all will start attacking social issues in a much more disciplined way. Nonprofits too are very adaptive organizations. I expect to see some common understanding... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
their respective sectors and possible solutions,” says Diagne. The discussions with the public and private sectors were instrumental in creating an inclusive mechanism and enabled Diagne to quickly grasp the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunity to create and spread innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. In doing so, they joined a groundswell of interest in social entrepreneurship. Just as entrepreneurs spot missed opportunities in business... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
socially responsible mission. There is tremendous inefficiency in the environmental community, and one of our goals is to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances between and amongst environmentalists and other View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
passions. I received a concurrent MBA/MPA from HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School and was interested in working at the intersection of multiple sectors to address societal challenges and realize our society’s potential. I also had... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
gave up. What are your post-HBS plans? I plan to stay in this sector my entire life. I’d like to use Catalyst Alliance as a means to attract more MBAs into social nterprise — I want to contribute to making... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992)... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
and the corporate sector in is not easy today because there’s far more sexy stuff to work on out there. I think we have to just persist because it is such a critical area for the country, for just healthy living, clean living, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details
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Private Enterprise for Public Health
By: Michael Chu and David E. Bloom
By many measures, the world today is a healthier place than ever before, yet a daunting set of deficits and disparities remains to be tackled. For various reasons, it is not clear that the traditional tandem of government and civil society are up to those challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Public Sector; Private Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
Chu, Michael, and David E. Bloom. "Private Enterprise for Public Health." Global Investor (Credit Suisse) (February 2012), 14–16.