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  • June 2008 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance

By: Allen S Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich
Year Up, a nonprofit job-skills training program for low-income, urban youth has run four successful programs in four cities for the past seven years. Now, after an ambitious capital campaign, the organization is poised to grow into a national program in an attempt to... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Quality; Nonprofit Organizations; United States
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  • 02 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education

like lack of political will to drive change. Yet amid these formidable barriers, a set of passionate social entrepreneurs are disrupting the status quo in education with innovative and effective approaches that are producing measurable... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • Web

Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship Course Number 1602 Senior Lecturer John Jong-Hyun Kim Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper For a sample syllabus, click here . Career Focus This course is... View Details
  • April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
  • Case

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)
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  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
  • 2014
  • Article

The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Julie Battilana and Johanna Mair
We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Hybrid Organizations; Nonprofit; Performance Measurement; Legal Form; Agency Theory; Stakeholder Management; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Corporate Accountability
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Supporting social entrepreneurs with tools and services to grow

Rob Panoff (AB 1969, MBA 1973) talks about his work with the Social Enterprise Greenhouse to support social entrepreneurs with tools and services they need to grow. (Published... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • News

Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs

Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2013
  • News

Why business can be good at solving social problems

  • 20 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

emulated? Anything that can contribute to social capital. The content must be easy to create but not as easy as photographing one's morning cappuccino. For example, someone in Toronto snapped a selfie with the controversial mayor Rob... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
  • Web

Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

the critical insights, frameworks and tools needed. Graduates will be well-positioned for roles that demand a deep understanding of leading and scaling social enterprises and designing and implementing... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has studied View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on three literatures: strategic philanthropy,... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
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  • 12 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions

Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis & Sunny Li Sun
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families

income for social-enterprise purposes for deserving families, plus industry, and also the environment. It’s a ‘win-win-win’ solution,” says Arias-King. So far, 2,400 hectares have been planted, but the goal is 12,000—a forest about equal to the size of Boston.... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

Keywords: by Matthew Lee & Julie Battilana
  • 23 Jun 2014
  • News

Halle Tecco: Digital Health Pioneer. Angel Investor. Social Activist.

  • Research Summary

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By: Dutch Leonard
Professor Leonard's research focuses on understanding the role of leadership in the development of strategy and processes for execution in private sector and socially-oriented organizations, including an emphasis on innovation, uncertainty, building successful adaptive... View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Social Business; Social Capital; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Risk Management; Crisis Management
  • September–October 2017
  • Article

Blurring the Boundaries: The Interplay of Gender and Local Communities in the Commercialization of Social Ventures

By: Stefan Dimitriadis, Matthew Lee, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana
This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for each gender influence how founders of social ventures incorporate commercial activity into... View Details
Keywords: Community; Cultural Beliefs; Social Enterprise; Gender; Local Range; Commercialization; Culture
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  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

Enterprise recently embarked on an endeavor to understand the fast-changing and fertile arena of social capital markets. "The question has become, can we extract bedrock lessons from the for-profit world and... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh