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Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
One of the primary interfaces between the Social Enterprise Initiative and practitioners is through our open enrollment and custom Executive Education programs offered each year. 1_0fzgdmtm Strategic Perspectives In Nonprofit Management... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Recent HBS Alumni Events Around the World 1 In November, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England hosted its first-ever reunion of local nonprofit leaders, who through the club’s scholarship program attended the Strategic... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
San Francisco Opera
By: John C. Sawhill and Elizabeth Kind
The San Francisco Opera, second largest in the United States, has embarked on a initiative to attract a larger audience and more support from Silicon Valley. Given that the opera's traditional constituency is the older, wealthier residents of San Francisco, this... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Internet; Fine Arts Industry; San Francisco
Sawhill, John C., and Elizabeth Kind. "San Francisco Opera." Harvard Business School Case 300-095, February 2000. (Revised April 2000.)
- April 2004
- Article
Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands
By: John A. Quelch, James E. Austin and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander
Quelch, John A., James E. Austin, and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander. "Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 4 (April 2004): 24.
- 05 Jan 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers
Keywords: Re: Ashley V. Whillans
- May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
- Teaching Note
Greenpeace and WWF (TN)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
Teaching Note for [708418] and [708417]. View Details
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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
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg. "How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Impact at Scale." California Management Review 62, no. 1 (November 2019): 53–76.
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Rye Barcott
in a sustainable way." Innovation for solving problems Sustainability is at the core of Rye's upcoming summer internship with Amyris, a "green tech" alternative energy company in California. "They started as a View Details
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Brittany Williams
those skills and advance more personal interests. “I’ve always benefited from mentors, and now I want to mentor others.” Her personal goal: start a nonprofit mentoring program “to get under-represented minorities interested in science and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Leadership Fellows program, she discovered nonprofit arts organizations as “an ideal way to scale the impact of the arts.” Established in 2001, the program connects graduating MBA students with nonprofit and... View Details
- March 2024
- Case
Negotiating the Gift of Life (A)
By: Alex Chan
Describes a negotiation where lives are truly at stake, where key lessons on persuasion and the role that identity might play in a negotiation are on display through an effort by a frontline negotiator from OneLegacy, the US's largest organ procurement organization. As... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Negotiation; Communication; Diversity; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry
Chan, Alex. "Negotiating the Gift of Life (A)." Harvard Business School Case 924-020, March 2024.
- May 2003
- Case
Environmental Defense
Analyzes the strategy and management of Environmental Defense, a leading environmental advocacy group, emphasizing the group's activity in the energy and agribusiness industries. From a strategy formulation standpoint, the case encourages students to think of the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Energy; Relationships; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Environmental Defense." Harvard Business School Case 703-029, May 2003.
- 16 Oct 2019
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The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance but had always dreamed of working in the nonprofit sector. In 2003, he recalls, “I made this leap of faith, that if I could... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Private capital, public good
US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details
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Luc Sirois
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate medical and IT... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? To achieve success as a business leader and agent of empowerment, I knew I had to learn valuable new skills. My experiences as a junior banker, young entrepreneur, and novice service organizer, did not provide a... View Details
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Andrew Goldin
person. I needed to develop as a manager and leader." When Andrew visited HBS, he saw hard evidence that this was the right school for lessons in education. "Looking over the research and course work, I could see many examples of View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. HEAR MORE Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. A View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1999
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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
- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details