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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
But change cannot wait, says Barna, just one of many alumni and academics in the entrepreneurship and investing sectors who advocate steps toward inclusivity like the ideas offered here. “Innovation through startups is shaping the future... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
While studying at HBS, Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990) was also working on the opening chapter of a remarkable social enterprise success story. “Our idea was to call upon diverse young people to give a year of service addressing the... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
marketing in courses with professors Das Narayandas, Forest L. Reinhardt, and (now Dean) Nitin Nohria. Kovatch embraced equally the academic and social aspects of campus life, volunteering as social chair... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development projects for developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
the significant debt that might have hindered his social entrepreneurship goals. The idea for the Fundación México en Harvard was born in 1989 after a small group of Mexican HBS graduates learned a single,... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Club Conferences Student club conferences are run by student clubs. For more information on any of these, please contact the club directly. Please note: conference dates are subject to change and ticket availability may be limited. 2025 Climate Symposium - View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
research and work, in this case in the area of social enterprise and civic leadership, make a difference in the world. The support of alumni and friends advances this work. Through annual giving to the HBS Fund, donors are enabling and... View Details
- Career Coach
Layla A. Ramirez
Layla A Ramirez has more than 7 years of experience leading global, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) initiatives and coaching C-Level executives as they navigate their DEIB journeys. She is well known for coaching the whole person and for asking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
regulatory institutions. The book ends by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
you entrepreneurial.' "From the very get-go, we get very different messages about who we are as economic beings," she observed. Women's economic education, continued Godfrey, a former social worker, "is really one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
conjunction with the Social Enterprise Initiative, gives nonprofit leaders the tools to look at their operations from a strategic level. The giving goes both ways, however. The faculty—including Alnoor Ebraham, Allen Grossman, Janice... View Details
Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
Studies, the Social Progress Index (which he co-founded), and Oxford University Säid School Global Council. He is also a decorated athlete, having won medals in rowing at the Pan-American Games and US Elite Nationals (1991) and placing... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
lets people report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency, and values of bribes and then uses that data to lobby the government. He initially wanted to franchise the site for use in the Philippines, but during a summer fellowship through the HBS... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
job. It shouldn’t matter that it’s not packaged in a degree of four years,” says Rewane, who was recently named a Social Impact Fellow by Gerson Lehrman Group Inc. Her enthusiasm for the project began in earnest at HBS, where she met her... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Passion for another kind of far-reaching change was the driving force behind Diagnostics For All (DFA), a nonprofit offering a low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic tool that won top honors in the 2008 social venture track in addition to... View Details