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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
700,000 students across the country. The HBSAN honored Nwogugu with the 2017 Leadership Award for Social Impact. The club also honored Obinna Ekezle, founder of Wakanow.com, Africa’s first online travel agent, for leadership in View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
did. Participants with more prior ties were more likely to miss out on peer effects, or the benefits of learning from those with stronger skills. “The whole premise of these things is that you’re going to learn from other people and make new connections,” Koning says.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
“If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the... 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
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
Eligibility Social Enterprise Track Course Listing Business at the Base of the Pyramid (HBS) Data for Impact (HBS) Education Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
level of talent within their budget. The firm is simultaneously mobilizing a part of the workforce—those with a need or a desire for flexible arrangements due to childcare responsibilities or other factors—that might otherwise be left on the economy’s sidelines.... View Details
- 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
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
tiny houses for short vacations, won the runner-prize in the business track. The New Venture Competition is hosted by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative and is... View Details
- October 2002
- Case
New Leaders for New Schools
Describes the founding, early growth, and expansion plans of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit public education venture that recruits, trains, places, and supports principals in U.S. urban school districts. This case presents the strategic, financial, and... View Details
Leschly, Stig. "New Leaders for New Schools." Harvard Business School Case 803-073, October 2002.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping smallholder farmers feed the world
create the conditions where that doesn't recur.” A native of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ferrari brings a global perspective and more than 40 years of business and social entrepreneurial experience as head of an... View Details
- 26 May 2014
- News
Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
Now, consumers learn about a product in different ways—receive directly from the firm through traditional or digital advertising, seek out information themselves through search, or learn from other consumers and social media. Many of... View Details
- 13 Aug 2015
- News
RapidSOS Raises $5 Million to Modernize 911
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Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
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Beau D'Arcy
and social media messages of support from friends, family, and total strangers." How would you respond to skeptics who question whether such an ambitious project is possible? "It is not uncommon for somebody to judge my book by... View Details
- 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
- 13 Apr 2016
Real Students of HBS Webinar Series: Summer Fellowships
This webinar will focus on the entrepreneurship and social enterprise summer fellowship opportunities available at HBS and will include a Q&A with a student panel. The webinar will begin at 4 PM EST. View Details
- 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