Social Venture - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

minority backgrounds enter business schools as well as post-graduate employment are soon dashed by an inability or unwillingness on the part of organizations to tap into and retain that talent. In business, the economic and social cases... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Jun 2004
News

The Inner-City Advantage

Investment in the inner city can reap social rewards, but there’s real money to be made as well, agreed panelists at the 32nd annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference. Named for Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), one of the School’s first African-American... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference; Howard; Naylor; Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 22

approach across multiple business units. Social Entrepreneurs as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Sekem Authors:Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair, and Julie Battilana Publication:In Using a Positive Lens to Explore View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

in the past year. The designation is an important one for AltSchool, since it credentials their pursuit of both a social mission and real profits. That dual mission, in turn, accounts in large part for how the company was able to raise... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

08 Oct 2013
News

The Green Giant

Gillette prior to attending HBS, and is known for bringing a business-centric focus to the conservation movement. He credits a taste for entrepreneurship developed in b-school and a bit of luck for his change in career paths. In the late 1980s, he was collaborating on... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; World Wildlife Fund

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2014
News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2006
News

HBS Student Battles ALS

people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health insurance firm, a highly successful Russian health-care View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

A.S.—(Norway)—The Cenapio Project Harvard Business School Case 806-090 Describes the creation of an open source software venture in Norway, Australia, and the United States that lands a strategic OEM deal with a leading Japanese... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities

February we leveraged our social media platforms to celebrate just some of the incredible accomplishments and achievements of our students and alumni. Student and Alumni Spotlights Melcolm Ruffin (MBA 2020) Head of Athlete Content... View Details

March 2000
Article

Strategic Collaboration between Nonprofits and Businesses

By: J. E. Austin

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Business Ventures

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01 Mar 2016
News

Feedback

good feelings and some referrals. For the next few cases, I’m definitely going to implement the [pay-what-you-want] pricing plan: “Because we’re going to be partners in this venture with Social Security, I... View Details

Profile

Michael Maples

has nearly 300 million monthly users and has become a major social media platform.) If this sounds a bit esoteric and challenging, Maples agrees. “The venture business, like the startup business, is... View Details

16 Jul 2020
News

Accounting for Real Change

environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Technology Ventures . In past years, he served as Chair of Harvard's MBA Elective Curriculum—the 2nd year of the MBA Program—and as course head of The Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all 900 1st-year MBAs. With colleagues, Eisenmann... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

management systems for buildings. Tying in a policy perspective, Former US Energy Secretary and MIT Professor emeritus, Dr. Ernest Moniz, presented a perspective of a Green Real Deal that simultaneously must achieve a lower carbon future, while addressing View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech

01 Jun 2022
News

Case Study: Glass Half Full

and CEO, Ranch Road Boots Neutrall is a great idea, currently focused as a D2C venture using Amazon, social media, and other online marketing initiatives to build the business. After the pandemic, however,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

October 2022
Case

Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Chiu and Joyce Kim

Colette Phillips’ marketing firm had just won the City of Boston’s 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Get Konnected!, the networking organization for people of color that she founded 15 years earlier and led to... View Details