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- 24 Apr 2014
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Recasting environmentalism as a smart financial investment
A former managing director and partner for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 24 years, Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) is inspired by the opportunity to help businesses, governments, and environmental organizations work together in new, innovative ways. Tercek left Goldman Sachs in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit
The name William K. Bowes Jr. (MBA 1952) is synonymous with the development of venture capital in America and the rise of Silicon Valley. As a founder of U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in 1981, the late HBS alum launched a long list of medical and high-tech companies,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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The Social Sector Needs to Take More Risk and Accept Failure
- 24 Apr 2014
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Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
the social sector. “We are trying to scale our impact on the world, not just our organizational size,” he explains. Although a nonprofit, Bridgespan has close ties to Bain & Company, where Tierney served as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
association that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs (currently some 1,700 individuals in sixty countries). The convergence under discussion was the overlap of the public, private, and... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
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Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
Amy Kadomatsu (MBA 1998) believes every student can be an innovator and use technology as a force for good. As chair of the board of directors at Mouse, a youth development nonprofit that empowers students to create with technology to solve real problems, she helps to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
through feedback from the judges. The judges included alumni and seasoned professionals from foundations, impact investing, capacity-building organizations, and social enterprise startups. “We received... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
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Thinking deeply about how to have an impact
Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), director of the Social Enterprise Initiative, is helping the next generation of leaders across all sectors—public, private, and non-profit—think deeply about how they can make a difference in the world. He is... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
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Companies must include environmental and social performance measures
- 01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
and leverage the skills and experience of already-accomplished leaders. It will prepare them to make an impact on public life through, for example, leading a cause campaign; establishing a foundation; running for political office as a way... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, left the corporate world to launch Social Venture Partners (SVP) India, which brings together concerned citizens to solve economic and social... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
diversity of professional experiences and personal stories created a great environment for learning and helped me expand my network.” Now a senior partner and the managing partner of McKinsey’s UK and Ireland offices, Hunt has used the firm’s global footprint to scale... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
2012 HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Selected from a competitive process that attracted 19 applicants, Jena will receive a $25,000 grant from HBS to advance his work. Trained as a biomedical engineer, Jena says his ambition is “to... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
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Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview, she describes N/Core’s mission to provide education and... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
How Business Coalitions Can Have a Strong Local Impact
- 14 Jun 2018
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Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
Goncalo Neves-Correia (MBA 2007) is CEO of ThirdWay Africa, an investing and advisory firm based in London, Maputo, and Harare. ThirdWay Africa believes we are entering a new paradigm where sustainability is an absolute. In this... View Details