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  • 11 Dec 2019
  • News

A Righteous Path

disconnect between those who ran the homeless shelters, who typically had a background in social work, and those who made the decisions about funding and resources in the main office, who typically had a business background. Leimsider... View Details
Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

corollary are the US industrialists of the 19th century, who built legacy charities and cultural institutions alongside their business empires. Outside work, Nisa supports Dasra, an Indian social enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
  • March 2019 (Revised March 2023)
  • Case

Accion's Fintech Strategy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Tricia Gregg
Accion, an NGO, had been a pioneer in microfinance since its entry into that sector in the early 1970s. Its investments in Banco Compartamos paid off, when the microfinance bank went IPO in 2007, leaving an influx of $138 million for Accion. Under a new CEO, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Financial Inclusion; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Non-Governmental Organizations; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Business Growth and Maturation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Industry Growth
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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and nonprofit leaders who are keen... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

Program in response to last fall's terrorist attacks, was cosponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise and International Business and Development Clubs. In his dramatic introductory remarks, moderator Reynold... View Details
Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

harassment – why should I be ‘independently’ appraised by the person who harassed me? Discrimination and gender inequity is damaging to everyone, not just women. I choose to challenge. Over the course of my life, I commit to progressing gender parity: I am currently... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a View Details
Keywords: Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

quantitative and evidence-based evaluation of enterprise performance and to financial valuation. The approach is generalizable to any modern industry and integrates existing well-known frameworks. The materials are consistent with what is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Lindsay Steinmetz

goals. How did your experience as Co-President of the Social Enterprise club shape your career goals within the social enterprise sector? As... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

– Less Info This article explores the impact of social media and smartphones on youth, highlighting parental concerns about increasing anxiety and depression. Data shows high engagement rates among children and adolescents: 90% of infants... View Details
  • Profile

Michael Schrader

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Starting a company for the first time was an intimidating task for me, perhaps even too intimidating without the tools that HBS provided. First, HBS provided confidence by introducing me to a host of entrepreneurs and... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

this article, I outline an agenda for strengthening the links between key institutions. Leaders, I argue, should focus on four goals: 1) linking knowledge creation to venture creation to speed the conversion of ideas into market-ready enterprises; 2) linking small and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofit Summit

More than 275 leaders from New York City’s most influential social service organizations gathered on September 23 for the second annual Social Enterprise Summit, hosted by the... View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

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 worldwide managing director,... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

words, the organization has as its main purpose the advancement of a set of social goals and the creation of social value. That obviously (by law!) includes nonprofit organizations, but it can also include... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2015
  • News

Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

later as deputy secretary of state; guided the citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding and revitalizing following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in establishing the View Details
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

(2) technologies capable of addressing the demands of the new markets, and (3) a new enterprise logic that can link employees, technologies, and markets in new ways. Today's environment holds the potential for these three forces to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential

Believing in the importance of a global experience for young people, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) created Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit social enterprise that is forging a new educational pathway for America’s... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

The New “In” Crowd

Student Interest in Social Enterprise Is on the Rise As I sat in Burden Auditorium on a dreary Sunday back in March, surrounded by upwards of 1,100 students, I wondered whether I was witness to the arrival... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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