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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
and power generation. Helios also annually contributes a fixed percentage of its gross fee income to nonprofit groups and programs in Africa that improve access to education and health care for the underprivileged. Lawani credits HBS for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations and tools. “The data we generate helps managers make the best... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Although Curiel was able to go to college, a basic education for children who live by the cycle of fruit harvests is often out of reach. The nonprofit helps migrant students prepare... View Details
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Rebecca Feickert Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details
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Barry Puritz Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details
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Angel Njenga Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
(photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) (photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) Much has happened in the ten years since Sal Khan (MBA 2003) started making short videos to tutor his niece in math, an offhand effort that snowballed into Khan Academy, an online education View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest
HBS Service Leadership Fellows Program encourages graduating students to gain experience in nonprofit and public-sector organizations through a one-year fellowship program. The 2004 fellows were chosen from 71 applicants. Fellows and... View Details
- April 2000 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
The Holland House
By: William J. Poorvu and Michael A. Everett-Lane
In November 1993, Edward Geffner, executive director of Project Renewal, Inc. (PRI), is proposing that his not-for-profit firm develop Holland House at 351 West 42nd Street in New York City into a single- room occupancy hotel for homeless people. He has put together a... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Welfare; Construction; Poverty; Property; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; New York (city, NY)
Poorvu, William J., and Michael A. Everett-Lane. "The Holland House." Harvard Business School Case 800-362, April 2000. (Revised August 2002.)
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Transforming Health Care Delivery
project sponsors Executive bios Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue Capital IQ - Public and private companies and nonprofit... View Details
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
charity but on the reality that its participants are contributing meaningful skills in the workplace. “In my mind, the progress that we see today in social entrepreneurship is the next step in the civil rights movement,” Chertavian says. “The alliances among private,... View Details
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Jonathan Bailey
through an English/U.S. exchange program and had earned it by being a champion debater at Oxford and by helping found a nonprofit that paired college mentors with high-school students. For a person deeply interested in "the roles of... View Details
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Cristiana Torres
nonprofit consulting firm, FEP Junior Consulting, while she was still in school. "It was an escape from the very theoretical learning system that you have in Portugal," says Cristiana, "and a way to start having a true... View Details
- 14 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale
author Veronique Greenwood, both nonprofits and government organizations such as the Department of Energy estimate that “only 5 percent of plastic items disposed in the United States are recycled at all; the rest are burned up or go into... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Djénéba Gory (MPA 2020) and Anne Thibault (MPA 2019), Suadela builds negotiation skills in teenage girls by training young, college-educated women to become negotiation coaches and role models. First piloted in Mali, the nonprofit is... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
San José Mayor Sam Liccardo Henry Tsai and San José Mayor Sam Liccardo That chance had come by way of a fellowship offered through HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to graduating MBAs who work for a year in View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
- August 2021
- Case
Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)
By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
Elberse, Anita, Briana Richardson, and Cydni Williams. "Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)." Harvard Business School Case 522-020, August 2021.
- December 2007 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life
By: Howard H. Stevenson, Janet Kraus and Shirley Spence
The case follows the professional and personal lives of John and Andrea Rice, illustrating the challenge of "juggling" the multiple aspects of life (career, family, community, self) in the pursuit of a personal vision of success. Particular attention is paid to the... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Nonprofit Organizations
Stevenson, Howard H., Janet Kraus, and Shirley Spence. "John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life." Harvard Business School Case 808-042, December 2007. (Revised February 2012.)
- May 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Teaching Note
Jumpstart TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-037). View Details