Social Venture - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2022
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Southwick Social Ventures

By: Henry McGee, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team had found a promising potential investment in Southwick Social Ventures (SSV), a worker and management-owned trouser manufacturer. With a 100% immigrant workforce, the co-operative was focused on reviving... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts

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April 2023
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Southwick Social Ventures

By: Henry McGee

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14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and second year, supporting student founders in the development of their social impact startup. During the summer of... View Details

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2010 HBS Social Venture Track Business Plan Winners

02 May 2014
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Tomato Jos: 2014 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Runner-Up

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Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures

By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang

Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation

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26 Apr 2012
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2012 Business Plan Contest Social Venture Track Winner eTransitions

02 May 2014
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Saathi: 2014 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Winner

October 2013 (Revised October 2017)
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Bridges Ventures

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby

Bridges Ventures, a UK-based impact investor with double-digit returns on its investments, is reflecting on its social impact and pondering its future course. View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; United Kingdom; Financial And Social Return; Social Enterprise; Investment Portfolio; Transportation Industry; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; United Kingdom

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23 Apr 2019
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Gramhal Final Pitch New Venture Competition 2019 Social Enterprise Track

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Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition

Social Enterprise Track Presented by the Social Enterprise Initiative, this track is f or new ventures that create pattern-breaking social... View Details

30 Jul 2014
News

Five Bad Reasons to Start a For-Profit Social Enterprise

Keywords: business model; venture philanthropy; social enterprise

22 Apr 2015
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FOCUS Foods Inc. wins 2015 New Venture Competition social enterprise track

February 2011
Article

When the Social Structure Overshadows Competitive Incentives: The Effects of Network Embeddedness on Joint Venture Dissolution

By: Francisco Polidoro Jr., Gautam Ahuja and Will Mitchell

The embeddedness of interfirm relationships in a social structure can engender order in new tie formation, but competitive incentives may undermine the order that firms seek to achieve and lead to tie dissolution. We examine how relational embeddedness (history of... View Details

Keywords: Social Structure; Business Enterprises; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business Networks (Research); Competition; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks

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01 Mar 2014
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The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy

The annual alumni New Venture Competition (NVC) is giving the power to the people. As in past years, the HBS regional alumni clubs held local qualifying rounds, producing a dozen or more NVC finalists. But instead of traveling to Boston... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition