• What lessons can we learn from the for-profit world, and how do we apply them to philanthropy?

    Professor Grossman partnered with Tennessee-based Youth Villages to reveal the complex dynamics nonprofit organizations must navigate to effectively scale their work with multiple state governments.

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  • HBS helped me approach Global Citizen Year in a much more strategic way.

    Through a summer fellowship, a field study, and the Social Venture Track of the Business Plan Contest, Abby Falik developed skills here that have been critical to her work launching Global Citizen Year.

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  • To create real networks... you need to trust the people, trust the process.

    With support and leadership of HBS students and alumni, Nancy Barry built Women’s World Banking and now Enterprise Solutions to Poverty into networks of banks and companies that engage millions of poor people as suppliers, distributors, and customers.

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  • I discovered new models and frameworks that will guide us as we execute upon our mission.

    Following the completion of a nonprofit merger, Charles Edwards attended the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive education program to help formulate a new strategy for the combined organization.

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News & Events

Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations
May 29-June 1, 2012
Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA

Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management
July 15-21, 2012
HBS Campus

Social Entrepreneurship: In Search of Hybrid Ideal
Julie Battilana & Matthew Lee, with Echoing Green researchers
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2012

Congratulations to winner and runner-up of the
HBS Business Plan Contest Social Venture Track!

Congratulations to winner and honorable mention of the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship!

Social Entrepreneurs Try to Offer Solutions to K-12 Problems
Allen Grossman, John J-H Kim
Education Week, April 24, 2012

Heroic vs. Homegrown Entrepreneurs?
Julie Battilana
Huffington Post, April 10, 2012

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