About Us
Initiative Leadership & Team
Herman B. Leonard, Faculty Co-Chair
Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard is the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He teaches extensively in executive programs at the Business School and the Kennedy School and around the world in the areas of general organizational strategy, governance, performance management, crisis management and leadership, and corporate social responsibility. He currently serves as faculty chair of the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management and Governing for Nonprofit Excellence Executive Education programs and the New Orleans Immersion: Service and Leadership in an Entrepreneurial Environment.
V. Kasturi Rangan, Faculty Co-Chair
V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, where he served as chair of the Marketing Department from 1998-2002. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA courses, including the core first-year Marketing course and the second-year electives Business Marketing and Channels-to-Market. He has also taught marketing in the School's Advanced Management Program for senior managers. He currently co-teaches the second-year MBA elective course, Business at the Base of the Pyramid. Additionally, he is faculty chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Executive Education program and teaches in a number of other focused executive programs, including Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management.
Laura U. Moon, Director
Laura Moon joined Harvard Business School as Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative in 2005. She oversees the Initiative's strategic and operational goals, including MBA student programming, alumni outreach, executive education programming, and social enterprise faculty research and curriculum support. Laura received her BA from Harvard College and her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she served as student co-chair of the Public Management Program. Prior to joining HBS, she led a nonprofit pro bono management consulting organization, and worked as a marketing and strategy consultant serving medium and small-sized firms in the nonprofit, management consulting, and high-tech industries.
Margot Dushin, Director of Programs
Margot Dushin joined the Social Enterprise Initiative in 1996. Margot plays a principal role in the Social Enterprise Initiative's MBA Program activities, working with prospective and current students interested in social enterprise, leading social enterprise field-based and career efforts, and helping practitioners interact with students in a variety of ways in order to meet their organizations' goals. Before joining Social Enterprise, she worked in the School's Publications and Communications Office on publishing and technology projects. She graduated from Syracuse University cum laude with a dual degree in communications and English literature.
Keri Santos, Assistant Director
Keri Santos manages the Social Enterprise Executive Education programs, which are designed to provide practitioners with opportunities to enhance their management, governance, and entrepreneurial capabilities and to achieve high performance in their organizations. She also serves as the Initiative's business manager. Before joining HBS, Keri developed and managed a portfolio of educational internship and fellowship programs for the Environmental Careers Organization (ECO), a Boston-based nonprofit. Keri received a BA in Sociology from Cornell University.
Maria Torres, Coordinator
Maria Torres supports the core activities of the Social Enterprise Initiative, facilitating the coordination of MBA Program activities, executive education programming, event planning, and general administration. Before joining the Social Enterprise group, Maria was the coordinator for environmental justice and nonprofit internship programs at the Environmental Careers Organization (ECO), a Boston-based nonprofit. Maria has also worked with local communities as an interpreter for Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Legal Services Center. She received her BA in history from the University of Massachusetts.
