About Us
Student & Alumni Profiles
Jeff Shaddix, MBA 2008
Student Organizer, 2007 and 2008 Immersion Experience Program –
New Orleans: Service and Leadership in an Entrepreneurial Environment
Social Enterprise Summer Fellow, Victory Schools
2008 Dean's Award Recipient (see release for winner profiles)
Educating Leaders
The community around Social Enterprise activities at HBS is a large, diverse group of faculty, staff, and students—there are definitely a lot of people here who are actively seeking ways to leverage HBS skills and resources to have a direct social impact. The Immersion Experience Program to New Orleans , for example, was an organic sort of happening that grew out of the desire of a few students to go down to New Orleans and help after Katrina. Social enterprise at HBS is very much alive in terms of people having a strong desire to address needs as they arise by putting projects like that together.
Career Path
Over the summer, I was a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow at Victory Schools, an education management organization that partners with and manages charter and public schools in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. I was able to see the nuts and bolts of what goes into launching and running a successful charter school and came away with the realization that there's a real need for people who have a background in finance and business to help with budgeting issues and financial planning. One thing that I've learned in the past year is that social enterprise offers a broad spectrum of opportunities, and that an interest in marketing or even investment management is not mutually exclusive to an interest in seeing a direct social impact from the work you're doing. In the future, I can imagine combining my consulting experience with work for school districts, education companies, or foundations.
