Business Plan Contest
Social Enterprise Resources
This site includes various cases and background readings about social enterprise. For descriptions of past finalists in the Contest, see the HBS Business Plan Contest Social Venture Track Past Teams site.
HBS Resources
- Baker Library Entrepreneurship resource guide
- Baker Library Social Enterprise resource guide, including a resource page focused on Social Entrepreneurship.
- Rock Center for Entrepreneurship: For general resources on creating business plans, see the HBS Business Plan Contest Business Venture Track site; for additional resources for students, see the Venture Creation Program site.
- Social Enterprise Initiative's Social Entrepreneurship resources webpage
Books and articles
- Note on Starting a Nonprofit Venture (Harvard Business school note #391-096)
- Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures (Harvard Business School case #9-391-097)
- John Simon, "The Tax Treatment of Nonprofit Organizations: A Review of Federal and State Policies," The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, edited by Walter W. Powell (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
- Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization, by Joan M. Hummel. A "how to" on starting-up a nonprofit.
- Financial Management for Nonprofits: The Complete Guide to Maximizing Resources and Managing Assets, by Joel G. Siegel and Jae K. Shim. A practical guide for financial managers in a variety of nonprofit organizations.
- The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations (7th edition), by Bruce R. Hopkins.
- How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (4th Ed), by Anthony Mancuso. From Nolo Press.
- The Complete Guide to Nonprofit Corporations/Step-By-Step Guidelines, Procedures and Forms to Maintain a Nonprofit Corporation, by Ted Nicholas. Keeping your nonprofit "legal."
- Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers/Book and Disk, by Thomas A. McLaughlin. Financial management for nonprofits.
Cases
- "CitySoft, Inc." (Two entrepreneurs are discussing how to scale-up their new company.)
- "Corposol" (Traces the evolution of Corposol, a nongovernmental organization dedicated primarily to lending to low-income microentrepreneurs.)
- "Valuing Project Achieve" (profiles the efforts of an entrepreneur to value her fledgling enterprise) and "The Financing of Project Achieve"
- "Explore, Inc." (Documents the creation of a national before-and-after-school day care program aimed at bridging the gap between school and parents' work schedules.)
