Social Enterprise Initiative

Careers & Recruiting

Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship


The HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program is designed to support recent HBS graduates who are launching social enterprises — nonprofit, for–profit, or hybrid organizations with a central focus on the creation of social value. The program aims to support one recent graduate each year with a $25,000 fellowship. HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows are selected through a competitive process.


ANNOUNCEMENTS
July 2009: Congratulations to Abigail Falik (MBA 2008) on being selected a HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. Abby is Founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit organization which is building a movement of diverse high school graduates who spend a "bridge year" before college working as apprentices across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Link to press release.

March 2009: Congratulations to Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) on being named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, for her work in launching Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a platform for starting businesses that use innovative, market-based approaches to tackle socio-economic and public health problems in developing countries.
Link to press release.