• 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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Entrepreneurship and the HBS New Venture Competition: It All Starts Here

2013 New Venture Competition Winners

#HBSChat: Social Entrepreneurship Fellows putting HBS mission into action

Read the March issue of the HBS Alumni Bulletin which focuses on creating social value.

Mini documentary series: Follow the journey of four teams in student New Venture Competition

See upcoming events in our Social Entrepreneurship Workshop Series.

Luring More MBAs to the Social Sector
Laura Moon and Margot Dushin
Harvard Business Review, February 21, 2013

China's Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles
Christopher Marquis
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2013

Jobs and Social Innovation
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2013

Replay the Launching and Scaling a Social Venture webinar with Gerald Chertavian (MBA '92) from January 15 and the Creating and Funding Organizations for Social Impact webinar with Scott Given (MBA '10), Joanna Jacobson (MBA '87), and Professor Dutch Leonard from February 14.

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