• 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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featured publications

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More than 90 HBS faculty engage in social enterprise research and teaching.

News & Events

"Using Business Tools To Combat The World's Big Problems," Prof. Julie Battilana and
Robert Higgins
NPR "Innovation Hub," February 4, 2012

Developing an Effective Social Enterprise Business Plan Webinar,"Prof. Allen Grossman
February 16, 2012, 10:00 - 11:00 am

"Developing an Effective Social Enterprise Business Plan," Prof. Allen Grossman
February 14, 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Harvard i-Lab Northwest Corner

"Designing Leading-Edge Social Ventures,"
Jim Bildner, The Hauser Center for Nonprofits
February 29, 5:00 - 6:15 pm, Harvard i-Lab

Pine Street Inn goes into corporate catering
Alnoor S. Ebrahim
Boston Globe, January 25, 2012

Business the solution to social inequities
Joseph L. Bower
Globe and Mail, January 11, 2012

HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship
Application deadline February 29, 2012

Is sustainability now the key
to corporate success?
Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim
The Guardian, January 6, 2012

Social Enterprise Startup Perspectives Recap
Harbus, December 6, 2011

2012 Social Enterprise Conference
Feb 25-26, 2012, HBS and HKS
Registration open for student-led conference

"Grads Do 'Good' for a Profit"
Alla Jezmir (MBA '09), Laura Moon
Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2011

Plan now to hire an HBS student as a 2012 summer associate at your organization.

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Working Knowledge

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors' Prison, February 2, 2012

Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials, January 20, 2012

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs, January 18, 2012

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