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2010 MBA and NewSchools' education entrepreneur Scott Given believes "... The opportunities for what entrepreneurs can do in the education space is truly limitless... I am an education entrepreneur because I don't think there is another profession out there where one can have such a transformative impact in the world as we know it today."

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Jennifer Houston (MBA '05), John Kim (MBA '08), Andrew Murphy (MBA '07), Roshini Moodley Naidoo (MBA '07), Cindy Song (MBA '07)

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BOSTON, April 29, 2010 - Teams of student entrepreneurs aiming to ensure clean energy and clean water took first-place prizes on Tuesday (April 27) in the final round of Harvard Business School's 14th annual Business Plan Contest. The contest awards a total of $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to the winners and runners-up in the business venture and social venture tracks.

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BOSTON, April 26, 2010 - After receiving their diplomas this summer, eleven members of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2010 will begin working in nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the help of the School's Leadership Fellows Program. Now in its ninth year, the program provides Fellows with a one-year position in a nonprofit or public-sector organization where they can make a significant impact. Participating organizations pay Fellows $45,000, and Harvard Business School (HBS) supplements that with a one-year grant of an equal amount.

04/26/2010

BOSTON, April 22, 2010--On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, three Harvard Business School faculty members share their views on the sustainability-related challenges and opportunities facing today's business leaders.

04/22/2010

2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula

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BOSTON, March 2, 2010 - Nearly 1,400 people flocked to the campuses of the Harvard Business and Harvard Kennedy Schools for the weekend of February 27th to attend the 11th annual Harvard Social Enterprise Conference, the largest student run conference of its kind. The conference theme, "New Frontiers: Redefining Service for the 21st Century," challenged the participants - including numerous students, alumni, practitioners and leaders in the field - to use the conference as a means to explore the role of service in their own lives and in the business endeavors they undertake.

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BOSTON, Jan. 13, 2010 - Harvard Business School (HBS) is enhancing its MBA curriculum by offering a range of intensive seminars, independent opportunities, and an expanded Immersion Experience Program (IXP) during a new January Term between the fall and winter semesters. HBS is among the first Harvard schools to pilot the new term at the University in conjunction with Harvard's move to a common calendar this academic year.

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HBS students pursue less traditional employment tracks across the seven continents.

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BOSTON, August 10, 2009 — Launched in 1995, the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Executive Education program enables leaders in the nonprofit sector to take a step back from their day-to-day operations, reflect on their organization's mission, and develop new strategic frameworks and implementation plans.

08/10/2009

BOSTON, July 20, 2009 - Abigail Falik (MBA 2008), Founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is selected as the 2009-10 HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow.

07/20/2009

BOSTON, June 4, 2009 - This year's Harvard Business School graduates will step into a job market they did not anticipate two years ago when submitting their application to the MBA program. Because of the economic crisis, the landscape for MBAs has changed significantly and with that, so have employment opportunities.

06/04/2009

BOSTON, April 28, 2009 -- In a series of lively presentations yesterday in Burden Auditorium, teams of students presented their ideas and dreams for entrepreneurial success at the final round of Harvard Business School's 13th annual Business Plan Contest. A record 93 teams entered the contest when it officially began in January. Over time, panels of judges from fields such as venture capital, consulting, law, accounting, life sciences, and high technology reduced the field to the eight semifinalists who competed on Monday - four in the traditional for-profit track and four in the social enterprise track, which focuses creating social value and may include nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid business plans.

05/28/2009

BOSTON, May 26, 2009 - Six members of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2009 have been named winners of the School's prestigious Dean's Award. The recipients, who will be recognized by HBS Dean Jay Light at Commencement ceremonies on June 4th on the HBS campus, are Andrew Goldin, Garrett Smith, and the team of Rye Barcott, Alex Ellis, Neil Wagle, and Kate Wattson.

05/26/2009

BOSTON, March 25, 2009 - Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) has been named the first Harvard Business School Social Entrepreneurship Fellow for her work in launching Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE). SHE is a platform for starting businesses that use innovative, market-based approaches to tackle socio-economic and public health problems in developing countries. Scharpf started SHE in late 2007 based on the belief that charitable efforts alone are not enough to address the breadth and complexity of socio-economic and health problems that exist in developing countries.

05/25/2009

BOSTON, April 27, 2009 -- Participants in this afternoon's 13th annual Harvard Business School Business Plan Contest don't have to look back very far for inspiration. Last year's winner in the Social Enterprise track, Diagnostic-For-All (DFA), won kudos for a revolutionary, inexpensive product designed to diagnose certain common diseases in developing countries. Patients simply put their fingertip on a specially treated piece of paper. DFA scored another coup when it went on to capture first place in MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition as well.

04/27/2009

BOSTON, April 1, 2009 - James E. Austin, the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has been named a winner of a 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award in Social Entrepreneurship by Ashoka, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs, and the Aspen Institute, which equips business leaders for the 21st century with the vision and knowledge to integrate corporate profitability and social value.

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BOSTON, Feb 9, 2009 - The U.S. health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford health care, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen - author of the pioneering bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, now offers his diagnosis of this acute problem in his new book, The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw Hill).

02/09/2009

BOSTON, Feb. 3, 2009 - The 10th Annual Social Enterprise Conference, presented jointly by the Social Enterprise Club of Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School, has been named one of Forbes.com's Top Executive Gatherings for 2009 - alongside several other major international conferences including the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.

02/03/2009

BOSTON, Jan. 21, 2009 - Traditionally, the phrase "winter break" denotes relaxation - a rest for the mind between the semesters of a school year. Yet for some Harvard Business School (HBS) students, this year's break involved stimulating field work in locations such as Israel, Mexico, and New Orleans. More than 320 first- and second- year Harvard MBA students participated in this year's Immersion Experience Program (IXP), which maximizes participant-centered learning by integrating HBS's distinctive case method of instruction with field-based learning. Each IXP group is anchored by the expertise of one or more faculty members who develop the program content and lead the various activities.

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BOSTON, January 5, 2009 - The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) announced today that Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980), chairman and co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, will succeed John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947) as chair of the SEI Advisory Board. Tierney is a widely recognized leader in the nonprofit sector, and since cofounding the Bridgespan Group in 1999, he has focused on bringing leading-edge strategies and tools to the challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations and philanthropy. As chair of the SEI Advisory Board, Tierney will work with the SEI leadership team to develop strategies to advance the work of the Initiative, maintain and build upon connections with the field of practice, and ensure that SEI continues to operate at and advance the frontiers of knowledge in the private, non-profit and public sectors in applying management skills to create social value.

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