The Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University (PELP) is a joint initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School, with a mission to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to drive greater educational outcomes. The program is led by faculty Co-Chairs John J-H Kim and Andrés Alonso. John J-H Kim is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School where he teaches the Social Innovation Lab, and created and teaches the second-year MBA course Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovations in Education. He also founded and leads District Management Group, a firm that partners with school districts to help them implement educational and management best practices. Andrés Alonso is Visiting Professor of Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he contributes to leadership programs such as the Doctorate in Educational Leadership and the Certificate for Advanced Education Leadership (CAEL). Dr. Alonso is a former CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools and deputy chancellor at New York City DOE. [...]

The HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is a Harvard Business School Executive Education program developed a Harvard Business School Executive Education program developed with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, an "action-oriented" think tank working toward financial inclusion worldwide. The program is led by faculty co-chairs Kash Rangan and Michael Chu. [...]

Professor Kash Rangan is a co-founder and faculty co-chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. Read more to learn about his latest research with a new initiative called the Impact Co-Laboratory. [...]

Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations (PMNO) is an executive education program jointly offered by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and the Harvard Kennedy School. The program is led by two faculty co-chairs: HBS and HKS professor and SEI faculty co-chair Dutch Leonard and HKS professor Julie Boatright Wilson. We asked Professor Wilson to share some thoughts with Impact Insights on performance measurement in the social sector. [...]

I became Co-Chair of the Social Enterprise Initiative in 2004, when I was asked to take a joint appointment at HBS, bridging from the work I was doing at Harvard’s Kennedy School (HKS) on nonprofit and other social sector organizations to join with the work on social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, performance management, and social sector leadership that was ongoing at HBS. [...]