For the past five years, I’ve been developing an approach to scaling of social enterprises that I believe could be a model for significant global impact. My 30-year career after HBS started as a serial entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley, followed by 15 years building my own venture fund. Through it, I’ve been privileged to be a part of over 100 early- and growth- stage companies, as well as teach at UC Berkeley’s Haas School and University of Cambridge in the Entrepreneurship area. [...]

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. [...]

At the Social Enterprise Initiative, we’re incredibly fortunate to have the guidance and counsel of an amazing Advisory Board. Our Board consists of 15-20 members and includes nonprofit CEOs / founders, foundation heads, corporate executives, scholars, and government leaders with expertise in a diverse array of domains and issues (e.g., governance, philanthropy, education, impact investing). Our roster of Board members for 2016-17, whom we convened in early May, includes: [...]

On April 12, Community Action Partners (CAP) of HBSAB (the Boston area alumni club) convened a keynote and panel discussion at HBS on New Paradigms in Nonprofit Fundraising and Marketing. [...]

In early February, HBS co-hosted the second Transformative Impact Summit, in partnership with Bridgespan, a leading Boston area consulting firm focused on the nonprofit sector. The multi-day workshop convened 20 organizations from across the globe to actively engage on how their organizations could make the move from unit impact to systems-impact – in other words, how each organization might transform its business model to truly move the needle in addressing some of society’s most difficult problems. This is an emerging paradigm Bridgespan has termed “transformative scale.” A diverse group of HBS faculty members attended the summit, including: Kash Rangan, Julie Battilana, John Kim, Len Schlesinger, Rosabeth Moss Kantor and Lynda Applegate. [...]