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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
which took the top prize in the social enterprise track, seeks to eliminate functional illiteracy in India by enabling poor children to stay in school for several years beyond the fifth grade â¹ a time when many drop out to help support...
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- Awards
Heizer Dissertation Award in New Enterprise Development
By: Andy Wu
Finalist for the 2017 Heizer Dissertation Award in New Enterprise Development from the Academy of Management for “Organizational Resource Assembly in Technology Ventures” (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016).
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- 28 Jan 2022
- News
New Resources for Board Membership
- January 2013 (Revised January 2013)
- Course Overview Note
Running Small and Medium Size Enterprises (RSME) Winter Term 2013: Course Overview and Syllabus
Course Overview and Syllabus for RSME
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Entrepreneurs;
Small & Medium-sized Enterprises;
Small And Medium-sized Enterprises;
Small Business;
Small And Medium Enterprises;
Small Company Management;
Small Companies;
Operations Management;
Growth Management;
Growth Strategy;
Growth Planning And Management;
Pricing;
Hiring;
Firm Growth;
Firm Organization;
Leadership And Managing People;
Entrepreneurship;
Operations;
Management;
Leadership
Sharpe, Jim. "Running Small and Medium Size Enterprises (RSME) Winter Term 2013: Course Overview and Syllabus." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 813-128, January 2013. (Revised January 2013.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Future of Social Enterprise
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald
The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details
Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Performance Effectiveness;
Social Enterprise;
Consolidation;
Value
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald. "The Future of Social Enterprise." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-103, June 2008.
- 03 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Future of Social Enterprise
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
morning known as “Super Saturday,” 63 student teams present these and other ideas in the Aldrich classrooms where other people’s ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges — a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives — score...
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- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
The student body at HBS is incredibly diverse. 34% of the Class of 2017 is international (by citizenship), and over 64 countries are represented. While some international students plan to return to their home countries, many choose to...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise
Date: March 27-28, 2008 Chairs: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald Faculty Summary Report Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise In our working paper, The Future of Social Enterprise, we consider the confluence...
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Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
the exhibit and its themes. Taking a biographical approach, the exhibit profiles women entrepreneurs beginning with Eliza Lucas Pinckney, manager of a successful indigo enterprise in the mid-eighteenth century, and concludes with...
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by Laura Linard
- Summer 2019
- Article
Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803
By: Rolv Petter Amdam, Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the 18th-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic...
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Keywords:
Glass Industry;
Natural Resources;
Profitability;
Political Economy;
Cameralism;
Liberalization;
Patriotism;
Profit;
Natural Environment;
Business History;
Norway
Amdam, Rolv Petter, Robert Fredona, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803." Business History Review 93, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 275–317.
- July 2013 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
TaKaDu
By: Elie Ofek and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had developed an innovative software system that used patented algorithms and statistical analysis to...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Customer Selection;
Business Marketing;
High-tech Marketing;
Enterprise Resource Planning;
Water Resources;
Water Management;
Utilities;
Product Positioning;
Expansion;
Resource Allocation;
Applications and Software;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Utilities Industry;
Australia;
Israel
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and second year, supporting student founders in the development of their social impact startup. During the summer of 2023, eleven student founders...
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- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
A lot can be achieved through emails, phone calls, and meetings, but being in the field helps broaden perspectives. The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) did just that – when Matt Segneri, Director, and Margot Dushin, Director of...
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Nonprofit / Government
- April 2013
- Teaching Note
New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
This case involves the founding and early life of a new bank enterprise in San Francisco with a commitment to the cause of sustainability. It illustrates the opportunities and challenges of banking on values and of specifying and making explicit the practical...
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- June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling
By: Michael Beer
Describes a strategic human resource management process applied at the business unit and corporate level. The purpose of the process is to provide a means for aligning human resource management policies and practices with strategy and to hold managers accountable for...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Human Resources;
Business or Company Management;
Strategic Planning;
Corporate Strategy;
Health Industry
Beer, Michael. "Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling." Harvard Business School Case 491-155, June 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- 2006
- Dissertation
Enterprise Risk Management in Action
By: Anette Mikes
The new Basel regulatory initiatives and a burgeoning risk management literature signify the rise of enterprise risk management (ERM) in the financial services sector. However, very little is known of the roles that risk management plays in organizations and how it...
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- July 2008 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)
By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable...
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Keywords:
Capital Budgeting;
Knowledge Sharing;
Managerial Roles;
Risk Management;
Strategic Planning;
Situation or Environment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Industry
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)." Harvard Business School Case 109-001, July 2008. (Revised January 2012.)
- Fast Answer
Sustainable investing and ESG resources
Information Type Recommended Resources Overview & News ImpactAlpha
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The Brief, as well as their... View Details
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The Brief, as well as their... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Joseph L. Bower, Managing the Resource Allocation Process: A Study of Corporate Planning and Investment Process, (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1970) Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert, From View Details
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by James Heskett