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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance

Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, the HBS faculty has developed a body of knowledge that encompasses leadership, strategy, and governance of mission-driven organizations across the spectrum, from entrepreneurial ventures to more established firms.

Business for Social Impact

Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Today, SEI continues to examine the challenges and opportunities in harnessing the power of the markets to create both economic and social value.

K–12 Education

In 2003, HBS launched an MBA elective course focused on entrepreneurship in education reform and cofounded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This multiyear research project focuses on the management levers needed to create and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban public school systems to drive improved performance and on using entrepreneurial strategies to effect systemic change in K–12 education.

Impact Investing

Through teaching, research and engagement with practitioners and alumni, we are critically examining questions such as: What is the purpose of investing for impact? What return profiles are realistic? How do different strategies actually create social value? How is and how should social value be defined and measured? What does it mean in practice to be an impact investor?

Initiative Chair

Shawn A. Cole

John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration

Faculty

Lynda M. Applegate

Baker Foundation Professor
Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita

Julie Battilana

Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration

Monique Burns Thompson

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Gerald Chertavian

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Rohit Deshpande

Baker Foundation Professor
Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus

Vikram Gandhi

Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Rebecca M. Henderson

John and Natty McArthur University Professor

Nien-he Hsieh

Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration

Reshmaan N. Hussam

Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration

Archie L. Jones

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration

Tarun Khanna

Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor

John Jong-Hyun Kim

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Dutch Leonard

Eliot I. Snider and Family Baker Foundation Professor
and Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management

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Initiative Chair

John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration

Faculty

Baker Foundation ProfessorSarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita

Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Baker Foundation ProfessorSebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus

Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

John and Natty McArthur University Professor

Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration

Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration

Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Eliot I. Snider and Family Baker Foundation Professor and Professor of Business Administration, EmeritusGeorge F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business AdministrationC. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator

Sokoloff Family Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration

Baker Foundation ProfessorMalcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus

Buchanan Associate Professor of Business Administration

Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration

Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration

Baker Foundation ProfessorDimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration

Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business AdministrationSenior Associate Dean, Business in Global SocietyUnit Head, General Management

William Henry Bloomberg Senior Lecturer of Business AdministrationJoseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow

Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management PracticeChair, MBA Required Curriculum

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone.

Baker Foundation Professor
Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita

Baker Foundation Professor
Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus

Eliot I. Snider and Family Baker Foundation Professor
and Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management

Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator

Baker Foundation Professor
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus

Baker Foundation Professor
Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society
Unit Head, General Management

William Henry Bloomberg Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow

Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice
Chair, MBA Required Curriculum