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CLUB ACTIVITIES
The Social Enterprise Club, in conjunction with the Social Enterprise
Initiative, offers the following programs and activities for its 300+ members:
Social Enterprise Conference
The Social Enterprise Conference seeks to bring students and practitioners
together in a large, focused forum to inspire and enable each other to help
make the world a better place. The theme of the 2006 conference was convergence,
reflecting the increased tendency of government, nonprofit and for-profit
enterprises to focus on social problems irrespective of functional silos.
The conference highlighted some of the ways organizations collaborate across
sectors and/or share best practices to create social value, and featured
a career fair, an alumni networking event, a forum to share innovative social
enterprise ideas, and two keynote speakers (Timberland CEO Jeff Swartz and
Bill Drayton of Ashoka).
SAVE THE DATE: The 2008 Conference is scheduled for Sunday, March 2, 2008.
Leadership for the 2008 Conference:
Jen Lee
Keynote Speakers
The Social Enterprise Club recruits a diverse group of leaders in the social
enterprise field to speak at HBS. Past speakers have included Wendy Kopp,
John Whitehead, John Doerr, Michael Porter, and Timothy Draper.
Leadership:
Jen Lee
Interest Groups
The Social Enterprise Club forms sector-specific interest groups to provide
opportunities for like-minded students to discuss, network, and share information
about various aspects of social enterprise including, but not limited to,
corporate social responsibility, education and community/economic development.
Arts Management Interest Group
Leadership:
Jen Lee
Zulema Quintans
Corporate Social Responsibility Interest Group
Leadership:
Yanni Liu
Jin Jeong
Economic Development & Microfinance Interest Group
Leadership:
Douglas Henry
Alex Satchcroft
Education Interest Group
Leadership:
Kate Richey
Maura Marino
Public Health Interest Group
Leadership:
Sonali Duggal
Social Entrepreneurship Interest Group
Leadership:
Shireen Santosham
The Net Impact Conference
The SEC sends HBS representatives to the annual conferences of Net Impact
(formerly Students for Responsible Business). Net Impact is a collaborative
of social enterprise clubs at business schools in the US. It is a network
of business leaders committed to using the power of business to positively
impact social and environmental concerns throughout the world. Net Impact
current has a network of nearly 10,000 leaders and more than 90 graduate
student and professional chapters.
Leadership:
Elana Berkowitz
Career & Professional Development
To support students' career development and job searches, the SEC
develops and distributes its own resume book, holds career lunches during
the Conference on Social Enterprise, and facilitates information sessions
on summer fellowships and the loan forgiveness program.
SEC also conducts a series of professional development workshops throughout
the year that help students develop a useful toolbox of practice leadership
and management skills that can be used for social impact. Topics include:
- Effective non-profit board governance
- Performance measurement
- Strategic planning
- Fundraising
- Grantmaking
- Managerial skills for disaster relief
- Networking in social enterprise
- Career planning and resume building
Leadership:
Elana Berkowitz
Annie Woollam
Stephen Chan
Board Fellows Program
The Board Fellows program trains students on issues of board governance
and prepares HBS students for nonprofit board leadership through workshops
and quality placements on Boston area nonprofit boards.
Leadership:
John McCarthy
Jacob Broder-Fingert
Kimberly Hyde
HBS Business Plan Contest - Social Enterprise Track
The HBS Business Plan Contest includes a Social Enterprise track with its
own panel of judges and equivalent awards. Team members have included students
from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Leadership:
Shireen Santosham
Academic Development
The SEC works with the appropriate faculty to advocate for increased social
enterprise representation in the RC and EC curriculum. Special attention
is currently paid to leveraging the new 25-30-session Term 2 course focused
on leadership, values and corporate accountability, which was instituted
based on feedback from students.
Leadership:
Erika Mills
Social Activities
The Social Enterprise Club hosts a number of social activities throughout
the year to provide members an opportunity to get to know one another. Events
include the SEC retreat and lunches and dinners with other SEC members.
Leadership:
Uma Subramanian
John Cannon
Alumni Association
We have the goal of enhancing relations between SEC students and alumni,
as well as providing continued access to HBS for the alumni. To achieve
these goals, the SEC coordinates opportunities for increased participation
of the SEC Alumni Association in other SEC events.
Leadership:
Stephen Chan
Related programs administered by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative:
Field Studies
Individuals and student teams can earn course credit while working directly
with nonprofit organizations to research and develop solutions for social
enterprise challenges. Opportunities range from marketing plans to strategy
development to applying newly developed business lenses to the nonprofit
sector. Students can work directly with a professor to develop a project
or view a list of already organized projects.
Leadership:
Margot Dushin (mdushin@hbs.edu)
Summer Fellowships
The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise provides financial assistance for
MBA students who work with public or nonprofit organizations for the summer
to encourage student exploration of career opportunities.
Leadership:
Margot Dushin (mdushin@hbs.edu)
Loan Forgiveness Programs
The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise provides debt forgiveness to students
pursuing careers in nonprofit and public sectors after HBS graduation.
Leadership:
Margot Dushin (mdushin@hbs.edu)
The Social Enterprise Club also collaborates with other HBS clubs to co-sponsor
programming.
Interests covered by other clubs and supported by the SEC
Environment (Business and
Environment Club)
Development (International Business & Development Club)
Healthcare (Healthcare Club)
Direct Community Service (HBS Volunteers)
Non-Profit Consulting (Volunteer Consulting
Organization)
Community Grants/ Venture Philanthropy (Harbus
Foundation)
Arts (Art Appreciation Society)
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