Join us at the 2012 Career Fair!
The organizations represented in our Sunday Career Fair embody the 2012 theme of our conference: Innovation, Inclusion, Impact. Masschallenge, just one of the Career Fair participants, is currently...
View ArticleAll you need is a great idea!
We’ve challenged graduate schools spanning the globe, from University of Hawaii to London School of Economics, and as far as University of Toronto to Texas Tech to have their students submit their...
View ArticleAshoka and the 2012 Career Fair
The news that Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka and the progenitor of the term “social entrepreneur”, would be a keynote speaker at this year’s conference generated a lot of excitement across the...
View ArticleWhat we can learn from successful social entrepreneurs
Guest post by Daniel Altman, Director of Thought Leadership at Dalberg Global Development Advisors How do you take the pulse of a growing field that spans the globe and touches almost every industry?...
View ArticleShared Value Spans Key Enterprise Functions
“Shared value” is a buzz word in the social enterprise space, and rightly so. As a point of pride for the Crimson community, the term was formalized by Harvard Business School professor, Michael E....
View ArticleLet’s talk structure…
One of the first questions that any (social) entrepreneur faces as they straddle the three legs of the stool – business, government and non-profit – remains: “What are you?” In essence, are you a...
View ArticleThe Power of Academic Institutions to Affect Social Impact at Scale
Sita Magnuson | The Value Web Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the expanding field of social impact (including social movements/activism/innovation/enterprise) and have been exploring/examining the...
View ArticleFormer Chairman of SKS Microfinance Vikram Akula Shares Lessons Learned
Vikram Akula, the former Chairman of SKS Microfinance, broke his silence today about the mistakes he made in his social venture, in a speech at the Social Enterprise Conference at Harvard. Akula...
View ArticleBen Rattray, keynote speaker for SECON 2013
Ben Rattray is the founder and CEO of Change.org, the world’s largest online petition platform live in 196 countries with over 120 million signatures. Rattray was included in the 2012 Time 100 list of...
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Why ‘Create. Connect. Commit.’?
The SECON 2013 Leadership Team at a retreat just after picking the theme! One of the most exciting and powerful moments for me in planning the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference was getting our...
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Philanthropy: Love required?
In a recent piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Peter Karoff (the founder of The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI) and the 2008 author of The World We Want—New Dimensions in Philanthropy and...
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SECON: A Conference that Changes the Narrative
By Brian Chiglinsky When I first started with the Social Enterprise Leadership Team, I heard a story from last year’s conference that encapsulated for me the excitement and story-making potential of...
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Nate Silver is a Design Thinker
Nate Silver: Bayes in a new life? You decide. In his new book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t, statistician Nate Silver talks about the importance of thinking...
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Pitch for Change: Tips for success!
As the 2013 Harvard Social Enterprise conference is fast approaching, we would love to highlight one of the gems of the entire conference – the Pitch For Change Competition! Pitch for Change is a...
View ArticleHow can (and should) governments support social enterprise?
This is the first of a weekend doubleheader in honor of it being 3 weeks to SECON 2013! Hope you all have your tickets, and are pumped for the weekend of Feb 9-10! Today, blogger Alison Nichols offers...
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Keynote feature: Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen Fund
A feature on our keynote speaker Jacqueline Novogratz, written by Rudmila Rahman, HBS MBA 2013 and Co-Chair of Keynotes, SECON 2013 is the 2nd article in this weekend’s doubleheader. 13 days to...
View ArticleWebinar at 3pm EST tomorrow (Wed) with Dave Stech, Networking Extraordinaire
Last year, the SECON leadership team asked our attendees for suggestions on how to improve the conference. We found that more than anything else attendees wished they had more opportunities to...
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Sponsor spotlight: Dell
Every year the Social Enterprise Conference relies upon support by outstanding companies and nonprofit organizations. Returning this year as our title sponsor is Dell, a company that takes innovation...
View ArticleConferenceApp: Get it now to plan #SECON2013!
This year’s Social Enterprise Conference is going to be jam packed with exciting keynotes, panelists, and workshops, not to mention all the passionate social entrepreneurs you’ll be rushing from panel...
View ArticleSign-up for Networking events by Friday!
Do you like problem solving in teams? Are you creative? Want to help create solutions to our world’s biggest challenges? If yes, then make sure to sign up for SECON 2013’s structured networking events...
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