Unexpected Findings: What Businesses Can Learn from Social Enterprise

September 1, 2010 – 10:17 am

The following is a guest post by 2010 Farber Intern, Janet Zhou. Janet was one of the seven outstanding “Farber” MBA interns contributing time and talent to REDF and the social enterprises in our portfolio this summer. Janet will receive her MBA from Harvard Business School in 2011, and completed a BS in Management Science [...]

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The true engine of job creation…

February 1, 2010 – 10:24 am

Continuing on this year’s theme: positive change: what works….. During his State of the Union message, President Obama outlined incentives for small businesses to hire more workers, and for investors to provide more capital. But the next day when the President was asked in a Tampa, Florida town hall meeting about job opportunities for one [...]

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MBA Student, Interrupted – Guest Post by Stephen McCann

October 13, 2009 – 1:54 pm

Introduction by Carla I. Javits Outstanding leadership is a central factor that distinguishes any successful enterprise; this is certainly true in the social sector.  REDF started its signature Farber Program a decade ago to provide hands-on experience in job-creation social enterprises for MBA students and graduates who want to contribute and learn through summer internships [...]

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