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Jane Wei-Skillern is an Assistant Professor of Business
Administration in the General Management Unit and Social Enterprise
Group at the Harvard Business School. She teaches her MBA elective,
Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector at Harvard Business School
and the Kennedy School of Government. She also teaches in the HBS
Social Enterprise executive education program, Strategic
Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM). Professor Wei-Skillern
earned her B.S. in Business from the Haas School of Business at the
University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. in Business Research
and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, both from the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University. Prior to joining the
faculty at Harvard, she was an Assistant Professor of
Organizational Behavior at London Business School.
Professor Wei-Skillern′s research is focused in the field of Social
Enterprise. Her research has examined the topics of nonprofit
growth and management of multisite nonprofits, and most recently
has been focused on nonprofit networks. She is currently studying
how building a range of strategic networks can be a powerful lever
for nonprofits to achieve greater social impact. A strategic
network is distinguished from traditional partnership approaches in
that it entails a shift in mindset from the organization as the hub
for social value creation, to the organization as a node within a
larger network of critical and complementary entities that must
work collaboratively to achieve mission impact. Her research
explores how trust based strategic networks that leverage resources
in innovative ways to achieve mission impact can be created and
managed. Dr. Austin is the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of
Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School.
Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard
Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard
University faculty since 1972. He was the Co-Founder and Chair of
the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. Prof. Austin has been the
author, co-author, or editor of 16 books. He has taught courses on
Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, Governance of Nonprofit
Organizations, Management in Developing Countries, Agribusiness,
Business Ethics, International Business, Business-Government
Relations, Marketing, Nutrition Policy, and Case Method Teaching.
In addition to Harvard, Dr. Austin has taught and advised managers,
government officials, and graduate students throughout the
world.
He earned his Doctor of Business Administration and Master of
Business Administration from Harvard University with Distinction;
Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Michigan
with High Distinction, and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. Dr.
Austin has been the author or editor of 16 books, dozens of
articles, and over a hundred case studies on business and nonprofit
organizations. His prior research focused primarily on management
problems in developing countries, agribusiness, and nutrition
policy. His current research deals with social enterprises with
emphasis on the creation, management, and governance of nonprofit
organizations, and on the role of business leaders and corporations
in the social sector. Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Professor of
Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the
George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at
Harvard University′s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In
addition, he serves as faculty co-chair of the HBS Social
Enterprise Initiative. He teaches extensively in executive programs
at the Business School and the Kennedy School and around the world
in the areas of general organizational strategy, governance,
performance management, crisis management and leadership, and
corporate social responsibility. His work on leadership focuses on
innovation, creativity, effective decision-making, and advocacy and
persuasion. His current work in leadership and management is
focused on the relationships among governance, accountability, and
performance, and emphasizes the use of performance management as a
tool for enhancing accountability. He has also worked and taught
extensively in the area of crisis management and on issues related
to corporate social responsibility. Professor Leonard is a member
of the Board of Directors of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a
900,000-member Massachusetts HMO, of the Hitachi Foundation, and of
the ACLU of Massachusetts. He was for a decade a member of the
board of directors of the Massachusetts Health and Educational
Facilities Authority and of Civic Investments, and was a member of
the Massachusetts Commission on Performance Enhancement. Howard
Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration
at Harvard Business School, Senior Associate Dean, Director of
Publication Activities, and the Vice Provost for Harvard University
Planning and Resources. A member and former chair of the
Entrepreneurial Management Unit, he has served as the School’s
Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations, chair of
the Latin American Faculty Advisory Group, Senior Associate Dean
and Director of Financial and Information Systems, and faculty
chair of Executive Education’s Owner/President Manager (OPM)
Program. Professor Stevenson’s research focuses on the life
patterns that create enduring success, entrepreneurship and
predictability. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 case
studies, numerous articles, and nine books—including Just Enough:
Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (with L. Nash)
and, Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks
in Business (with E. Shapiro). He has created several successful
companies. Currently he is a director of Camp Dresser & McKee and
Landmark Communications. He is a director of National Public Radio,
a Trustee of the Massachusetts chapter of The Nature Conservancy,
Mt. Auburn Hospital, and Trustee Emeritus of The Boston Ballet. He
served as Director and President of The Sudbury Valley Trustees.
"Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector provides an excellent
overview of the many tools available to the entrepreneur to advance
his or her mission, and it discusses many of the problems that
organizations and their managers encounter at different points of a
growth process."
*Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly*
"The emerging field of social entrepreneurship has been crying out
for a definitive textbook. With clarity, insight, and a strong
practical orientation, the authors of Entrepreneurship in the
Social Sector have set the gold standard for many years to
come."
*Professor J. Gregory Dees*
"The past thirty years have witnessed a remarkable revolution in
which entrepreneurs – people like Bob Swanson at Genentech, Steve
Jobs at Apple, and Meg Whitman at eBay - have transformed the
business landscape around the world. A parallel revolution of at
least equal importance has taken place in the social sector in
which tens of thousands of organizations have been created with
social missions ranging from curing disease to improving education
to alleviating global warming. But, how do these social ventures
get going? How do they attract capital to launch and grow? How do
they measure their performance? In short, how do they accomplish
their mission? In Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, Jane
Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson
provide insights into these issues by combining powerful frameworks
for decision-making with detailed case studies on important social
ventures. The book is helpful to those launching or managing such
organizations and to those who support their efforts through
donations and board membership. Society needs these ventures to
succeed – all involved would benefit from reading this book."
*William A. Sahlman*
"This is so much more than a casebook! Entrepreneurship in the
Social Sector offers a grounded and insightful conceptualization of
the key challenges and fundamental processes of social
entrepreneurship. It also presents practical frameworks for
analyzing both, across a wide range of organizations. This book
should be on the shelf of every aspiring and successful social
entrepreneur."
*James A. Phills, Jr.*
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