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Stories
01 Jun 2017
Topics: Entrepreneurship-Social EntrepreneurshipSociety-Social IssuesEnvironment-Environmental SustainabilityHealth-Health Care and Treatment
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
From planting trees in India to building health care tech in Boston, a few of the alumni-founded social enterprises that are doing well by doing good
Re: Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Lissy Hu (MBA 2013); Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015); Pradip
Shah (MBA 1981); Karan Shah (MBA 2015)Topics: Entrepreneurship-Social EntrepreneurshipSociety-Social IssuesEnvironment-Environmental SustainabilityHealth-Health Care and Treatment
01 Jun 2017
Topics: Entrepreneurship-Social EntrepreneurshipSociety-Social IssuesEnvironment-Environmental SustainabilityHealth-Health Care and Treatment
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
From planting trees in India to building health care tech in Boston, a few of the alumni-founded social enterprises that are doing well by doing good
Re: Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Lissy Hu (MBA 2013); Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015); Pradip
Shah (MBA 1981); Karan Shah (MBA 2015)Topics: Entrepreneurship-Social EntrepreneurshipSociety-Social IssuesEnvironment-Environmental SustainabilityHealth-Health Care and Treatment
01 Jun 2017
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
From planting trees in India to building health care tech in Boston, a few of the alumni-founded social enterprises that are doing well by doing good
Re: Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Lissy Hu (MBA 2013); Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015); Pradip
Shah (MBA 1981); Karan Shah (MBA 2015)
Topics: Entrepreneurship-Social EntrepreneurshipSociety-Social IssuesEnvironment-Environmental SustainabilityHealth-Health Care and Treatment
Illustrations by Drue Wagner
| The Leadership | The News | ||
| Saathi | Cofounder and CFO Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Founded 2015 |
Almost 3 million women in India don’t have access to sanitary pads. Saathi’s environmentally friendly pads, made from banana fiber and produced in India, are designed to be inexpensive and widely available. | Saathi, the winner of the 2014 HBS New Venture Competition in the social enterprise track, began distribution in 2016 and launched its #OneMillionPads program to donate pads to the women of rural Jharkhand. |
| CarePort | Cofounder and CEO Lissy Hu (MBA/MD 2014); Founded 2012 |
Eight out of ten patients discharged from the hospital need additional care. CarePort’s technology assists with planning and managing this post-acute care. | The winner of the 2012 HBS New Venture Competition in the social enterprise track, Boston-based CarePort was recently acquired by publicly traded health care IT company Allscripts. |
| Rumi Spice | Cofounder and CEO Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015); Founded 2014 |
With the goal of spurring development in rural Afghanistan, Rumi works with 80-plus farmers and hundreds of saffron processors to produce and market the world’s most expensive spice. | Rumi Spice saffron is now in top restaurant kitchens, on the shelves at luxury grocers, and in the recipes of meal-delivery company Blue Apron. |
| Grow-Trees | Cofounders and directors Pradip Shah (MBA 1981) and his son, Karan Shah (MBA 2015); Founded 2010 |
A green alternative to greeting cards, Grow-Trees sends an e-card and plants and maintains trees in India in honor of special occasions (or to offset your carbon footprint). | In six years, Grow-Trees has reforested more than 4,000 acres of land in eight Indian states. |
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