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March 30, 2009

Harvard Business School Selects Inaugural Recipient of Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship

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Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) has been named the first Harvard Business School Social Entrepreneurship Fellow (http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/careers/socialentrepreneurship/) for her work in launching Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE - http://sheinnovates.com/).

SHE is a platform for starting businesses that use innovative, market-based approaches to tackle socio-economic and public health problems in developing countries. Scharpf started SHE in late 2007 based on the belief that charitable efforts alone are not enough to address the breadth and complexity of socio-economic and health problems that exist in developing countries.

The HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program is designed to support the efforts of recent HBS graduates who are launching social enterprises - nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations - with a central focus on the creation of social value. This pilot program provides seed funding support to one recent graduate each year through a $25,000 fellowship.

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