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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
first is a mission-driven real estate development firm focused on creating desirable affordable housing for single mothers and their families. The second is a nonprofit that uses a percentage of the firm’s revenues to provide emergency... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy
How are the models of strategy that have been developed for business organizations being applied in the nonprofit world? What new strategy models are emerging that reflect the distinctive characteristics of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson found that many nonprofits that had expanded or were considering doing so preferred the branch model, even though it is characterized by slower growth. To learn more, Baker Library’s Carla Tishler... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
host of Web-based social enterprises (WEBSEs): nonprofit information hubs, online giving directories, click-to-donate sites, workplace-giving centers, charity shopping malls and auctions, and volunteer clearinghouses. These start-ups are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
business when I graduated. We were trained to work in established companies that had tens of thousands of employees. We didn’t spend much time on international business or study nonprofit management. Entrepreneurship was a novel idea.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and nonprofit leaders who are keen on bringing their expertise to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
Did you know? 10% of current MBAs come from social-enterprise backgrounds 81% of HBS alumni are involved in the social sector in some form 57% of HBS alumni serve on nonprofit boards 40 HBS faculty members are engaged in social-enterprise... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Business Plan Contest Winners
The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
1996 graduates of West Point. Proceeds from the annual event go to the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans. The theme was “convergence,” and that’s precisely what some 800 students, business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
For the Good of Society
and working with Bain, and all this stuff to be of service to the world. The idea was, taking Bain and Company—and to some extent Bain Capital kinds of skills—and creating a spinout of Bain that would serve philanthropists and nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
people look at is “graduating MBAs.” About 5 percent are going directly into the nonprofit and government sectors. But that is a single snapshot. If you looked at our alumni over time, it would be a vastly larger number. Right now, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
Formerly used to store utensils and cookware, the racks now store the club’s arts-and-crafts supplies. Kitchen equipment Haiti and Jamaica Various charities More than three truckloads of pots and pans, ladles, spoons, china, and rolling sinks went to View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 May 2015
- News
A passion for education
Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001) brings her business know-how to the nonprofit sector as a partner at the Bridgespan Group and as chairman of her local school committee. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
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Raising the bar to provide quality education
After cofounding a nonprofit to establish academy schools for low-income children in London, England, Jennifer Moses (MBA 1989) is working to provide quality education for disadvantaged children in California. She and her husband, Ron... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
applicable are skills learned at HBS for recent graduates facing real-world challenges? What are the differences and similarities for alumni who work in the private and nonprofit sectors, in large corporations vs. smaller organizations?... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
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Finding Her Place
recruiter from Chapman Partnership called. The homeless-services nonprofit was looking for a CEO. Chapman Partnership has provided shelter and other resources to the unhoused population of Miami-Dade County, Florida, since 1995. The View Details