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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
donors like Richard Menschel (MBA 1959) have enabled students to pursue post-graduation nonprofit careers through support of programs such as HBS Leadership Fellows and Nonprofit/Public Sector Loan Repayment... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
impact revolution will sweep through all industries from clean energy and telemedicine to fintech and edtech, he predicts. And with $7 trillion in venture capital and private equity available globally—far more than existed at the start of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
As a student at Harvard College, Matthews continued her experimentation, signing up for a class called Affecting Change through Art and Science. “I took the course because people said, ‘You can create cool stuff and they give you money to... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
going to be taught this year, and we’re asking students to focus on how Apple and Google managed a public health crisis, where literally millions of people were dying from COVID-19 around the globe. Was it okay for Apple to say to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with their View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
always the risk of embarrassment: Maybe no one would sign up. On the other hand... Sahlman knew for a fact that whenever one of his colleagues offered a course that focused on people in a deal-making context, students signed up in droves.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Gerardo "Gerry" Lopez fondly recalls the first movie he saw in the United States, in 1977: Star Wars. "Wow, the special effects and flying through space—it was great!" says Lopez (MBA 1984), summarizing his reaction as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
Leadership and Innovation “The fellowship was helpful in making decisions for my life in the sense that by minimizing my student loan burden, I was able to really pursue the career that I was most excited... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
Summer offers the benefit of long, warm days—and for students, the very real opportunity to consider a potential sector or role for post-HBS plans, sometimes with the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program. (Last year, 256 students... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
centers across India, creating more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and 12,000 jobs. The first program, Change the Mindset (CMS), works with students in secondary schools and colleges, introducing them to entrepreneurial skills and opening their... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Aubree Mills with students at the Ira A. Murphy Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona. Courtesy Aubree Mills Elementary school principal Aubree Mills had two dilemmas she needed to address: One was recruiting and retaining good teachers at... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
the organization is based. After partnering with USAID and private funders to bring e-readers to six schools in Ghana, Worldreader now has extended its reach to Kenya, where a foundation is partnering with Risher’s group to bring Kindles... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
real-world perspective.” Leo Corbett (MBA 1975), whose career both in the private and public sectors includes stints in the Social Security Administration and on Wall Street, has served on many boards of directors. He said he enjoyed... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
mother, her 16-year-old son, and the 16-year-old daughter of friends—who has now moved into his home. Spier notes that he has “received enormous help from the Jewish community, our friends, and colleagues at work” in their efforts to accommodate the family, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
tangible results: The Walmart Foundation cited the research as part of its announcement of a new five-year, $100 million effort to address the skills gap. The initial competitiveness research also inspired the HBS Club of New York to launch a project that connects... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
Kentucky. She expects to establish a private practice and perhaps a retail business in bridal styling. “HBX CORe gave me a window into things I had never considered,” she says. “It showed me business practices I do and don’t want to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30 percent on administrative... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Children’s Defense Fund; and helped to select the first secretary of education while a senior White House aide in the Carter Administration. Now semi-retired, Frankel is executive director of College Match, a nonprofit he founded in Los Angeles that assists talented... View Details