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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
summer employment to take a road trip across America. Captivated by the country, he decided to stay on after graduation; in 1961, he became a U.S. citizen. Dunphy was recruited by Westinghouse Electric and worked in various marketing and... View Details
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Abby Falik
social-impact organizations, Abby turned to HBS. “I wanted to find more people like me – people who wanted to build high-impact, sustainable enterprises, while considering the broader impact of their work on their communities.” HBS helps... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
course of four weeks, representatives at two Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites offered filers the option of splitting their refunds, depositing all or some of their refund into an existing or new savings account with the Bank... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
one an overland trip across four African countries that culminated in volunteer work at a university in Mauritius. These were two totally different experiences, but with the same impact: They gave DiDonna... View Details
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
such an investment in a daughter, not a son, Husain had a sobering realization about the pervasive mindset regarding girls’ education in her native India—where a staggering 64 percent of Indian adolescent girls drop out before grade 8. After graduating, Husain View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
even harder to help those in need. Lu, who began doing volunteer work at an early age, has a deep-seated interest in public-sector work. Rather than pursuing the traditional private-sector path the summer... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
retired, I'm looking at my future options. I still want to be involved in working with the country. Right now, I'm looking at a couple opportunities with two large defense contractors to be able to, once again, build quality products for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
of Asia Pacific for Marriott International, Smith worked his way through college at his uncle’s inn in Provo, Utah. After graduation, he volunteered to be the housekeeping manager at a Marriott property in... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
work has touched our lives.” A woman from North Carolina, whose search of JRI-Poland led directly to cousins in Sweden, Hungary, Israel, and Canada, has told Diamond, “You changed my life.” “People have found family they were never able... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
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Aspa Lekka
"I started knowing nothing," she says. But she went above and beyond the call of duty, completing extra work to advance her skills. "I managed to build a number of models for digital marketing – it gave me deep knowledge of... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 17 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
considered the path of becoming a medical doctor. However, a volunteering experience at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania drew my attention to clinical research and, in particular, the significant impact translational science... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
As autumn approaches and the HBS Alumni Board prepares for a new year of activity, I want to bring you up-to-date on the group’s most recent accomplishments. But first, it’s important to acknowledge the role this dedicated group of View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
(MBA ’93), the Women’s Initiative aims to help alumnae in three ways: by providing career development and education opportunities, by enhancing networking, and by organizing volunteer programs that aid the local community. “Our goal is to... View Details
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Scott Wu
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
other schools accepted only men. "One of the men used a mild bit of profanity, then looked at me and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry.' The professor very wisely said, 'Mrs. Wilkinson has worked at IBM. She's heard all those words before.' "... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
When You Speak, This Group Listens
Services, and the School’s amazing global conferences are just some of the initiatives the Alumni Board has helped bring about. Simply put, the Alumni Board represents the collective voice of HBS alumni. Our job is to be both an idea generator and a sounding board. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to campus for the Volunteer Conference in early November. The latter was a wonderful event that included updates on School initiatives and hands-on, practical sessions. The highlight was an extraordinary multimedia presentation, narrated... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire... View Details