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- 17 Feb 2011
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Field Report: Rwanda
middle ground of companies that employ 50 to 100 people — somewhere between the nonprofit that would get help from USAID and bigger, for-profit firms served by traditional consulting companies.” For his project, Barry teamed up with...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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The New “In” Crowd
School named a new group of Leadership Fellows, graduating MBAs taking yearlong key positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations at salaries partially subsidized by HBS. The School also announced the recipient of the inaugural...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
to keep her career options open. “I’m definitely interested in nonprofit management, but I’m not ruling out anything,” she states. “To have come this far in my life has been such a blessing. I will continue to share that blessing with...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Previous Business Plan Contests have produced successful companies such as Bang Networks, a leading provider of technologies and services enabling the real-time Internet; Finale, an upscale restaurant that serves desserts and beverages; and Low Cost Eyeglasses, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the transition to entrepreneurial or...
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- 26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
Bridgespan bridges philanthropists and nonprofit organizations in the social sector. It bridges theory and practice, the business and nonprofit worlds, to increase impact through better strategy and...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
innovative life-sciences companies, bring life sciences expertise to venture capital firms, help nonprofits provide essential medicines to poor and developing countries, and lead regulatory agencies. “We want our alums to change the world...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
mitigating risks, pursuing new opportunities, and participating in the policy arena,” says Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. “You don’t have to work for an...
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- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development, together with Dan Björkegren of Brown University and Heiner...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
Beach in 1986—where a few dozen people watched an 8-foot high wooden man burn—Burning Man, now a nonprofit with a $36 million budget (and over 400 pieces of large-scale art to boot), saw some 70,000 Burners come together this year, united...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
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Back to School
D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
sales, Anthony Curry Harris, and his director of international sales, Damaune Journey (MBA 2005)—are hoping to buy CSECO. Harris says that would certainly give him more time to serve on boards, such as the nonprofit SFJazz, which recently...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
demonstrating the power of microfunding via the Internet. The concept packed such appeal that 150 requests from across the country poured in to expand Donors-Choose beyond its New York City base. Now what? The first order of business, says Goldman, is to figure out how...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Ann M. Fudge
the Corporate Women's Network, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the YWCA. She has generously shared her talents with numerous nonprofit organizations, most notably the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In late 1999, Fudge...
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- 02 Jun 2011
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Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to...
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- 13 Apr 2022
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New School
and children that drew him to the company in 2008. Waldron had spent most of his career in the education sector, working for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in mission-driven and profit-driven settings. His experiences had...
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- 21 Oct 2020
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Cold Calculations
the Arctic ice to slow the effects of climate change. Leslie Field, who holds a PhD in electrical engineering and 58 patents, founded the nonprofit (formerly known as Ice911 Research) to develop the necessary technology. Field approached...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
by developing a nationwide network of entrepreneurs and educators. The NSVF will leverage the expertise and resources of these new-economy pioneers in order to assist promising nonprofit and for-profit K-12 education ventures. "The NSVF,"...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Commitment to Leadership
and Neil P. Simpkins (both MBA 1992) Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins stepped up early in their class's 20th Reunion Campaign with a generous gift to establish a fellowship fund for students involved in the nonprofit sector. As members of...
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