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- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, and he would take the lumber and sell it to... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
performance. Putting in $300,000 for 60 percent of the equity, Dunn helped launch Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its chairman for the next seventeen years. With his hands-on help, Prime became an early high-tech success story, and Dunn's VC firm grew and... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world are declaring a climate emergency and a growing number of whistleblowers are coming out to tell the truth. What would telling the truth mean for your business? Supporting people to engage in social movements. Ecosia pays the legal... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
organizations they will work for and the communities they will live in stand to benefit enormously from that kind of background.” “When I talk to current HBS students and recent graduates, they often cite their global immersion trip as... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
relationships with community organizations in the area, forging connections with the SWP and attending monthly meetings of the Union Square Association to get a sense of local needs and wants. Those ties have proved mutually beneficial.... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based Eos Foundation, a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Heifer International, the anti-poverty organization perhaps best known for its livestock donation program. “We can do this by building businesses. We are putting families in commerce. They are not just View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Haft (MBA/MCRP 1977) launched Crown Books in the Washington, DC, area, with plans for rapid growth and a pitch sure to set the chain apart from the growing market: lower prices. Crown’s books were discounted 10 to 40 percent every day, an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
different structures appear to have different strategic implications, and nonprofits must consider how these implications align with their particular organization and expansion goals. In addition to branch View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the way society at large views the role of nonprofit organizations and their management. "There's a growing willingness to work together across the nonprofit, business, and government sectors to build... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
services, on the other hand, were delivered at no cost to clients; consequently, the organization was always at capacity and often had to turn people away. “We needed capacity (beds) and had strong financials, InnVision had empty beds,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
high-impact boards ready to face the unprecedented challenges of a post-pandemic world. In response to steadily growing interest among HBS alumni in serving on nonprofit boards, the Northern California and Boston clubs have previously... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
today is a growing shortage of outstanding faculty,” said Dean Kim B. Clark. “This generous gift will enhance the experience of current students and allow us to strengthen the School’s doctoral programs in the future. It ensures that we... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
founder and CEO of Social Finance, a Boston-based nonprofit established in January to introduce SIBs to the United States. A companion organization with the same name is based in London. With governments here and abroad strapped for cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lab Work
After 16 years at the Australian technology-transfer organization UniQuest, managing director David Henderson (MBA 1989) is moving on to new challenges. Looking back on the experience of shepherding technologies from the university to the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifelong mission to save the oceans
central challenge of our time: how to meet the enormous resource demands of a rapidly growing global population without destroying the natural systems that sustain us,” he says. Merkl found his passion as a young boy playing along the... View Details