volunteer work - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
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Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands

Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need... View Details

21 Sep 2016
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Leadership in Motion

Leadership in 2007. In the spring of 2016, Veron was elected a trustee of Scarsdale Village. Community involvement also planted the seeds for the Acceleration Project (TAP), a nonprofit Veron cofounded in 2012 to encourage the growth of small businesses in Westchester... View Details

10 Jan 2017
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Capturing the Personal Side of the MBA Experience

portraits and essays launched the HBS Portrait Project. “I’m interested in vulnerability,” says Deifell, whose 15-year (and counting) commitment to the project involves working with a team of student View Details

26 Aug 2016
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Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition

with volunteer work in environmental causes, gives her a sense that she is “empowering people to make positive changes in their lives. That goal has always been a huge driver for me.” (Published August 2016) View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

Office ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "You have to like what you are doing. Since you spend more time working than doing almost anything else, it makes a big difference if you're enjoying yourself." When Charles Rossotti became commissioner... View Details

12 Jan 2021
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Keeping the Coast Clear

Rhode Island’s resources for generations. Stone has led the group—the Ocean State’s largest environmental organization—since 2009; he joined as a volunteer in 1989. Considering it’s the smallest state in the country, Rhode Island has a... View Details

Keywords: Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

25 May 2016
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FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers

Rob Beiderman (MBA 2014) Having worked at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital, Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) arrived at HBS intent on rounding out his skills and returning to the field of private equity. His life took a sharp turn, however, when it... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin

Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

club operations, development of continuing education, and the marketing of programs and services to alumni. Three committees have been formed to focus on these issues, and they are presently hard at work assessing the current status of... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage

Fulbright Fellow, Jefferson was posted to Singapore to study how public sector leadership is exercised in that country’s multi-cultural environment. As part of that assignment, he interviewed some of Singapore’s senior leaders and also did View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

25 Aug 2014
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Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

Up stems from his experience as a volunteer in the Big Brother Big Sister program. After earning a degree in economics from Bowdoin College, Chertavian worked at Chemical Bank in New York City, where he... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Jan 2016
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Taking Time Out for a Challenge

After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women and children, HBS doctoral... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward

software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of... View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

the recent innovation has come from technologists and pedagogical talent working together to create an environment where the teacher can focus solely on trying to understand what a student knows and what he or she needs next." EQUAL... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
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Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

SALTER: student financial aid vital to HBS. With little fanfare, The Campaign for Harvard Business School reached the $500 million mark at the end of 2004. The School’s first-ever campaign will continue through its December 2005 conclusion, View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2015
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Encouraging Women Leaders

says that almost every day she applies what she learned at HBS and interacts with someone from the School’s worldwide community. “It’s not here and there or now and then; it’s everywhere and all the time.” Serra arrived at HBS with a law degree and experience View Details

06 Aug 2015
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A Wall Street Pioneer Comes Home

to be another person, getting an education.” Sherwood did just that, following through on her goal of landing a job on Wall Street by applying to various firms in her second year at HBS. She eventually landed a position at Goldman Sachs, where she View Details

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

initiative of the club, connecting alumni to each other and to the communities it serves. Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) “We deliver expert goodness,” says HBSCP executive director Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998). “Our teams of alumni View Details