Filter Results:
(927)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,669)
- People (34)
- News (927)
- Research (827)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (636)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,669)
- People (34)
- News (927)
- Research (827)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (636)
Sort by
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Open Up Resources, two successful nonprofits focused on innovation in the K–12 education market in the United States, Wolf knew how to deliver scalable, outside-the-box educational services for American kids. He believes his latest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
brother passed away due to complications from schizophrenia; mental health is an issue I’m very invested in, which is why I sit on the boards of Alto Neuroscience and the nonprofit One Mind.” Back to top View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
a team on the project was part of the FGI learning experience. Each person took on a leadership role that played to his or her strength: Laryea’s background is in finance, Israel has technology expertise, Kreeger and Li have nonprofit and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
others. That was her north star,” says the Harvard College graduate and former McKinsey consultant. Palandjian’s embodiment of her forebearers’ values is a theme in all aspects of her life, including her leadership of Social Finance, a thriving View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
the challenge. “When Elizabeth shared her experience and her ideas, I basically said, ‘How can I help?’” Klein says. “To me there was such a compelling need.” Many other HBS sectionmates supported the startup with seed funding to launch Heal Ukraine Trauma. Among the... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
who has always been comfortable spending time alone with her own thoughts. The last thing I thought I’d do is start a nonprofit with complete strangers.” Origin story: “In 2016, I was shattered by the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
partners include IBM, Shell Energy, SC Johnson, Aldi, Henkel and more. Professor Manuel Maqueda is an expert on plastic pollution and the cofounder and CEO of Single-Use Plastic Elimination or Reduction (SUPER),a nonprofit enabling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
innovative ideas across private, public, and nonprofit sectors; and supports more than 700 venture teams each semester. As the Harvard i-lab has evolved, so too has the approach to furthering students’ entrepreneurial journeys. How does... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
held at the California Club in Los Angeles, will feature a cocktail hour, formal dinner and dancing, and a silent auction. All net proceeds are benefitting the fund, which sends local MBA students and nonprofit leaders to HBS. HBSASC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
and children 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... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
College and to HBS, where he has worked on and chaired several gift and reunion committees. In addition to serving as chairman of the board of Harvard Student Agencies, he has helped set up a venture fund that aids social and nonprofit... View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
has served as a director of more than 50 nonprofit and corporate boards. He has devoted significant energy and support to advancing medicine, an area of deep personal interest since he was 12 years old, when his 13-year-old brother... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
involved in a number of nonprofit organizations, including Tufts University, where he serves as vice chairman of its board of trustees. The Sterns and their two teenaged sons live in New York. Name something that was important to you in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
at DC's Community Foundation to support issues they believe in, primarily empowerment of women and girls, ocean conservation, and sustainable cities. Organizations that have benefited from their involvement include numerous Washington-based View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
thinking. What the world will think in a given set of circumstances.” Berman feels so strongly about what the game can do for a child’s future that, in 2006, he founded Chess for Change, a nonprofit aimed at teaching chess in South... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
Pennsylvania and Boston, where Cathy runs a nonprofit mentoring program for inner-city high school students. “These are amazing kids who just need a chance,” says Jack, whose paternal grandfather labored as a janitor at Harvard to put his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
sector. He is also in the process of setting up the Center for Shared Ownership, which he has seeded with a $10 million donation. The nonprofit will develop best practices, set standards, and study the outcomes of equity grant programs as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
nonprofit organization, DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Database, that currently has 650,000 registered potential donors, the largest bone marrow donor bank in the world. While Harf's wife did not survive, thousands of others have, thanks... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young