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- 19 Oct 2010
- News
More for-profit firms now involved in open-source
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
the map in the United States,” says Cohen. “The three of us created a business plan. Tracy executed it absolutely brilliantly.” “I tilt toward doing, rather than planning,” says Palandjian of building Social Finance from an idea into a national nonprofit. The impact... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
area of for-profit hospital management and the company that established the HCA Foundation. HBS has many ties to the Frist family: Thomas F. Frist III (MBA ’97), William R. Frist (MBA ’01), Julie Damgard Frist (MBA ’97), and Patricia C.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and declining print advertising revenue. That was the firm foundation upon which local newspapers were built, so that pressure on the traditional sources of revenue has obviously put pressure on the rest of the business—and particularly... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
the nonprofit sector. In addition to its lending platform, SITAWI offers philanthropic fund management and has partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
will address the challenges facing organizations in attracting, developing, and retaining outstanding talent. He calls the approach required today "constellation leadership." What impact has the Internet's rapid growth had on the way consulting View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
investments to both nonprofit and for-profit social impact companies. It also offers philanthropic fund management, and it partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg (Princeton University Press) Many firms try to buy star performers by luring them away from competitors. But after examining the careers of over 1,000 star analysts on Wall... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Dubilier Prize, established in honor of the late Martin Dubilier (MBA '52), cofounder of the LBO firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. The HBS Business Plan Contest was developed by students in 1996 with the cooperation of faculty and MBA Career... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
the pension firm State Street Research. Although the family moved because Wise got a job at Tulane, Wilkins quickly saw opportunities in the city's burgeoning business scene. "I'm an entrepreneur at my core, and after Katrina everyone... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and traditional equity research Scott Bolick... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum percentage of the sales of any... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
president and CEO of COMPS InfoSystems between 1992 and 2000. During his leadership, the small regional print-publishing firm that covered commercial real estate became a national electronic database publisher, with 420 employees and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact
The nonprofit need of for-profit acumen is acute, says Jeff Bradach (AM 1990, PhDOB 1992), cofounder and managing partner of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit advisor and resource for mission-driven organizations and philanthropists.... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
being’s life. Then the authors go much deeper—analyzing the roles of both nonprofits and for-profit companies in making significant impacts, and offering conclusive data-supported proof of the approaches that are working. “We’re simply... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley