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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
Frist, who is married to Tommy, worked at Goldman Sachs and Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Company and now serves on several nonprofit boards. In honor of the Frists, the new faculty commons in Baker Library will bear the family name. View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
to qualified students from Boys’ Town Home, a nonprofit organization serving orphans and disadvantaged youth in Singapore. “A lot of the world champions at Evolve began under the exact same circumstances of extreme poverty,” says... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and public health, so that he could best apply his experience to enhance an existing nonprofit’s work. In 2019, D’Antonio joined the national nonprofit Shatterproof as executive vice president, with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
result of his research was the establishment two years ago of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to putting Porter's model into practice. Now the father of two daughters, Ilana, nine,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 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 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
afforded her a detailed view of the industry’s challenges and opportunities and helped to inspire the founding of the National Trust. The nonprofit launched its test case in May 2021, with the purchase of 24 newspapers and websites in... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
O’Leary, who serves on multiple corporate and nonprofit boards. “That speaks to the long-term value of taking risks and trying new ideas in crafting the MBA curriculum.” O’Leary and Thiry also appreciate the growing emphasis on... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
co-leading the Collaborative in partnership with the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute—where Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO—as well as the Association for Energy Affordability, the US Passive House Institute, and the Vermont Energy... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
first is a mission-driven real estate development firm focused on creating desirable affordable housing for single mothers and their families. The second is a nonprofit that uses a percentage of the firm’s revenues to provide emergency... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving educational opportunities and outcomes for underserved, predominantly Hispanic youth in Arizona. "As my mentor, Gary invested in me as a student and as a person," says Trejo, a Phoenix native,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
admission to HBS for two years while she worked in human resources for General Electric. She eventually matriculated at HBS, deftly juggling classes and childcare for her two young children. Fudge has spent a significant amount of time working with View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, the nonprofit research institute he founded. ~ The Clayton Christensen Fund at Harvard Business School. (In the dropdown menu, select “Other” and then enter the fund’s name.) ~... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
were a nonprofit enterprise, a tactic tried by a previous owner, was another untenable option. BookHampton needed to sell something that its competitors could not. The name and the brick facade of the Main Street building would stay,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
game-changing ideas," SGP is both a foundation and a pro bono consulting firm focusing on nonprofit scale and systemic change, primarily in Massachusetts. "We find social entrepreneurs with promising ideas and work alongside them as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
aspiring entrepreneur with a dreams to start a business and build an empire, start a nonprofit to change the world, or simply to be upwardly mobile and change one’s own life. View Details