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  • 28 Oct 2021
  • News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

(HBSWANY), presented the discussion in partnership with the nonprofit Girls With Impact to explore how Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company, is using philanthropic and investment capital to fund innovative startups and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • News

Finding Common Ground

Education, a nonprofit that provides grants to support innovative, evidence-based practices in K–12 education. Because problems such as homelessness and underperforming schools have multiple causes, Shumway stresses that solving them... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

digital divide brought to light by the rapid transformation of the classroom experience from in-person to remote learning. ASHISH DHAWAN (MBA 1997) Founder and chairperson of Central Square Foundation, a nonprofit working to transform... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • December 1993 (Revised January 1994)
  • Case

Montana Land Reliance

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Thomas Patterson
The Montana Land Reliance is a small not-for-profit organization in the business of creating conservation easements on private lands in Montana. The easements preserve the scenic character and recreational value of the lands by precluding subdivision and other forms of... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Business or Company Management; Natural Environment; Nonprofit Organizations; Property; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Montana
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  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

avoid relying on student loans.” Read More Introducing LivelyHood, a Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19“LivelyHood is a safe and simple platform that connects healthy, young volunteers with elderly and immunocompromised... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

New Releases

business, obtaining venture capital, managing growth, handling bankruptcy, and starting a nonprofit venture. The pieces focus on the skills and abilities one must master to fill the entrepreneurial role, from creativity and innovation to... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy

may want to work with a nonprofit organization. Research different organizations that would appeal to you based on your interest areas. Or, if you would like to continue engaging in your existing work, research opportunities to do... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Long Run

with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

groups are the company's adversaries. At times, that view is justified; some regulators and advocates are indeed hostile to business. But government and nonprofit organizations will always play a role in environmental management – the... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Answering the Call

change, Brooks says that entering the ministry late in life has been an asset. In guiding his church and parishioners, he is able to draw on a wealth of life experience, as well as on the leadership and analytical skills he developed at HBS and the knowledge about... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

offered in conjunction with this month's reunions: Transitions and Transformation and Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader. These were tailored specifically to the needs of alumni. In addition, the committee has urged the... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2021
  • News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

The Prosperity Project, a nonprofit established during the pandemic to specifically work to stem the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on women, aims to provide Canadian women with advocacy, mentoring, and resources, while also conducting... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • September 2022
  • Case

HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential

By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Health Industry; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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  • April 2010
  • Case

Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question

By: Toby E. Stuart, G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett and Ann Leamon
Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, must decide the best way to replicate his innovative, award-winning approach to curing poverty. Manchester Bidwell's approach, which provides both adult job-training tuned to fill the needs of local industries and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Training; Competency and Skills; Jobs and Positions; Human Resources
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  • 10 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

decided to pursue my MBA as a senior in college after attending HBS’s Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP). Throughout college I interned in both nonprofits and tech, sectors in which attending business school was not as common or... View Details
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

facing the world. I am very grateful for it.” Kasia Stochniol, MBA 2014 Topics Nonprofit Strategy & Governance More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2020
  • News

Educating the Whole Student

the work and seeing what the needs are, every day, of teachers, students, and families—then you just don’t understand,” says Liu, who later worked on education policy in the government and nonprofit sectors. Her experience at Codman... View Details
Keywords: April White; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

proactively, not reactively. I can’t stop. Then a mom from the group suggested setting up a conference call to figure out our next steps. From there, we formed a steering committee, and I drafted a mission statement and a long-term strategy. Today, we have two View Details
  • 28 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Taking Measure on Memorial Day

Academy and commissioning as an engineer officer in the US Army, I joined the founders of Steel Hearts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring the fallen cadets, midshipmen, and graduates of America’s service academies... View Details