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22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

organizational transformation through public service, activism, or social entrepreneurship, as well as their commitment to working in two of three designated areas—the public, private, and nonprofit sectors—over the course of their... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups "R" Us

which enables Web sites to protect themselves from online attacks; Diagnostics For All, a nonprofit that develops low-cost disease diagnostics for the developing world; and Finale, a Boston-area chain of upscale restaurants specializing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

think, made me want to give in a more intense way, which is why I ended up working with a nonprofit for a year—kind of dedicating a year of my life on that. I also think, from a concrete perspective, just stepping away from the pace and... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days

a nonprofit that helps outfit unemployed women for their job search. At Time Inc., Moore has supported a growing trend toward community service. One example is “Time To Read,” a program that serves more than 27,000 kids and adult learners... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

principals at the school level, so the challenge was to create the operations to match.” Kete has recently been chosen for the selective two-year “resident executive” program of the nonprofit Broad Foundation, whose goal is to attract... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

September 2023
Technical Note

Free and Open Source Software and Hardware

By: Frank Nagle

This technical note surveys the concepts of free and open source software and hardware. It introduces the concepts in general, providing a brief history of their development and numerous examples of how companies employ them in practice. Further, it identifies various... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Information Technology; Business Model; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry

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20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

Social Enterprise Summer Fellows program, which debuted in 1982, funds student forays into nonprofit and for-profit organizations focused on the public good. In addition, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative offers fellowship recipients... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

stereotype and expand their image of what’s possible for them.” Since 2014, Owusu-Kesse has served as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a path-breaking New York nonprofit known for its multifaceted approach to ending... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

difference in our world." CURRENT READING The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman As president of New York City-based Women's World Banking (WWB), Nancy Barry has changed the lives of millions of poor women and their families around the globe. The View Details

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

workplace, panelists agreed, people of color must learn to overcome it. Benaree Pratt Wiley (HBS MBA ’72), president and CEO of The Partnership, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit that attempts to increase the number of minorities in... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of business and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Conservation International in 1998 to help coffee farmers improve production quality, while minimizing the impact on some of the world's most ecologically sensitive areas. Two years later, the company began to offer "Fair Trade" coffee through an alliance with... View Details

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Alexandra Stanek

McKinsey. I found the problem-solving aspect of consulting very interesting, and tried to get assignments, unsuccessfully, in Africa. After McKinsey, I joined TechnoServe, a nonprofit that uses business as a tool to affect poverty. In the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Steve Alden

shaped, and continue to shape, his ambitions. "Here, we get a philosophical perspective that emphasizes our responsibilities to business and society," Steve says. "It's not just about making a lot of money. Maybe it's about increasing the pie for... View Details

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Kine Seck Mercier

questions. It was a great opportunity to correct misconceptions people might have.” As part of her plan to leverage her HBS education to explore new directions, Kiné is using her summer internship to work with Education Pioneers, a View Details

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