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- January 2023 (Revised September 2024)
- Supplement
The END Fund (B)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
Founded in 2012, the END fund focused on eliminating five Neglected Tropical Diseases that accounted for 80% of the tropical diseases affecting nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its roughly $25 million/year annual budget was fully committed when it got news that the... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Investment Funds; Global Range; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Mission and Purpose
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "The END Fund (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 523-064, January 2023. (Revised September 2024.)
- 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
Trelstad, Brian, and Idelès Kaandorp. "HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential." Harvard Business School Case 323-024, September 2022.
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
Many students come to HBS with an interest in social enterprise; many others hope to become entrepreneurs. But Lindsay Hyde arrived on campus with significant accomplishments in both domains. As the founder of Strong Women, Strong Girls, a View Details
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
Tom Chen (MBA 2021) and Student Association representatives Abby Burcham (MBA 2021) and Matthew Shackelford (MBA 2021), we picked a date (March 31st) and hired our production partner. In selecting a charity, we were drawn to a new organization called Breaktime, a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
working my way up in finance or private industry, and then I’d move into nonprofit work on women’s education in the developing world.” How she’s fulfilling that goal instead: Leading all-women expeditions and speaking out about life as a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Whitehead Institute is an independent, nonprofit research and teaching organization and one of the largest participants in the Human Genome Project through the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research. Pratt notes that because the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
money. But refunds are many families’ best opportunity to put away a few dollars for their children and their futures. For the past three years, a team comprising researchers, the nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund (which I cofounded),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
handful of educators, nonprofit leaders, and criminal justice reformers to find pathways to success for these young people. In the author's words, “As a juror in a criminal trial, your vote is one of 12 determining whether the accused... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
time in this world taken away and then given back, you want to use it in the very best way you can.” Looking back on his childhood, the friendly, unassuming Massie, who is executive director of the nonprofit Coalition for Environmentally... View Details
- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (C): Progress and Prospects, 1995-2001
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith have already transformed a "worst-in-area" emergency medicine department into the best in the area. Industry-wide and hospital system-specific challenges remain, including their newest project of national importance--creating an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
School named a new group of Leadership Fellows, graduating MBAs taking yearlong key positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations at salaries partially subsidized by HBS. The School also announced the recipient of the inaugural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
to keep her career options open. “I’m definitely interested in nonprofit management, but I’m not ruling out anything,” she states. “To have come this far in my life has been such a blessing. I will continue to share that blessing with... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Previous Business Plan Contests have produced successful companies such as Bang Networks, a leading provider of technologies and services enabling the real-time Internet; Finale, an upscale restaurant that serves desserts and beverages; and Low Cost Eyeglasses, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the transition to entrepreneurial or... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
obvious: Environmentalists have long known that the city has water run-off issues, but there had never been any political will to solve the problem. “Hurricane Harvey showed everyone that we just can’t be on the sidelines anymore,” Coady observes. He is currently... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
grant-making agencies.” McMinn also supports St. Helena Hospital Foundation and Napa Learns, an education nonprofit that gets technology into the hands of students; but the Vine Trail Coalition has the kind of startup energy that inspires... View Details