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November 2000
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WARDA: Leading a Rice Revolution in West Africa

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

The West Africa Rice Development Association, along with various national and international partners, was developing and transferring new rice technologies to farmers throughout West and Central Africa. While production in West Africa was growing faster than any other... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa

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February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
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SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool

By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn

The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India

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Jenny Tison

top-down. Companies that truly manage to their creeds can withstand crises.” In the summer, Jenny will try something entirely new, “an operations position with McMaster-Carr, an industrial parts supplier.” Jenny is still weighing her career options, “but I know that I... View Details

18 Apr 2023
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HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States.... View Details

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LGBTQ+ Pride Month | Baker Library

as LGBTQ. Go Markets > Market Maps Use GuideStar Pro to locate nonprofit organizations who list LGBTQ people and intersex people as populations they serve. View Mintel 's report on "Marketing to LGBTQ+ Communities – US – 2025" Read... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Turning Point: Makeover

rebuilt our team, held space for my people during a wave of AAPI hate, and tripled our growth rate. I will never again doubt my ability to lead and am committed to helping others see themselves clearly too. Vicky Tsai is the founder of Tatcha and a global board member... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; leadership; purpose; Asian American; beauty industry; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2021
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Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

chance for students to test their management skills and pitch in on disaster clean-up—to both learn and grow as human beings.” — Hirotaka Takeuchi Professor of Management Practice Since the Japan IFC started, more than 300 students have volunteered in the area (with... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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No Time Like the Present

and cofounder of Cleanacwa, a nonprofit that works on water and sanitation in his homeland. Consistent with his focus on helping Africa manage its challenges and capitalize on its strengths, Delle is also supporting HBS’s Global... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Your Keyboard Is Listening

want to know if I have one of these diseases?’” “Researchers think there are subtle signs that precede the known symptoms of diseases like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s,” explains Robi Blumenstein (MBA 1984), president of the CHDI Foundation, a View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2002
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Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago

wide-reaching networking system. The club also continues to generate volunteers for the Tax Assistance Program (TAP), a nonprofit venture founded by Robert M. Burke (MBA '99). Through TAP, volunteers help residents in underprivileged... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton

01 Apr 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

one offered to 35th Reunion attendees in the fall, modeled on the Odyssey program, and the other focusing on nonprofit management. In addition, the committee is eagerly investigating other vehicles for delivering continuing education to... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

01 Apr 2001
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Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

before deciding to devote more time and energy to raising money for the Student Sponsorship ProgrammeSouth Africa (SSP-SA). With Nyagaka Ongeri (MBA 1997), Clarke cofounded SSP-SA in 1999. “We have a chance now to become a major player in the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

to making lifelong learning the cornerstone of alumni relations. Building on the critical work of previous committees, this group is charged with ensuring the success of current educational programs designed expressly for alumni: The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit,... View Details

Keywords: conferences; committees; leadership; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
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Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal

Wien, advisory board member Laurene Sperling (MBA ’82) views fellowships as a way to ensure that students with broad interests come to the School. Having served on several nonprofit boards, she sees the need for leadership skills in a... View Details

Keywords: HBS; MBA; Fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
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Amy S. Langer

Langer has served as executive director of the National Alliance for Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), a leading patient advocacy and educational nonprofit based in New York City. “As a patient, I found it very hard to get... View Details

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

incorporates a bundled payment system that covers the full care cycle. "Bundles are hard, but we're getting there," Porter said. Several organizations are now hard at work to bring value-based health care to fruition. The nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

03 Jun 2022
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HiHome Sweet HiHome

created a special concentration in housing and urban innovation at Harvard. He also co-founded BreakTime, a Boston nonprofit that provides career development for young adults experiencing homelessness. “I wanted to use housing and cities... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

continuous change and innovation." The day offered a series of breakout sessions led by several women with extensive experience in different fields. The nonprofit panel, for example, included Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79), a fellow at The... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

passion for this nonprofit led him to get involved as a volunteer. That passion, as well as his experience in business and as a board member for one of OB’s four wilderness schools, made him an ideal candidate for the president’s position... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
Case

Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

By: Robert G. Eccles

Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details