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- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
equity firms focused on smaller acquisitions. He also boosted his charitable and nonprofit endeavors. Clifford has been the president of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York, the chairman of the Yale Alumni Fund, and a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
organizations with expertise in economic cluster development. The nonprofit NGO has ties to 9,000 practitioners in development agencies, government departments, cluster organizations, academic institutions, companies, and multilateral... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
side, telling stories and getting to know each other, any fear and prejudice they may have felt before meeting is gone. This is the sort of scene that Alan B. Slifka (MBA '53) had in mind in 1989 when he cofounded The Abraham Fund, a View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
circumstances. Last year, he launched Social Venture Partners (SVP) India is a spin-off of the Seattle-based nonprofit that pools philanthropic activities in a local area, in order to focus financial power on effectively solving local... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
Connecticut native, Bremer serves on several boards, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the founder and president of the Lincoln/Douglass Scholarship Foundation, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit that provides... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
venture fund, you made an Option B choice at the time of the sale. And if you sold your stake in December 1999 and then sailed around the world or began work on a series of nonprofit ventures, you made an Option C choice at the time you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Endeavor Entrepreneur Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the story of Jaime and Endeavor, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
nonprofit that recruits and prepares promising candidates to become school principals, NLNS helps place its trainees in urban public schools and provides them with ongoing support once they become principals. “ I've seen more and more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
students Allison Gaines, Michael Johnston, and Jon Schnur.) A national nonprofit that recruits and prepares promising candidates to become school principals, NLNS helps place its trainees in urban public schools and provides them with... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Students take part in "living cases," where they work with an active social entrepreneur. The course concludes with an exploration of the role of business leaders on nonprofit boards. Offered three times since the spring 1995 semester,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
nonprofit research organization that he founded in 2005. As he read the literature on inequality and spoke with numerous scholars in the field, Moss noted the diversity of situations in which the phenomenon has been studied. Income... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Morriss, the cofounder and managing director of the Concire Leadership Institute, which advises managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, says that as... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
leader in the nonprofit arts space. This publication, organized in conjunction with an annual cultural conference in New York (the first to be held in September 2015), will enable Lincoln Center to create and disseminate knowledge in the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
case and why? “One case that stands out is the case on Daily Table from my second-year retailing class. I was already exploring mission-driven food organizations at that point and had the opportunity to work with Daily Table during my first year at HBS. Daily Table is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
enough time for my family." Benton has also been active in a number of nonprofit ventures throughout her career. "I love the feeling that I'm giving something back," she notes. "The 'results' from our class to date, not just financially... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
IFC started, more than 300 students have conducted volunteer work in the area (with small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and local towns), garnering unforgettable lessons in crisis leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic revival.... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
it is now known, assists 1,500 people a year, with a budget of over 1 million and six full-time employees. Balancing his work life, nonprofit life, and family life (Perez de Leza got married two years after HBS and has two daughters) is... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
barely spoke during those years. In 1967 I became president of Emerson College, where the General’s wife was a trustee! Doriot and I got reacquainted, which led to a long-delayed sharing of his immense goodwill and deep understanding of the subtleties of View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
DeRemate.com has founded an industry-wide nonprofit to advocate for the Internet. The company is also involved in supporting a government program that places computers in schools, with a goal of reaching eleven million young people by... View Details