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17 May 2018
News

Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive and founder or three tech startups, quickly became good... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

111.3 million subscribers, could see a profit increase of at least $28 million from a single retention campaign if it applied their approach. Gupta says the method could be applied in nonprofit areas to predict, for example, patient... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

company that is recognized as successful, with substantial revenues and profits. Our corporate participants are presidents of their companies or divisions, or they're executive vice presidents—almost always within two strikes of the top. We have also had some... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

girls in Manhattan, Kovatch acts as a judge during the pitch competition. She’s also helping the nonprofit develop a scale-up plan. The lessons are empowering and the results transformational. “One student wasn’t paying attention, and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

and law-enforcement personnel about criminal, corrupt, and commercially tax-evading flows. U.S. and international agencies, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, are also important sources of information on these matters, as are a number of private and View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

the detriment of product quality. Indeed, previous research has shown that consumers viewed nonprofits as warm but incompetent, whereas for-profits were viewed as cold but competent. The results showed that participants' perceptions of a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Ventures Quantified Ventures supports the progress of the social enterprise community through impact investing. They work with nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, and governments who demonstrate capacity for transformative social... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

Mahalia Jackson; Donnie McClurkin; Yolanda Adams; Shirley Caesar. Time management tips: “I am maniacal about my calendar. I make a to-do list that changes every day, throughout the day.” Nonprofit boards: Eight total, including the Food... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

the public sector or nonprofit world, as well as in the business world. “When we start closing minds, we jeopardize our competitiveness.” I've been concerned about what has happened to the United States in the 21st century because we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

an HBS MBA myself (Class of 1976), and when I came to HBS I enrolled in an MBA/Doctoral program. But I had only worked in nonprofit organizations before school, so I left for what I thought would be a short stint in business before... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

US-Mexico border, Mireya’s personal experiences with educational inequities inspired a deep commitment to empowering underrepresented communities. She founded Envisions Project, a nonprofit organization that provides first-generation... View Details

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

officials, for example, feel it cathartic to go online and describe what happened. In addition to accumulating reports of corruption, the site, run by the Bangalore-based nonprofit Janaagraha, also generates heatmaps showing hotspots... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

discouraged by existing organizations, which don't see the catalytic innovators' solutions as viable. As the authors show through examples in health care, education, and economic development, both nonprofit and for-profit groups are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2025
News

Work of Art

Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Chris Sorensen; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Past Issues - Alumni

look back at his life and legacy Bridging the Gap How can business, civic, and nonprofit leaders work together to bring shared prosperity to America’s communities? The HBS Young American Leaders Program is jump-starting that... View Details

September 2018
Teaching Note

City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details

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