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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
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
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Manager at Invenergy. Carina Young (MBA 2025, Section A), Summer Internship: Strategy Consultant, FoodCloud, a food redistribution nonprofit 40% of all food is wasted, contributing to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions while almost... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
organizations, including 10 who are presidents of their companies. In addition, three mentors are past scholars of the Club’s Social Enterprise Initiative, which sends local nonprofit leaders to Executive Education programs at HBS. With... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
quarter ever. She sits on several boards, including at MOUSE, a nonprofit bringing STEM programs to underserved youth, and she sponsors an annual scholarship for high school seniors. Ghiya co-founded FemHealth after experiencing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
can’t be 100 percent in control of my destiny, I want to be as much in control as possible.” Kismet: “At HBS, when I was organizing the Latin America conference, I was told to invite this guy who was CEO of the nonprofit Accion... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
down his pursuit of a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as ALS). As founder and former CEO of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with the help of his HBS classmates and professors, Kremer has shone a light... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 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
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
from large groups of people is exactly what nonprofits and political campaigns have been doing for more than a century. In today's world, though, the Internet has dramatically altered the ability for companies and independent... View Details
- 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
- 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