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01 Feb 2001
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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

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

the Cannes, Tribeca, Los Angeles, and Toronto international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of... View Details

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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

relatively young age to make a meaningful impact.” “We feel we get a lot out of Josh,” says Alastair. “It’s not just the work -- the impact of having talent like his radiates out and inspires others around him.” Josh Latson, MBA 2015 Topics View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

social issues in collaboration with government and nonprofit sectors. Leadership for Systems Change : Insights into the personal and professional journey of systems leaders, including skill development, risk management, and the... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference

moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details

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Departments | Employment

work, yet we approach it with perspective, flexibility, optimism, and humor. Attributes of Successful Staff Members A business mindset balanced by an appreciation for working in a nonprofit institution Ability to work collaboratively in... View Details

July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

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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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

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companies and entrepreneurs in emerging markets. "With governmental and nonprofit ventures, it's generally harder to see which initiatives work and which are ineffective at achieving their goals. That is what drives me to do this... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

institutions, added Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (HBS MBA '99). A director of the Fate Foundation Nigeria and Fate Foundation U.S.A., two nonprofits that try to promote entrepreneurship in Nigeria, Nwuneli said, "A company can, instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

into catalyzing and scaling sustainable solutions. Moreover, the nature of environmental challenges requires problem solving that is no longer strictly in a public or private domain, which makes public service and nonprofits a really... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

start innovative nonprofit colleges. “My hope for the students is that the SIP gave them an intense, week-long opportunity to learn about and try to resolve the big questions facing the US college sector,” said Leschly. “My private,... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Program, Senior Associate Dean, Chairman of Baker Library, and Chairman of HBS Publishing. Upon his retirement in 2003, Dr. Cash was recognized as a tireless recruiter and mentor for minority students and faculty. He has served on a number of boards of major... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Contributing to a Better Future

attending HBS, Keller worked at McKinsey and then served as global program director for Open for Business, a small LGBTQ+ rights nonprofit that used research on the connections between business performance, economic performance, and... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Mar 2021
News

Chasing the Silver Tsunami

served on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Age-friendly NYC Commission and the NYC Department for the Aging’s nonprofit board. Oppenheim’s big “aha” moment arrived out of family necessity, in caring for her parents during an illness.... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2009
News

Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

Americanas, with some 500 stores. In 1993, with Lemann and Telles, Sicupira founded GP Investimentos, a private equity firm that he led for eight years. Sicupira is the founder and also a director of Endeavor Brasil, a nonprofit that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

Capital Management, a $20 billion family of mutual funds, she is also a board member of other for-profit and nonprofit entities. Among them is the Global Heritage Fund, which Cohen chairs, an organization that advises Third World... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

nonprofit boards (including that of ABC). While serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, he created the Entrepreneur Internship Program. Rogers is devoted to promoting entrepreneurship among... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year, unrestricted grants coupled with... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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