nonprofit - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

Institute, which advises managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, says that as organizations increasingly ask customers to play a more active role in transactions, saving money shouldn't be the sole guiding force.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

dynamics include the founding team in an entrepreneurial venture, a research group comprising physicians and scientists, a financial services team evaluating a possible deal, a governing board for a nonprofit organization, and a corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

28 Jun 2024
News

Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

for all of its activities, it raises the clubs’ profile in the larger New York community, which attracts new members, more volunteers and more potential nonprofits to serve. “It really ends up being a fantastic thing,” says Peeters, who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 May 2023
News

Balancing Acts

Hanna: In addition to serving as COO and treasurer of the Ford Foundation, Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) started the nonprofit advocacy group, Moms of Black Boys United, after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

Mentorship has been an ongoing theme and concern for Lack, whether in the business or nonprofit sector. After graduation, she worked at McKinsey in its New York and Washington, DC, offices for four years. She left while pregnant with the... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA

entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles. A faculty venture is any entity that is, or... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

also funds programs that bring clean drinking water, medicine, and literacy programs to rural Indian villages. He runs the nonprofit EMRI like he does any of his other myriad enterprises, by driving the staff hard and carefully measuring... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

Umeda visits. Sato-san’s right lung has failed; morphine helps ease the pain, but it’s hard not to worry as the weekend nears. The clinic is always a phone call away, Dr. Umeda reassures them. Matsubara is one of eight clinics operated by the View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

HBS alumni to support nonprofit organizations. Five HBS grads––Karen Alden (MBA 1988), Abbas Causer (MBA 2013), Ben Dubin (MBA 1997), Yvette Romero (MBA 2009), and Christian Thwaites (MBA 1988)––participated in a four-month brainstorming... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Jennifer McCrea and Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), with Karl Weber (Deepak Chopra) This book is a guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause. Through personal stories, many innovative suggestions, and inspiring examples, the authors... 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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

she went on to get her Ed.D at Columbia University. She started her career in retail as a department store buyer, and has used her experiences to consult, teach, and write on career management issues. Betsy Jaffe also worked for Catalyst, a View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Your Office, HBS professor Prithwiraj Choudhury, who has been studying this phenomenon for over a decade, takes readers inside the trailblazing companies that are going all-in on work-from-anywhere (WFA) policies. From startups and View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

challenges. When I joined BlackRock in 2015 to launch their impact investing platform, it involved taking my experience from the nonprofit side and thinking about how to measure social outcomes and drop that into an asset management... View Details

19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316142-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-140 Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved In fall of 2015, the Toronto, Canada–based education technology View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2025
News

Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte

HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details