Network Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

STRATEGIC ADVICE: HBS professor Michael Porter took a question before his presentation. What happens when you bring over 450 CEOs and presidents of New York City’s leading nonprofits together for a daylong educational summit? Answer: a lot of business card swapping and... View Details

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

the global workforce,” says Jones. “This is something we live and breathe.” When she attended her first Culture Shift event, she was struck by the ways in which the organization was shining light on the work and talent of black and Latino... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Oct 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

her MBA in 1993, Jennifer E. Gilbert has been president of Art Investment Inc., a publishing firm in Boston. She is a director of the Business Associates Club and president of the HBS Network of Women Alumnae. From 1996 to 1998 she was... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

promise of the Learning Network was on display during the Business of AI SIP. Among the alumni participating were Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), cofounder and chief operating officer of Camino Financial, and Morgan McKenney (MBA 2003), now CEO... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden

spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2008
News

Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

Organized in conjunction with the Centennial, the event drew nearly ninety faculty and practitioners from around the world. A conversation with Khurana follows. What was your goal in organizing this event?... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2013
News

Batteries and Chocolates

workplace dominated by men to one run almost entirely by women. As I've skidded from one end of the gendered-workplace spectrum to the other, I've become convinced that organizations dominated by women are different from those dominated... View Details

Keywords: Spar, Debora; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Jan 2016
News

Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

of business in Africa.” That thought led to the launch of Young African MBAs (YAM). “What started off as a small networking group quickly grew to a registered organization with over 2,000 members,” says... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2010
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Just Extraordinary

foster care and orphanages to help raise international awareness about orphan issues. Turner, herself adopted out of Washington’s foster care system, worked at Procter & Gamble and BET Networks before becoming a successful entrepreneur.... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2004
News

Alumni Board Wraps Up Year

development services. The Executive Education Alumni Committee, chaired by Laura Teller (MBA ’84), organized a series of focus-group discussions held on and off campus to identify ways to strengthen the School’s relationship with... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

culturally relevant as art or music—and why the retail investor is woefully misunderstood. You’ve been at Robinhood now for three-and-a-half years. How has the organization evolved in that time? The mission is the same—to democratize... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Jan 2022
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Learning to Fight

nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects.... View Details

09 Apr 2019
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Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

they found not only a network of support and resources, but also many classmates with their own family’s challenges with food allergies. The group includes Ron Laufer (MBA 2000),who conducted scientific research and advised EAT on health... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

volunteers. “We heard from three organizations,” says the program’s chair, Mark Chussil (MBA 1979). “We selected two, and will field teams for both of them, based on their needs, and the skills and experience of our volunteers.” The winning pitches came from Relay... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

years ago, the organization added a distinctive network of elevated walkways, known as Wild Walk, that gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience nature at treetop level. “Everybody loves Wild... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Feb 2001
News

Books

world: dot-coms, dot-com enablers (technology and service providers), and "wannadots" (established companies seeking to incorporate the Internet into their activities). These organizations must find ways to thrive in a digital age that... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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