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- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Providing relief when disaster strikes
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
and Schrier’s successful volunteer effort evolved into a vision for a sustainable for-profit, social-impact company during HBS Startup Bootcamp in the winter of 2021. “We started with an idea for a solution, but we hadn’t had the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HAA Honors HBS Alumni
College class for 73 years). Brigham, from West Newton, Massachusetts, received the inaugural HBS Volunteer Service Award earlier this year. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland (MBA 1979) of Oslo, Norway, has held many positions in the HAA,... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with Spencer and other members of his... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
human spirituality/religion. The study showed that roughly 20,000 non-founder alumni are logging an estimated 295,000 volunteer hours each month in US and international organizations. Reflecting on the results of the study, Lerner says,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast Cancer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Allen told the Riverside Press-Enterprise (March 14, 2004). A leader of The Global Church, a nondenominational religious organization based in Perris, California, Allen was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1984 to 1986 and entered... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man coordinates a food drive to benefit the people in his community. As a local leader in the Robin Hood Army, a nonprofit volunteer organization, he’s on the front... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
is the Community Partners (CP) program of the HBS Association of Northern California. Founded in 1986, CP has involved more than four hundred alumni in providing pro bono consulting services to nearly 130 nonprofit organizations. CP View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
juvenile law, however, O'Neill decided that his efforts would be better spent working with kids before they got into trouble. He accepted a position in a corporate law firm in Connecticut in 1984 and began doing pro bono juvenile legal work as well as View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
help us identify new places to protect. You are a trained commercial pilot. Is that useful in your work? Over the years, I've been a volunteer pilot for many conservation organizations. With aerial photography, surveys, looking at... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
the history of advertising-an endeavor that led President Clinton to award him in 2000 the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. Burke, whose many other accolades include honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, and alma mater Holy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
bought out his partner, changed the studio’s name from Ocean Spirit Yoga to Yoga by Donation, and eliminated fees and memberships. “People came in droves,” he says. What’s more, the setup is simplicity itself: no bookkeepers, no passes, no paperwork. All teachers View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Clubs News Clubs News Harvard Business School is in the midst of a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African American Student Union (AASU50), with a wide range of events and activities underway to commemorate and reflect upon the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Preaching with a Choir
volunteer experience as a musician with my background in consumer package goods marketing and my Harvard MBA training. “What we were looking to do is to take the Cadillac brand that is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, re-energize it,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
attract resources to support the experts in the field. In addition to managing fundraising efforts, he has developed an extern program where volunteers from companies like Liz Claiborne, McKinsey, and Young & Rubicam work with... View Details