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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Nine MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program
Nine graduating MBAs are taking positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the support of the School’s Leadership Fellows program. Now in its seventh year, the program offers a select group of HBS students the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.” —Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92), founder and CEO of Year Up, a nonprofit providing urban young adults with technical and professional skills... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim discusses how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni who are working to make a successful transition. The second program, Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader, was available to all returning classes, and we believe it could become de rigueur for our graduates who are... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the only pan-African firm of its... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
of management practice Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004) told the Journal. Before joining the HBS faculty, Weiss was chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Weiss notes that more than 70 students registered for his course on... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
societal challenges. In today’s landscape, there are many ways in which to have an impact, including board service and volunteering; for-profit ventures with a social mission; nonprofit leadership; venture philanthropy; and impact... View Details
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- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
nonprofit business and economics institution in Brazil. The Insper Institute of Education and Research, he says, aims to address the shortage of prepared leaders. “Many of our problems [in Brazil] stem from microeconomics,” he says. “We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
economic power to really shape the world, and that always stuck with me.” Rice subsequently founded a nonprofit organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), to help educate young people about, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Natural World
middle of the night wondering how I was going to get my job done,” recalled Tercek. “That never happened to me at Goldman Sachs.” Tercek has found that “a mission-driven nonprofit is harder to manage than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
includes the following positions held: cochairman (and 38-year veteran) of Goldman Sachs; deputy secretary of state in the Reagan administration; and board president of many prominent nonprofit organizations. Founder of the Committee to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
thousands of small nonprofits in Pakistan that were doing amazing work on the ground remained undiscovered by mainstream donors. Borrowing from his private equity training, Wasim employed a metrics-driven approach to selecting the best... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Takes One to Know One
(photo by Susan Young) (photo by Susan Young) Janet Cahill (AMP 189, 2015), who was previously managing director of HBS External Relations and The Harvard Business School Campaign, has been named the new executive director of External... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance but had always dreamed of working in the nonprofit sector. In 2003, he recalls, “I made this leap of faith, that if I could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
We Invest in HBS Because...
undergraduates or executives, realize they can do more in life for themselves and for those around them." The Kramers support fellowships that enable nonprofit leaders to attend Executive Education programs and rising seniors to travel to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Mehra (MBA 2009) Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009) Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) Brian Elliot (MBA 2008) Friendfactor — SEF 2010 honoree Friendfactor is a social-action nonprofit that aims to... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Company, Consultant 1983 Named Partner, Bain & Company 1987 Named Managing Partner of San Francisco office, Bain & Company 1992 Named President, Bain & Company 1993 Named Worldwide Managing Director, Bain &... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
of nonprofit managers to HBS Executive Education programs. “Social enterprise is one of the common threads that connect HBS alumni clubs, regardless of size or geographic location,” notes Goff. “The Global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
managing director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, were awarded first place for their January–February 2011 article “Creating Shared Value.” The article lays out the concept of shared value, which... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
solution was the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a nonprofit spun out of City Hall that is focused on turning around 22 of the district's lowest-performing schools. Serving close to 16,000 students, the partnership is a collaborative... View Details