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- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
capital campaign and expansion of the nonprofit organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer learning opportunities for 6,500 local adolescents annually. A key initiative is a multiyear... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977) is helping empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly women—cope with the impact of climate change through sustainable food, water, energy, and income-generation programs. As chief operating officer for the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
Making coding cool
Only.” Through Girls Who Code, teenage girls are exposed to the world of computer science and given the education and support they need to pursue careers in the field. The nonprofit has school computer science clubs in more than 20 states... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit
Microsystems. As head of the San Francisco–based William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation, he supported nonprofits committed to medical research, the arts, and higher education. Bowes led USVP with the belief that venture capitalists should guide... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
president of Strategic Interactive Group; Joy D. Covey (MBA '89, JD '90), CFO of Amazon.com; and Deidra Wager (AMP 154), an executive vice president at Starbucks. Professor Regina E. Herzlinger's session on "Managing in the Nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
nonprofit international development organization that he has chaired for the past decade. While he now draws a firm line between business and public service, the skills he uses in each realm overlap tremendously. Many of those skills —... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition
When Ben de Menil (MBA 2006) first heard Dominican bachata music, he knew he was hearing something special. Through his record label iASO Records and the nonprofit iASO Bachata Academy, established in 2013, in Cabarete on the northern... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that nature sticks around... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
of Management at Northwestern University, hosts his annual review of some of the most expensive TV advertising spots in history: Super Bowl commercials. 2020 Nonprofit Board Summit, March 9 The 2020 View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
impact in Roxbury and subsequently got involved in launching two new Nativity schools, the first of which was in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he became the founding principal, and then again in Wilmington, Delaware. “As much as I liked teaching,” he says, “the... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
Joyner to Receive Harvard’s DuBois Medal
a board member for the Tate and the nonprofit Art + Practice. Selected works from her extensive collection of African American abstract art are currently touring museums across the United States. In receiving the award, Joyner joins the... View Details
- 28 Dec 2016
- News
In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)
the company’s first chairman and treasurer. Reflecting on his more than 50 years in the industry, he told the Bulletin in 2009 that the qualities that best define a successful entrepreneur are “intelligence, desire, and unrelenting forward motion.” His View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve learned is how expressive and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The way to measure success
exponentially to positively impact the lives of millions. Through his family foundation and the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation, Kraft has donated hundreds of millions to nonprofit organizations. Kraft and his late wife, Myra,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
been adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world. Professor Robert S. Kaplan, who created the concept and tool with David Norton (DBA ’73), explains the roots and motivation for their original... View Details
- 18 May 2023
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Do, Wilfong's fundraising—through events like a children arts auction and a community 5K walk and run—allowed the nonprofit to make the same commitment to the 4th graders of the following year and each of the subsequent 5 years. By the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit that fights racial and economic inequities by empowering the next generation of leaders. Since 2002, MLT has been working with high-achieving Black, Latinx, and Native... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- News
Cahill to Lead HBS External Relations
within External Relations. She has worked with many nonprofit organizations over the years, and earlier in her career was a sales and marketing executive at companies ranging from NeXT Computer to IBM. View Details