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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he founded in New York; Evolve... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
College and to HBS, where he has worked on and chaired several gift and reunion committees. In addition to serving as chairman of the board of Harvard Student Agencies, he has helped set up a venture fund that aids social and View Details
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Peggy Mativo-Ochola
returned to Nairobi, Kenya where she founded and launched Pacemaker International, an educational nonprofit similar to Teach for America. "Kenya is short about 70,000 teachers," says Peggy. "The people most affected by the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, the nonprofit research institute he founded. ~ The Clayton Christensen Fund at Harvard Business School. (In the dropdown menu, select “Other” and... View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Government, Business, and Nonprofit Leaders Early-Career Professionals Learn how to evaluate, measure, and manage sustainable investment opportunities with cutting-edge frameworks, strategies, and techniques. The course content is well... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
was a bit of an adjustment," he laughs, "but the best thing about this experience is that it's given me a chance to assemble a great group of people and work with them to create what I hope will be an extraordinary fund and firm." Waters... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen" with Dimitris J. Bertsimas, Omar Skali Lami, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, et al. Edward McFowland III : Recipient of a 2018 Adobe Faculty Research Award , a grant to fund data science research. Edward... View Details
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Career Support - Business & Environment
careers with nonprofits focused on corporate engagement, or in the public sector. HBS MBAs have many options for making a difference at the critical intersection of environmental and business issues. BEI actively assists students in... View Details
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Rosabeth M. Kanter : Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Squire Patton Boggs Nonprofit Leadership Symposium. Leonard A. Schlesinger : Received the 2021–2022 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
Impact. When you look at making an impact, a large part of it is rooted in directing funds to places that need it. I did that at a very site-specific level as an engineer — if there was a piece of equipment at my facility that was... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
investors, and policymakers increasingly call on businesses and their leaders to help find solutions—roles once viewed solely as governmental or nonprofit responsibilities. The pace of these evolving expectations has placed many business... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
first star men and women. Better yet, companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now a division of Northrup Grumman) have actually proven their launch vehicles by delivering satellites or payloads to extraterrestrial destinations. The latest news: Israel's View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
healthcare in a range of leadership and advisory roles that have put her HBS and HKS education into practice. Her work has spanned the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and has made an impact on how healthcare is delivered across the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
will have extraordinary impact, and funding the development of these platforms and user networks within which learning tools can be exchanged should be financially rewarding for investors. Q: How would you like to extend this research?... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
15 years old, and his extended family quickly swooped in to seize his assets—a common move known locally as a land grab. Dlodlo’s mother, who was left to raise five children single-handed, fought off her in-laws as long as she could. Eventually, however, she had to... View Details
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Harvard Business School
growth-stage entities in obtaining access to capital, with sources of funding ranging from banks to high net-worth individuals. Cleveland was a presidential appointee to the Small Business Administration's Investment Division, where he... View Details