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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
employees. “It is an honor to be Harvard Business School’s first Social Entrepreneurship Fellow,” Scharpf says. “These resources will help SHE succeed during this critical phase of our pilot rollout.” The Social Enterprise Fellowship will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
A Roundabout Path To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without the support that a View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using technology to create a platform for discussion
want to be a good example to other women in the tech industry.” Now a product manager at LinkedIn, Leung has a background in physics and economics, but her interests in technology and media steered her toward the professional goal of “building cool products that people... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
C. Bruce Johnstone, MBA 1966
to give back, so I worked with administration and development people to figure out the best way to do so. For the past 12 or so years, I've focused on fellowships. Supporting fellowships is a very direct way to give back where you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
we cause it.” — Harvard professor George Whitesides, as quoted in the HBS case “The Whitesides Lab” by HBS professor Kent Bowen and former Lecturer/Postdoctoral Fellow Francesca Gino Related Links A Binary Formula HBS Creates Life Sciences View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building business for a better Brazil
education. In 1991, with Sicupira and Telles, Lemann cofounded Fundação Estudar, a nonprofit organization supporting talented young Brazilians who show potential for contributing to Brazil’s development. At Harvard University, where Lemann has endowed a professorship,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the Social Enterprise View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard University is ripe with new advances in science and technology. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a complex... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect
The creation, commercialization, and scaling of science-based enterprises will be a crucial segment of the global economy in the decades to come. Harvard Business School—through its educational programs, the research of its faculty members, and activities and resources... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
come together to plan an event or activity that will recognize and continue their ongoing commitment to social enterprise — a history that includes efforts as diverse as volunteer consulting, fundraising, community events and programs, and scholarships that have funded... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
and supported. The other big part of the School, of course, is the students. Our 25th Reunion gift, The Class of 1976 Fellowship Fund, is designed to help deserving students with scholarship assistance." Far from being a thankless task,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Sid Yog, MBA 2004
of things that you didn't think you'd be able to. It enables you to take greater risks. It enables you to dare to do mighty things. It enables you to translate dreams into reality." But it's not enough to translate his own dreams; Yog wants to promote other dreams as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
members and raise funds for worthy causes. In addition to the Menzies Scholarship, the clubs have recently initiated Nonprofit Fellowships that send CEOs, executive directors, and other top managers to HBS to attend the Strategic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
professorships and fellowships. Only the remaining 13 percent is unrestricted—$19 million in FY17—and can be used to help fund new ideas and initiatives. An enduring investment: Donors who establish an endowed fund at HBS take the long view. For example, the Paul W.... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Announces 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows
Dan Ahlstedt (MBA 2021), Nicole Black (PhD 2020), Ying Kai Chan (PhD 2015), Jannine Versi (MBA 2014), and Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA 2021) Photos by Susan Young HBS has named its 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eighth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact
hesitant about applying to HBS to further his education, but learning about the School’s generous financial aid policy prompted him to go forward. “I’m honored and extremely humbled by the opportunity that this fellowship has given me,”... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
venture in 2008 after winning the School's Social Enterprise Conference competition, "Pitch for Change." Falik also received the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship in 2009. Ultimately, Falik envisions a world in which a bridge year... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
Seeing obstacles women face, particularly in Middle Eastern countries, is what drove Isik Kececi Asur and her husband, Mustafa, to endow an MBA fellowship designated for female entrepreneurs from Turkey and Lebanon. “Supporting women to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
and fundraising for scholarships to attend social enterprise-focused Executive Education programs or fellowships for MBA students. While HBS alumni clubs worldwide have long been engaged in their local communities, their activities have... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
for school, to set him on his way. Deploying what he learned at HBS, Magwegwe set up Inspire Belief to give young people in the poor community of Orange Farm the opportunity to get a secondary or tertiary education. The program provides scholarships and View Details