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- 20 Dec 2010
- News
Following a Passion
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
take it to heart. Says Downing, a married father of three who has spent more than a decade volunteering in the poor urban neighborhoods of nearby Akron, “My true heroes are the pastors, social workers, doctors, and nurses who volunteer in... View Details
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Ellen Harris
Ellen (HGSE ’86) is the Director of Outward Bound Professional/Facilitator at Thompson Island Outward Bound Professional where she is responsible for business development and corporate team and leadership development. Ellen enjoys working... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
influence one another. It is leading to advice and training designed to change behaviors that influence perceptions and possibly even increase job opportunities and on-the-job success. The work of Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
firsthand experience: He spent seven weeks during January and February helping the field leadership of five United Nations relief agencies develop overall strategy and serving as deputy director for Mercy Corps, an innovator in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Initiative, which was launched in 2005. Its mission is to foster and promote faculty research, support the development of high-impact educational programs, and create an interconnected health care community. Slavin has served on the... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
can also gain hands-on work experience in sectors and/or functional areas that you are interested in, as you simultaneously grow your network with business leaders and other current MBA students. As you’re working with HBS Career & Professional View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
processes through which my colleagues in the Social Enterprise group at HBS develop and share the intellectual capital that we are continually generating. My current work involves e-philanthropy as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
organizations develop sustainable strategies for effecting social change. With offices in Boston and San Francisco, the organization is developing plans to expand to Chicago... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! The Personal Touch Donor Spotlight FAQ Associate Professor Nava Ashraf, the MBA Class of 1966 Research Fellow, exemplifies one of the many HBS faculty members who is actively overturning prevailing assumptions to View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
important to the defense side as to the attacking side. Novartis has 138 drugs in its pipeline, more than any of its competitors. How has the company become so successful at creating a culture of innovation? Initially, we spent a lot of time integrating View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
members and produced by HBSHAA staff. Access to the VRT series is included in the annual HBSHAA membership. Now in its 19th year, the HBSHAA continues to develop ways to enable its alumni in the health care industry to “keep connected and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
parcel of land in a rapidly growing city of some 14 million people with one of the highest real estate values in the world. In “Dharavi: Developing Asia’s Largest Slum,” HBS assistant professor Lakshmi Iyer and lecturer John Macomber... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
Education Network, the Gates Foundation, New Schools Venture Fund, and the Harlem Children's Zone have in common? Our HBS friends work there. The education sector needs talent and expertise from a variety of different fields with a variety of different perspectives.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
associate dean for International Development at HBS, and a member of Satyam’s board. Palepu recalls that he was intrigued by the idea, but skeptical that it would work. But where Palepu saw potential obstacles, Raju simply saw management... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Fran Seegull by Jill Radsken Fran Seegull is a woman on a mission, and it started with a paper she wrote at Harvard Business School. A lifelong passion for philanthropy brought Seegull (MBA 1998) to HBS, to see if she could mobilize the business world to adjust its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
think back to when I was as an MBA 20 years ago, that's something that has distinctly changed. There are more people who link social causes with their businesses now." Wilcox gets to see those young, View Details