Volunteering - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble

business ideas are viable. Some two dozen mentors and advisers volunteered time to help 125 students from across Harvard fine-tune their projects and pitches. By Sunday night, the field had narrowed from 32 pitches to 13 presenting teams.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Too Cool for School

content provider, including large universities. Khan quit his finance job in 2009 and turned his full attention to his online, not-for-profit endeavor, Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org). The academy focuses on K–12 learning with a hands-on approach that uses automated... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

09 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

volunteered with many nonprofits over the years, and plans to stay connected to the nonprofit sector through volunteer service and/or fulltime work, getting nonprofit exposure at HBS has been very important... View Details

11 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning in the Education Sector

my internship so far, and am very impressed by the quality of people who work here and the impact KIPP has created in the community. My favorite part so far has been volunteering at a KIPP high school graduation. It was just an incredible... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

24 Apr 2014
News

Personal crises inform a life’s work

One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast Cancer... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

At Work in the Fields with the Lord

Allen told the Riverside Press-Enterprise (March 14, 2004). A leader of The Global Church, a nondenominational religious organization based in Perris, California, Allen was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1984 to 1986 and entered... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

23 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Celebrating National Coming Out Day at HBS

some encouragement from my friends, made me decide to share my story. When I got to Aldrich 111, I was pleasantly surprised to see that almost every seat was filled with classmates and professors who volunteered their time to hear our... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

and the City of Los Angeles, in addition to assisting nonprofits with their land and building challenges through his volunteer work. LA in three words: Diversity, unity, and talent. “It’s the world’s great urban laboratory, an example to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1999
News

Alumni Career Services Update

they're amazed at the breadth of the School's career services for graduates." In addition to a twice-monthly Jobs newsletter, available by subscription or free to alumni on the Web, these services include: Access to a list of more than 25,000 alumni who have View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Sep 2003
News

Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies

An effective job search needs to be enormously disciplined, says Neil S. MacKenna (MBA 1949). Over the last two decades, hundreds of HBS alumni have benefited from MacKenna’s experience as an outplacement professional and the founder of Career Assistance, Inc. MacKenna... View Details

10 Jan 2020
Blog Post

PRIDE in the HBS Community

opportunity. We kicked off the first week of October with the National Coming Out Day portrait project series. About a dozen or so members of PRIDE, including myself, volunteered to share our personal coming out stories alongside our... View Details

13 May 2014
News

Willing Hands

Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with Spencer and other members of his... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

Web

Tennenbaum Technology Operations Center | About

as a whole runs strong. He has donated his financial and volunteer resources to HBS and Harvard University with his funding of technology education and as a member of the Committee on University Resources at Harvard University, as a... View Details

Portrait Project

Stephanie Parker

I stood behind a wall of bananas, a fortress of fruit erected for the thousands of people participating in my volunteer event. As I stood there, banana in hand, I briefly pondered my situation. What am I doing here? Shouldn't leaders... View Details

01 May 2013
News

C. Bruce Johnstone, MBA 1966

Many generous donors support the School. Some go further, assuming responsibility for fundraising at HBS. As HBS Fund Chair from 1998 to 2003, Bruce Johnstone led almost 1,000 volunteers each year and helped set a succession of... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities

While working as an intern at LinkedIn, Ben Faw (MBA 2014) took advantage of the company’s InDay—an opportunity one day a month at work where one can explore new ideas or volunteer in the community—to support veterans. Faw, a veteran of... View Details

Profile

Gordon Ross

how HBS has changed his perspective, Gordon laughs. “How have I changed? How haven’t I changed! The classes, the section experience – everything is loaded with thunderbolt moments.” One particular standout is the New Orleans IXP trip in which Gordon View Details

Profile

Ann Lucena

debating and considering many viewpoints enriches my perspective," says Ann. "If I want to be a good leader, I have to consider all points of view, not just those I initially agree with." Still exploring Ann supplements her studies with her involvement... View Details

13 Mar 2020
News

Expanding Cancer Care

after graduating from Harvard Business School, I started to volunteer at Brigham and Women's Hospital. And then I ended up working there for a little while. And in working at Brigham and Women's, I actually realized that being in health... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

general manager. After failing to find appropriate materials through traditional sources, Garvin went directly to the front lines for relevant information: to HBS alumni who had recently made just such a transition themselves. In a mass e-mailing to HBS alumni, Garvin... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

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