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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni volunteers through the club system. Perry Driggs (MBA '61) skillfully led the Lifelong Learning Committee in discussions on how alumni perceive lifelong learning, what role HBS might play in that arena, and how best to market the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
host of Web-based social enterprises (WEBSEs): nonprofit information hubs, online giving directories, click-to-donate sites, workplace-giving centers, charity shopping malls and auctions, and volunteer clearinghouses. These start-ups are... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
to volunteering for a potential "suicide mission"-as one journalist put it-as the 45th commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. By the late 1990s, the IRS had become accustomed to being excoriated from all sides. Errors were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
while I was making the decisions. Let’s just say,” he notes, “I’m a big believer in serendipity.” Murphy went to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer after graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in business and working briefly... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes and rolling blackouts, so Dawe View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
director of HBS Alumni Communications, to develop an in-depth, informative, and lively CD-ROM presentation about HBS that can be delivered effectively by alumni volunteers through the club system. Two other significant committee... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
of teacher collaboration and training in the success of the students as well as the high rates of staff retention. (Though she was still grateful when some parents began to volunteer for lunch duty.) “It was a lot of small battles, a lot... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
he recalls. “What I kept thinking about was that I absolutely love flying.” So Hamilton set about figuring out a way to get into the aviation industry and make a living. He renewed his pilot’s license, bought a Diamond Star four-seater plane, and View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to the community financially and through volunteer positions on local boards).... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Cherokee—is the first woman. It's an epic history that has its continuing point at this moment in late July, in an unassuming volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
Fulbright Fellow, Jefferson was posted to Singapore to study how public sector leadership is exercised in that country’s multi-cultural environment. As part of that assignment, he interviewed some of Singapore’s senior leaders and also did View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
body, which he joined as a volunteer in 2007 after a lengthy career in global finance, including more than 25 years at Goldman Sachs. “For many of us, it was another reminder that things needed to change—not just with the men’s team but... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Fortune 500 companies, and studied the nonprofit involvement of executives in twelve companies. He found that 81 percent of the Harvard MBAs were volunteering and that 57 percent of the surveyed graduates were active board members. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
71, 1975), chairman of Tata Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates. With Tata’s support, Gandhi started the Indian chapter of AIESEC, a nonprofit organization that helps young people learn leadership skills through global internships and View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sense here that, if there is a problem, you don’t just complain and wait for government to step in,” he continues. “It’s on your conscience to solve it. That’s something we want our children to embrace. One of our daughters is in college now, and she is doing View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
result, we are committed to listening and learning from our diverse members and community stakeholders. We are eager to tap into the creativity, passion, and innovation of club volunteers who will ultimately help us craft meaningful... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
time about intensifying the commitment of alumni and friends, creating new supporters, and identifying emerging volunteer leadership. A campaign is inevitably a defining moment—an opportunity for institutional reflection, analysis, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
miracles. Do you think business leaders can help with education reform efforts? Serge Vartanov (MBA 2012) @svartanov: Absolutely! HBS alums help by joining nonprofit/charter boards, running for school boards and volunteering to help in... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
people he wanted to hurt, or why he must hurt them,” she recalls. That moment in December 2007 set in motion Mendhro’s vision for the Dreamfly, a global initiative designed to educate, expose, and empower people living in communities of conflict. A View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken