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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
the thousands of local nonprofit executives to attend the SPNM program. Since 2004, clubs have funded the tuition for more than 400 SPNM participants. Funding is actually just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
officials, nonprofit leaders, and business executives, they kick-start that process by coming together for four days—and learning to speak each other’s language—in a Hawes Hall classroom. You can see it starting to happen in a discussion... View Details
- 12 Aug 2013
- News
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
- 09 Dec 2014
- News
Can Your Movie Change the World?
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
able to contribute anything new? There was also the issue of how to fund this new venture. None of the existing medical nonprofit strategies seemed right for him. There was the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Development Goals. So, after more than three decades in the travel industry, Khan turned his digital know-how to education with the launch, in 2016, of the nonprofit Teach the World Foundation. “All human progress is a function of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
comes from infrastructure that the nonprofit and its local partners install, which provides jobs and benefits communities as well as schools. “We focus on country-wide rollouts where philanthropy and aid View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
right? We're fully trained to say, look at the environment around you. First of all, just map it out. What is the landscape that you're seeing? And for the nonprofit sector, you have to say, what is everybody already doing that you don't... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
investment success. “The initial funding was $7.5 million; one of our first investments was $250,000 in Intel.” Apple corps: “We invested early in Apple, purchasing 10 percent of the company in 1979 for $300,000. Serving on the board for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
the challenge. “When Elizabeth shared her experience and her ideas, I basically said, ‘How can I help?’” Klein says. “To me there was such a compelling need.” Many other HBS sectionmates supported the startup with seed funding to launch... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
Philippine society is in keeping with the company's tradition of social outreach through the Ayala Foundation, a $22 million nonprofit focused on improving public education, enhancing cultural and historical pride, and building young... 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
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fueling the Faculty Pipeline
“full trust in the School’s administration,” and understands the importance of flexible funding to HBS’s ability to fulfill its mission. The School’s response to COVID-19—creating hybrid classrooms, offering... 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
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
internationally, buying and bringing efficiency to some previously nationalized power plants and utilities. Over the years, as Sant's business grew so too did his personal commitment to society. When AES went public in 1991, Sant and his wife, Vicki, launched The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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