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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society
senior leaders from business, government, and the nonprofit sector, alongside nine Harvard Business School faculty members. This roundtable generated a candid exchange of perspectives on the early outcomes of the United States' industrial... 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
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
the exceptions—scale to national size. Schumpeter's cycle apparently does not operate in the social sector. This paper proposes that the disparity arises from the nonprofit sector's historically immature infrastructure and poor mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
vision is that it will be an independent, nonprofit organization deriving its funding either from foundation or government grants, or from the sale of its information. Q: The typical U.S. investor is more... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on the labor market. Now a national initiative by Social Finance, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and... View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
they need. Learn more: Landscape: Innovative Trials The Pharma Nonprofit Sweet Spot 4. Investment and Venture: Innovating investment models can help to minimize risk, redefine value, and align incentives. Learn more: Convening the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Reaching New Heights
nonprofit to help build schools and libraries in Nepal and supply them with books, the Harbus reported. With expansion into Southeast Asia and soon into Latin America and Africa, Wood’s Room to Read has established 3,600 libraries, built... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
ineffective.” Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, in “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
finishing in the top 10 percent of nonprofits and foundations over the last 10 years, with annualized returns of 10.3 percent rate of return through December 2013. “We come in every day excited about how we’re investing the endowment for... View Details
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Henry McCance
Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with Boston philanthropists Jerome and Phyllis Rappaport. They introduced him to Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, a Harvard geneticist... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and nonprofit leaders who are keen on bringing their expertise to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned home from Russia in 1998 with their adopted daughter, Christina, they brought with them a desire to make the process easier for other families. They created Pathways for Little Feet, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
records. The Class of 1960, for example, raised $3 million in honor of its 40th Reunion, while those celebrating their 30th Reunion, the Class of 1970, had raised close to $5.4 million. Professor F. Warren McFarlan led a discussion on social enterprise in the... View Details
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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog
Private Equity Projects is a hybrid field and lecture series that provides the opportunity to work hands-on with leading private equity firms on "mutual value" projects and learn about the many things critical to success in PE beyond the... View Details