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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
aspirations, serve as stewards who know the organization in all its dimensions, and make decisions that create value for all stakeholders—owners, employees, customers, and society. The goal is not just achieving short-term success but... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
have founded schools, and have gotten their companies involved in tutoring and other in-school activities in their local communities. Scores of alumni serve on their local school boards or work with education-related organizations and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
scholarships to study in Canada and the United States. Recently named a “Global Visionary” by the Swiss bank UBS, Balares is founder and CEO of Womensphere Foundation, a nonprofit that supports women’s advancement in leadership,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
seed capital and piloted MLT’s initial programming. Over the past 20 years, MLT has provided professional coaching and a high-performance playbook to 15,000 individuals and developed over 1,000 senior executive leaders across the private and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
those who have not founded companies have served on corporate and/or nonprofit boards, including current service in more than 140,000 organizations across the globe. Non-founders who responded to questions... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
podium at HBS on November 9 during the Springboard: New England 2001 venture capital forum to pitch their businesses to some 200 investors in the audience. Organized by the Washington, D.C.- based nonprofit... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
boards of several Boston organizations, including The Windsor School, MATCH Education, the Telluride Foundation, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), which she describes as "all incredible, impact-oriented nonprofit View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
organizations and advocates like the New York City Department of Small Business Services, nonprofits that support small businesses, and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, a national effort to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
Organized in conjunction with the Centennial, the event drew nearly ninety faculty and practitioners from around the world. A conversation with Khurana follows. What was your goal in organizing this event?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
five-year plan, and I can't analyze things with spreadsheets. I get bored." The same has held true for how Wyss has approached his career. Asked if he ever thought he would spend thirty years building a medical device company into a $2.3 billion View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
Keith Hammonds (MBA 1986) is president and COO of the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit dedicated to helping journalists and news organizations focus in-depth reporting on solutions to critical civic... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
numbers. In truth, she argues, there’s no such thing as a “math kid,” and everyone is capable of numeracy, with the right support. That’s the message of her first book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, published in August 2024 by Penguin Random House. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
sportswriter Brian Phillips wrote in the New York Times. “The next thing I want to see from United States soccer is a jackhammer, not a news conference.” “It was heartbreaking,” says Carlos Cordeiro (MBA 1980), who at the time was vice president of US Soccer, the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
will know exactly what’s being asked and how to do it safely. Minden founded the nonprofit in 2019, as a second act after his own military career. He’d gone straight from his New Jersey high school to West Point, then commissioned as an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
passion for this nonprofit led him to get involved as a volunteer. That passion, as well as his experience in business and as a board member for one of OB’s four wilderness schools, made him an ideal candidate for the president’s position... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Jennifer McCrea and Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), with Karl Weber (Deepak Chopra) This book is a guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause. Through personal stories, many innovative suggestions, and inspiring examples, the authors... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Decade of Change
experience high-impact management positions at 44 nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary, the funding of which is shared between HBS and the participating... View Details