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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
the private sector. The one- or two-year postgraduate fellowships are indicative of the “growing desire on the part of our students to be involved in the public and social sectors,” said Professor W. Carl Kester, senior associate dean and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
tiny houses for short vacations, won the runner-prize in the business track. The New Venture Competition is hosted by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative and is open to all students and alumni... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
business leadership to accelerate social change COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: What does environmental leadership look like in the age of global warming? CODE BREAKERS: Increasing the number of women in positions of leadership READY, SET,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
upward of 1,000 alumni to consider the interweaving of the public and private worlds and the impact on financial markets, innovation and technology, executive compensation, and society as a whole. The forum will feature presentations by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
ability to analyze and identify the organizations that had the highest impact potential in democracy reform. So last year we embarked on an intensive effort to build a Democracy Market Map. We used comprehensive data from the IRS, the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
artist themselves. Why is that? At VIA, we work directly with artists, meeting as a group to learn, discuss, and vote on which projects we will support. In a sector where social impact is amorphous,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Breaking Up the All-Male Boardroom
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
social enterprise.” To a lesser degree, the FT also rewards schools that turn out MBAs with high-paying jobs in financial services, basing 40 percent of the ranking on salary growth three years out. Meanwhile, the paper’s editorial pages... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
http://www.andrewtobias.com/ (stock picks, investment & green strategies, social & political commentary, cool Web sites; archived since Dec. 1996) MBA 1974B Rick Walleigh, Walleighs’ Weekly Words, http://walleigh.com/Blog/ (travels;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
affordable housing, as well as the positive impact individuals can have by working as a team. Getting to know more about Habitat's smart model will help me immensely in thinking how to build a lasting contribution.” View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) Over time and experience, Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) has developed an approach to philanthropy that bridges both his professional and personal lives, delivering impact to both. He... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
Amy Schiffman Langer "My life experiences inform my work, and vice versa," says Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977). She has turned physical challenges—breast cancer, a disability, and chronic pain—into a focus on cause-marketing and advocacy. "I've parlayed my misfortunes... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute of Technology and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bradford (MBA 1982) Short Hills, NJ Don’t Punish Success I disagree with Mr. LaMagna 100 percent. First, numerous studies have documented that increasing capital gains taxes negatively impacts capital formation. A decrease in capital... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
she will help launch a new Business in Global Society (BiGS) Institute. BiGS will serve as a hub and provide support for research in this arena, and ensure that the faculty’s work can have maximum impact and reach the widest possible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
and social service organizations, Stafford, who grew up as one of twelve children of a Baptist minister, invited his guests from all over the country and provided beauty treatments and formal evening wear for two gala balls he organized... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The... View Details