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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Service Leadership Fellows Named
Valerie Bockstette, New Sector Alliance, Boston; Glen Brenner, Mayor’s Office, City of Boston; Juan Fernandez, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle; Jennifer Houston, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York; Monisha Kapila,... View Details
- July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Propel
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Food Stamps; EBT; Mobile App; User Research; Financial Services Referrals; Grocery Marketing; Customer Discovery; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Model; Research; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Welfare; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
perspectives and interests and will reach out extensively for alumni input and participation as planning progresses. This is an important opportunity for HBS to make a statement on the global stage about the impact our alumni have in leadership roles across all View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
confronting." Adds Schlesinger, who says he was not surprised when more than six hundred students signed up to take the course this fall, "The service sector is the only part of our economy that is growing. Students realize they need to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 May 2015
- News
A passion for education
Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001) brings her business know-how to the nonprofit sector as a partner at the Bridgespan Group and as chairman of her local school committee. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
what it’s like to be them, I hope it becomes possible for us to better support them.” Inspirational Philanthropy in America A History by Olivier Zunz “This book describes the incredibly important role that philanthropy and the nonprofit View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
For example, in “Reimagining Capitalism,” Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, examined how the private sector might play a major role in driving the systemic change needed to address big problems like... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), pictured In January, 50 HBS MBA students and 200 alumni and other business leaders gathered to discuss the business of artificial intelligence (AI). Over the course of four days, the hybrid global cohort analyzed cases, quizzed View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
Ah, Nairobi! I love my home city...every time I return home, I am inspired by how much has changed, and motivated by how much opportunity there still remains for change. My family has been involved in public service since Kenya gained independence, so I grew up with a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Internet, information services, and education. “What I learned from HBS is that you can be a philanthropic entrepreneur as well. I love that part.” Coutu spends two or three days a week in the philanthropic world giving back and creating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
private sector “more than it ever has before.” “One can only hope,” he writes, “that ideology will no longer be a stumbling block among the next generation of Chinese leaders.” How Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman (Harvard Business... View Details
- Fast Answer
Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship
Where can I find information to help me with my course work? Information on education and social entrepreneurship Research Task Suggested Resources Education Newsletters and Article Databases Chronicle of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
networking reception in New York City in January at Ten Degrees bringing together alumni working in the energy sector and current students to discuss the future of the industry, the latest innovations in the field, and new ventures. To... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
much one can, or should, plan out a career, and they shared concerns about the challenges they would face. Students took advantage of sessions designed to help them navigate specific sectors and to introduce them to lifelong career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
has one of the most dynamic K–12 education sectors in the country. The Los Angeles Unified School District has more charter schools than any other chartering agency, and [according to a 2014 report by Stanford’s Center for Research on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
top. A lot of the rhetoric about the need for an “intelligence czar” points in this direction. But we’ve seen in the private sector that, in highly turbulent environments, overly centralized organizations get overwhelmed by the View Details
- Profile
Yi-An Huang
internal consulting group. How is your current job related to your HBS experience? When I came to HBS, I had been working in global health and development issues. I had realized that healthcare is an exciting sector with powerful social... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
studying all aspects of the pandemic and are working with business, government, and social sector leaders—as well as with colleagues at Harvard and beyond—to offer insights, strategies, and best practices,” says Gary Pisano, senior... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at... View Details