volunteers - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

so that volunteers (often customers, but also others) can easily contribute content (opinions and ratings for Zagat guides), "stuff for sale" (eBay online marketplace), behavioral data (Google's search engine algorithm), and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

Limbaugh," Scher laughs. Through various Web sites, the company also helps coordinate volunteers with hundreds of nonprofit groups. Moreover, the Working Assets phone bill (which, Scher proudly points out, is printed on 100 percent... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

many Cicero employees now volunteer or work pro bono on company time mentoring, coaching, and training, as well as gathering and analyzing data to frame the best approaches to ending homelessness. One outcome of this work is a database... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 1997
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

in a wonderful Volunteer Conference, which drew a record gathering of class secretaries and correspondents, fund agents, and reunion program committee members. The conference provided participants with an update on current research and... View Details

09 Jan 2017
News

Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader

Austin Scee (MBA 2001) is the founder and CEO of Razorhorse Capital in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in college and through his time at HBS, he volunteered as a mentor with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America. In this interview, he talks... View Details

21 Dec 2017
News

Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead

especially, because that's where I worked––in trying to encourage more women in every field I've been in, and all of my volunteer work, and whatever. And especially women leaders. “What I say to young women embarking on their careers,... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Clubs Hopping

director Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), so the celebration commemorates not the conception but rather the execution. It's fitting: The organization matches local nonprofits with volunteer HBS alumni who help the groups build strategies to... View Details

Profile

Tim Nicolette

Inspire, a consortium of strategy consulting firms who organized a team of pre-MBA consultants who volunteered five to ten hours a week to educational nonprofits. After a year, Inspire asked me to serve as its executive director. In that... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government

Profile

Alexandra Stanek

McKinsey. I found the problem-solving aspect of consulting very interesting, and tried to get assignments, unsuccessfully, in Africa. After McKinsey, I joined TechnoServe, a nonprofit that uses business as a tool to affect poverty. In the course of three years in... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

17 May 2018
Blog Post

HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans

participation across the country in 2018, and of furthering engagement in our cities by having more veterans take on volunteer leadership roles. I’m also working with our national team to bring our third-annual Mass Deployment program to... View Details

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Rawiah Abdallah

were too many restrictions on freedom of expression," says Rawiah, "To be true to your principles was risky." Yet her volunteer work suggested an alternative direction. In high school, Rawiah tutored non-Arabic speaking... View Details

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Summer Venture in Management | MBA

or club Volunteering in the community Working as a Residential Advisor (RA) Being a team captain or other forms of athletic leadership Contributing to a nonprofit organization Spearheading a new initiative related to the community or... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)

City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

15 Dec 2020
Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

avoid relying on student loans.” Read More Introducing LivelyHood, a Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19“LivelyHood is a safe and simple platform that connects healthy, young volunteers with... View Details

22 Mar 2021
Blog Post

3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy

applies to volunteer work as well. “Call the Executive Director of a charity you want to engage with and ask if there are opportunities to volunteer or donate,” she advised. “Informational interviews can be... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Their Social Enterprise Ventures Benjamin Schedl Rea Savla Sophy Wang Teresa Danso-Danquah 07 Sep 2023 The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and se... Elevating Volunteer Service: SE... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)

in 2013. I was stationed in a tank unit out in Colorado Springs when the Vietnam War started up. I didn’t think I wanted to be in a tank in Vietnam, so I volunteered to go to flight school. Six months later, I was in combat. I was a... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

online than with the community outside their door. Companies often limit their community engagement to contributions to nonprofits or organizing volunteer opportunities. "Traditionally, the way these companies engage is through a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

accessible to them.” For all he was learning in his fast-paced career, Quainton was increasingly active in his church, where he volunteered to run a Bible study for the many men who were losing their jobs when the Houston economy tanked... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

the game.” As a student at MIT, Kundu took time out to volunteer as a science teacher in rural India. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India, especially—thanks to the success he’s had in his business... View Details