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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Many HBS graduates are now leading companies and nonprofit organizations involved in the environment or sustainability – as entrepreneurs, innovators, financiers, or philanthropists. Following is a selected list of notable alumni and the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Profile
Scott Wu
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in... 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
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
which provides the school’s building rent-free, is currently funding an expansion that promises to more than double ASMS’s physical space. A 2007 Intel School of Distinction finalist, ASMS concentrates on math and science but its... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
oil and gas, but then experienced what I can only describe as a clear calling into the nonprofit sector emerge late in my second year. In April or May, I made the decision to go into a non-profit role. Around the same time, I discovered... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
OpenSecrets.org. Direct stock or bond holdings were straightforward to categorize as risky or not. For mutual funds Minor tapped investment industry experts to help him devise an algorithm to categorize the 10,000-plus View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Minding Families' Business
guidance," de Gaspé Beaubien says. In 1993, mindful of the challenges facing such families, he and his family founded a nonprofit organization, the Institute for Family Enterprise. Based in Montreal, the Institute (of which he serves as... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
and Neil P. Simpkins (both MBA 1992) Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins stepped up early in their class's 20th Reunion Campaign with a generous gift to establish a fellowship fund for students involved in the View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
benefits of the strong economy." The initiative, which some activists viewed as a challenge for other universities and institutions to emulate, will not only help local nonprofit housing groups directly but will also leverage far greater... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
the time, the panelists said. Andrea Silbert (HBS MBA '92), founder of a nonprofit called the Center for Women and Enterprise, which offers services and funding assistance to women entrepreneurs, said it's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital and private equity firms, WTI raised View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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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
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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
into what was happening on the ground,” Lucena says. Similarly, Druyan cautions against hasty reactions to the unexpected. During her time on the City of San Jose Pension Fund board, the CEO and CIO resigned within weeks of each other;... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
scholarships, supported by committed donors and foundation grants. EARTH is a private, nonprofit school that offers a four-year undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s degree in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
disposable and packs flat. Learn more. Longtime advocate for equity in school funding in the Chicago area, Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) knew that the people her nonprofit serves would be particularly hard... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature initiative is its Distinguished... View Details
Keywords: April White