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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
applicable are skills learned at HBS for recent graduates facing real-world challenges? What are the differences and similarities for alumni who work in the private and nonprofit sectors, in large corporations vs. smaller organizations?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Weinberg this was an opportunity to go the other way and reach out to be helpful to the president, and he took it. In 1933 the president had him organizing the Business Advisory and Planning Council, through which corporate executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
the ‘Five Forces’ from Strategy and how we at The Mission Continues position our product and organization to veterans and donors in the nonprofit marketplace. More broadly, I rely on the tools I learned at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
global reservation systems, including Internet traffic, and overseeing the operations of a newly established pan-European call center that he designed and implemented. These high-tech business operations are a far cry from Club Med's humble beginnings in 1950 as a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
Helping people improve their lives is of utmost importance to Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013), and he’s using a nonprofit education center, Inspire Belief, to lift young people in South Africa’s poorest communities out of poverty and set... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
trainers to come to Spain, and his foundation has grown over the past 25 years to serve 1,500 people a year with a budget of more than 1 million. Meanwhile, Metrovacesa’s market capitalization has grown to nearly $6 billion during his seven-year tenure. Balancing his... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Living and Learning in a Local Context
“I'm the executive director at Pine Mountain Settlement School, which is a community development nonprofit located in one of the poorest regions in the United States, Harlan County. Our work spans four main areas––environmental education,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
York City, a nonprofit composed of some of the city’s largest private firms.) As a result, she is always on the lookout for sectors that the city ought to dominate but doesn’t. Eight years ago, the sector in Gotsch’s sights was fintech—a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the years,” says HBS professor Bill Sahlman, a contest organizer with faculty members Michael Chu, Joe... View Details
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
“Veterans often struggle to translate their time in the military into skills valued by civilian employers. The value is almost always there; they just need to communicate it more effectively,” says Goldenberg, executive director of the Call of Duty Endowment. The View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Management. The company soon became one of the nation's foremost database marketing companies, helping hundreds of America's leading membership organizations and nonprofit groups with their fundraising and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Science Buddy
ScienceBuddies.org, a nonprofit designed to engage high-school students in hands-on science. Because choosing and getting started with a science project is often the hardest part for youngsters, the site asks students 26 questions about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
highest-ranking woman in the AOL Time Warner organization — oversees more than 130 popular magazines, including the company’s high-circulation weeklies Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly, along with well-known... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, which focuses its teaching, research, and collaborative efforts on nonprofit organizations, other private social-purpose enterprises, and the role of business leadership in the social sector. In... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
provides capital from a pool of donations to a portfolio of curated organizations whose ethos align with four pillars of purpose: justice system reform, education parity, health and wellness access, and community outreach and social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
economic power to really shape the world, and that always stuck with me.” Rice subsequently founded a nonprofit organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), to help educate young people about, and prepare them for, business... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
organizations, including 10 who are presidents of their companies. In addition, three mentors are past scholars of the Club’s Social Enterprise Initiative, which sends local nonprofit leaders to Executive Education programs at HBS. With... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
during its virtual annual meeting on June 21. More than 700 HBSWANY members were invited to nominate a Rising Star from among the membership, which yielded 37 initial nominees, according to organizer Carmen Li (MBA 2016), HBSWANY board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley