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- 01 Feb 2000
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Short Takes
United States, and Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's biggest forest products companies. The two longtime foes decided to join forces in 1994 to create a landmark agreement enabling both of them to manage some forested wetlands in North... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
religious life at Stanford University, have developed several new frameworks to help businesspeople and clergy actively draw on their religious faith to address management problems. "Our goal is not to convince the church that it should... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leveraging her experience to serve her community
Nancy Gray (MBA 1988) is putting her management experience to work as a pro-bono consultant and volunteer for organizations that benefit her community. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
findings from the 1,020 responses: philanthropy is “extremely” or “very” important to more than 63 percent of respondents; a sense of responsibility is the primary motivation (84 percent); and almost half of the survey’s participants focus their attention on a few... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called Microsoft, Cash was closing in on his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
side, telling stories and getting to know each other, any fear and prejudice they may have felt before meeting is gone. This is the sort of scene that Alan B. Slifka (MBA '53) had in mind in 1989 when he cofounded The Abraham Fund, a nonprofit View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
initiatives. Recently, McGinn has taken a nuanced look at evidence that women in professional service organizations are more likely to be promoted when the firm's leadership includes significant numbers of women. Her analysis of five... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
working on crisis management with city officials. “We are working to end intergenerational poverty within a 100-block radius in central Harlem,” says Owusu-Kesse, who joined HCZ in 2008 and became COO in 2014. “Part of our ethos is,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
Marcus. Since 1998, the club has sponsored Community Partners, a program that links HBS alumni with nonprofit organizations in the New York metropolitan area that are seeking assistance with business and View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
organization to go beyond "very good" and attain and sustain excellence. In his latest book, he shares his hard-won insights and reveals what it takes to be best in class in any industry. Tech and the City: The Making of New York's... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
1997. “Sometimes our students arrive at HBS thinking they are the sum total of their résumés,” says DeLong. “In courses like Authentic Leader Development or the Interpersonal Skills Development Lab, we try to move them away from this stance, from image View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
nonprofit sector. SPNM is a week-long program designed to strengthen the capacity of nonprofit CEOs to lead their organizations effectively. "Nonprofit executives often work 24/7 and have little chance to gain a broader View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
our background check and credit review, and gets approval by an adoption agency, we will help them close the financial gap. It’s not a grant. It’s a loan based on the do-unto-others belief system,” he says. To date, Pathways has funded more than 250 family loans, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Recasting environmentalism as a smart financial investment
A former managing director and partner for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 24 years, Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) is inspired by the opportunity to help businesses, governments, and environmental organizations work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
impact? And how can Acumen build industrywide benchmarks on measuring returns in order to attract investors to the field? "I'm developing frameworks that can serve as diagnostic tools for organizations to help View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
Through UP Education Network, founder Scott Given (MBA 2010) is helping to turn around chronically underperforming Massachusetts schools by making and managing significant changes in all areas, from curriculum and schedules to personnel... View Details