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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Creating a Pipeline of Talent to Address the World’s Challenges
Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) is founder and CEO of ProInspire, a nonprofit that develops leaders for the social sector. The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently named ProInspire, which gives paid fellowships to highly qualified professionals,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Building Community in the Bay Area
skills into community service. Since that time, more than 400 HBS alumni have volunteered business consulting assistance to over 150 nonprofit organizations throughout the Bay Area, including museums, symphonies, and social service and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
Karen Fonseth (GMP 19, 2015) is CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes (DASCH), a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates more than 50 residential and outreach programs for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In... 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 and expectations. In this video,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
The eldest in a family of six daughters (four of whom attended HBS), Elaine L. Chao came to New York City from Taiwan at the age of eight. She adapted to her new home quickly, learning English and excelling academically. Since attending Mount Holyoke and HBS, she has... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- News
Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names President’s Challenge Fund
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
Let's Talk Resilience
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
contrast, "upstream" social capital -- team members' ties to important research institutions -- had no impact at all on the new organization's success. "In this industry," Higgins theorizes, "upstream connections may indicate that the... View Details
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- 30 Sep 2020
- News
How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Promising Starts
Eight Class of 2011 MBAs will spend the coming year working in key management positions with nonprofits and public-sector organizations with support from the School’s Leadership Fellows Program. This year’s fellows are (front row) Alisa Seewald, Year Up; Clive Chang,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
Courtesy Justine Smyth Courtesy Justine Smyth Justine Smyth (PMD 77, 2002) remembers a time when no one in New Zealand talked about breast cancer. It was 1980, and her mother, just 45 years old, had been diagnosed with the disease. “We weren’t allowed to tell anyone,”... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
Roger Webb (MBA 1961) is the founder and chairman emeritus of the Architectural Heritage Foundation in Boston and was instrumental in launching Preservation Massachusetts, a statewide nonprofit historic preservation organization. In this video, he discusses the origins... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Hi, I'm Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and editor of the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Today's episode offers an inside look at Burning Man. One of the things you'll hear is that while the event celebrates... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Connie Baher (MBA 1980) I was standing in New York’s Asia Society Museum when I saw it. A high school kid from Connecticut, I’d taken the train to the big city and was nosing around an exhibition of... View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- News
Rena Clark: Making A Difference
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
(photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) (photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) Much has happened in the ten years since Sal Khan (MBA 2003) started making short videos to tutor his niece in math, an offhand effort that snowballed into Khan Academy, an online education nonprofit that offers... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects. To date, the BTN’s nurse... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA ’09), cofounder of micro Home Solutions, is the 2011 recipient of the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Based on the principles of community involvement, affordability, and sustainable design, the New Delhi–based... View Details