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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Rangan. "Their ideas, financial support, and energy provide much of the wind at our backs as we enter our third decade." For more information on the Social Enterprise Initiative and its 20 years of impact, visit... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. From a distance, the 2016 recipients of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award give the appearance of unmitigated success, and with good reason.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
as others in the same industry. In time, the discount will be corrected, and you will have the wind at your back as a holder of the stock. Do you set an annual return target? We think it’s madness to target a return. Return lies in some... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Northwest Harvest, Washington’s largest food bank, to help distribute food to people in need in Seattle. “It’s important for the club to give back to the community,” notes Kwiker, who also feels the event... View Details
- 27 Apr 2025
- News
Celebrating 40 Years of Kraft Family Fellowships
Robert Kraft (center) and Jonathan Kraft and Dean Srikant Datar (second row, center) gathered recently with Kraft Family Fellowship recipients and guests to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the first Kraft fellowship fund at HBS. Photos by Ethi... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
After three years, the pair sold their portfolio to Sutter Hill Ventures, and Johnson looked for a company to buy. Instead, he ended up back in the venture business, founding Asset Management Company in 1967. Over the ensuing decades,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
all people to give more to all of the organizations that they support, but donors should consider giving more to those that are closest to the frontlines and serve the most vulnerable. And unrestricted... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
I want to leave behind is to have more Tony Elumelus across Africa,” he says. “The way we’re going to create many Elumelus is not by just giving them food today so they can come back another day and ask for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
two as personal assistant to the legendary Siegmund Warburg, the firm’s founder and chairman. That was quite a postgraduate education. When I got homesick for America, Siegmund helped me land a job at Kuhn Loeb in New York. Wall Street was different View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
Had her mother not gone back to school to earn her college degree while raising two young children, Diamond Richardson (MBA 2019) might not have pursued higher education. “It taught me that you can do anything if you really put the effort... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
donors. Doing good doesn’t mean giving away all their money. In fact, if all goes according to plan, they’ll make some. Barared plans to have 1,000 booths in Mexico City mom-and-pop stores by the end of the year. (Courtesy of Barared)... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
beneficiary of the Fundación, it is important for me to give something back to the Fundación and to Mexico,” Ocejo says, citing both the mentoring and financial sustenance the organization offered him.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, now 15 years old. Back in 1993, most people took a "spray and pray" approach to philanthropy—writing checks to charities and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
of the Juvenile Justice Fund in Atlanta, which provides resources and services for youth and their families who are involved with the juvenile justice system. “I was able to come back and, with my case studies and notes as a guide, retool... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
enough to make me say yes to the offer. I joined the company as assistant to the president. But when the president lost his job, mine disappeared, too. Back in Michigan, my father had passed away, and my older brother became CEO of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
I knew there had to be a hitch when HBS invited its alumni volunteers — fund agents, reunion organizers, and my fellow Class Notes correspondents — back to campus in early November for two days of free food and learning. Sure enough, when... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
come from low-income neighborhoods.” While his background is in commercial real estate and corporate finance, since 2012 Majors has served as a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. Established in 2009 with View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Hindu/Muslim conflict. Designed for each computer to be shared by two to three students, the children work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. “The stories that have come back are incredible,” Mendhro says. “One of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
been an inspiration," commented Lumry, a devout Christian who said he is eager to "share our blessings from the Lord with Harvard." The family's ties to Harvard extend back to an ancestor, Calvin Ellis, who graduated in 1846 from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services