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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
innovative life-sciences companies, bring life sciences expertise to venture capital firms, help nonprofits provide essential medicines to poor and developing countries, and lead regulatory agencies. “We want our alums to change the world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
mitigating risks, pursuing new opportunities, and participating in the policy arena,” says Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. “You don’t have to work for an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development, together with Dan Björkegren of Brown University and Heiner... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
Beach in 1986—where a few dozen people watched an 8-foot high wooden man burn—Burning Man, now a nonprofit with a $36 million budget (and over 400 pieces of large-scale art to boot), saw some 70,000 Burners come together this year, united... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
sales, Anthony Curry Harris, and his director of international sales, Damaune Journey (MBA 2005)—are hoping to buy CSECO. Harris says that would certainly give him more time to serve on boards, such as the nonprofit SFJazz, which recently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
demonstrating the power of microfunding via the Internet. The concept packed such appeal that 150 requests from across the country poured in to expand Donors-Choose beyond its New York City base. Now what? The first order of business, says Goldman, is to figure out how... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
the Corporate Women's Network, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the YWCA. She has generously shared her talents with numerous nonprofit organizations, most notably the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In late 1999, Fudge... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6812.html. How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission As nonprofits add more for-profit elements to their business models, they can suffer mission drift. Associate Professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
DeRemate.com has founded an industry-wide nonprofit to advocate for the Internet. The company is also involved in supporting a government program that places computers in schools, with a goal of reaching eleven million young people by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
entrepreneurs have to make tough choices all the time. Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Women & Enterprise, advised, "Don't go with your gut without doing analysis." In contrast, Roxanne Quimby,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power and Influence The Moral Leader... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
and children that drew him to the company in 2008. Waldron had spent most of his career in the education sector, working for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in mission-driven and profit-driven settings. His experiences had... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
the Arctic ice to slow the effects of climate change. Leslie Field, who holds a PhD in electrical engineering and 58 patents, founded the nonprofit (formerly known as Ice911 Research) to develop the necessary technology. Field approached... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
by developing a nationwide network of entrepreneurs and educators. The NSVF will leverage the expertise and resources of these new-economy pioneers in order to assist promising nonprofit and for-profit K-12 education ventures. "The NSVF,"... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) and his wife, Simone, founded SecondBite, a nonprofit that feeds surplus food from growers and markets to more than a million needy Australians every month. “The role of the food is not just feeding people. It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details