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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
admission to HBS for two years while she worked in human resources for General Electric. She eventually matriculated at HBS, deftly juggling classes and childcare for her two young children. Fudge has spent a significant amount of time working with View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
ethos of concentrated ownership—the business group over the individual stock owner. After the "Licence Raj," the period of tight government control of the private sector that ended in 1991, corporate families could finally stretch... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
falsified invoices, and sham transactions by overseas nationals who place that money into outside secure accounts, mostly in U.S. institutions. Whether the individual behind these ill-gotten gains is a murderous "godfather," a corrupt View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
ask for IOUs in the form of savings bonds instead. In 2007, the federal government distributed tax refunds exceeding $248 billion to more than 114 million filers. Businesses have long capitalized on these refund dollars, which average... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure. After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
difference in people’s lives and doing that for a city is so tangible.” Koh and Osgood both found their way to the Mayor’s office through the HBS Leadership Fellows program. Open to all graduating second-year MBA students, the program provides up to 20 fellows a year... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
Connecticut native, Bremer serves on several boards, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the founder and president of the Lincoln/Douglass Scholarship Foundation, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit that provides... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
leading figure in the nonprofit world. The first priority for the site is a memorial, all agree, but after that, there is much disagreement. "The size of the plot is not nearly as important as the nature and quality of what is built... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they... View Details
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- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
founder and CEO of Social Finance, a Boston-based nonprofit established in January to introduce SIBs to the United States. A companion organization with the same name is based in London. With governments... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
prosperity and bring it closer to parity with its European neighbors. The nonprofit identifies challenges and opportunities, then brings together experts to draft actionable policy proposals to pitch to the government. The hope, Xydi... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
settles in Washington, D.C., for his new role as president and CEO of the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy, Merkl is eager to bring his formidable experience to bear on several major global initiatives. "Ocean Conservancy has had a series of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
governments, NGOs, foundations, and other international development organizations, to enable more effective decision-making. IDinsight has offices in three countries and works across a diverse set of development sectors. In India, IDinsight is helping to improve a $200... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
Nonprofit Management and Governing for Nonprofit Excellence: Critical Issues for Board Leadership. The two entities that issued Beyond Grey Pinstripes, the World Resources... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
in the academic literature, social scientists should focus their research on larger public problems. "That resonated with me," says Moss, who in 2005 founded the Tobin Project in collaboration with Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice Arthur Segel. An... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
only pays for results, and investors benefit only if society benefits. Successful SIB partnerships yield multiple winners: government gains accountability for taxpayer funds; high-performing nonprofits reap... View Details