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01 Dec 2005
News

What’s Next for You?

to sustain.” Once that internal motivation is identified, the transition to a new role — whether in the corporate world or in areas such as academia, government service, or the nonprofit sector — can still... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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HBS Club of Chicago Charitable Fund: Working with Chicago Children’s Choir | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS Club of Chicago Charitable Fund: Working with Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee Job Title President & Artistic Director, Chicago Children’s Choir Location Chicago, IL, USA Topics Nonprofit Strategy & View Details

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (52) Submit People Alumni Executive Education Faculty MBA Students Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing K-12 Education Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector Social... View Details

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

to government and nonprofit agencies. Businesses have little involvement in how these donations are used. In fact, this model actively discourages companies from taking an interest in results. Companies... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Dec 2009
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Prof’s Dream Comes True

Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D) that has worked for years to... View Details

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Danelle Radney

Minnesota Christian groups “into one organization with centralized governance so that we could leverage our resources together.” She had already turned a summer merchandising internship at Target – “where I was the youngest intern, at... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

the organization as it has forged educational partnerships with numerous businesses and become the country's leading nonprofit resource for breast cancer information and education. NABCO is now a powerful force in patient advocacy,... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

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Phillip Andrews

Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is formerly a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as the Energy, Cleantech,... View Details

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01 Dec 2008
News

Summit Sound Bites

is, ‘What is your strategy for going global?’ ” —Robert Higgins (MBA ’70), Senior Lecturer, HBS; Founder, Highland Capital Partners “Advice, help, experience — you have it to give. You don’t have to have money to be involved in the View Details

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Affordable housing resources

Affordable Housing Institute National Housing Institute: Research Habitat for Humanity Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University National Association of Realtors: Housing Affordability Index Websites View Details

26 Aug 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities

it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, the company would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2006
News

Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research

expedition came to joint-degree student John Serafini (HBS and Kennedy School of Government 2007) after his sister’s bout with thyroid cancer. She was successfully treated at Children’s Hospital Boston last June. Grateful for her... View Details

Keywords: pediatric cancer research; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

it,” says Tuce, “going from a huge company to one with just thirteen shops. You can see how everything is related: marketing, operations, government relations, finance.” Ultimately, Tuce’s team advised the stand operator, based on... View Details

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Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager... View Details

August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
Case

Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to ROAR?

By: Noam T. Wasserman, Julia Taylor and Yael Braid

Earl Martin Phalen is in the midst of starting his second non-profit organization, Summer Advantage, by implementing the lessons he learned from BELL, the non-profit he had founded and run for the prior 15 years. His aspirations for Summer Advantage were to make it... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Development; Financial Management

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A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

future, I can imagine combining my consulting experience with work for school districts, education companies, or foundations. Jeffrey Shaddix Job Title Principal, The Boston Consulting Group Location Houston, TX, USA Topics K-12 Education View Details

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Propose an Independent Project | MBA

independent project. See form below. Late-August Students return to campus; those interested in an independent project will approach a faculty advisor and will contact the organization directly. Mid-December Term Ends. Project delivered to organization. Winter View Details

15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (A)

By: Anette Mikes, Peter Tufano, Eric D. Werker and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

Rising food prices threatened an unprecedented number of people around the world with malnutrition or starvation in 2008. The new Executive Director of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP)—the world's largest food relief agency—must not only address this... View Details

Keywords: Food; Globalized Firms and Management; Nutrition; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare