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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
volunteers between the ages of 16 and 25—to boost enrollment, retention, and learning outcomes for all girls. Since its launch, Educate Girls has expanded to 4,600 villages with 8,500 schools and has impacted 2.8 million children in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
student volunteers from the Communications, Media, and Computing Ventures Club who organized seven provocative panel discussions and a number of leading-edge product demonstrations and entrepreneurial workshops. The two-day event... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
properties are being rehabilitated both privately and through nonprofit programs, and residents volunteer their labor to help with face-lifts. A commercial developer has recently proposed an office complex and a plan for 135 affordable... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
have the volunteer labor of a great steering committee and board to help us reach this goal," comments Young. In addition to connecting alumni with each other, both clubs help foster a better relationship between alumni and the School.... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
month to receive $25 Volunteering for 12 days and receiving $25 without prior notice Refugees will survey members of their community about how they spend their days. To test whether reducing near-term uncertainty improves well-being, some... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
first year in New York and then moved to London, where she worked on projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In 2010, she took a sabbatical, returning to West Africa to volunteer with TechnoServe’s Ivory Coast office, where she... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni volunteers through the club system. Perry Driggs (MBA '61) skillfully led the Lifelong Learning Committee in discussions on how alumni perceive lifelong learning, what role HBS might play in that arena, and how best to market the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Celebrating National Coming Out Day at HBS
some encouragement from my friends, made me decide to share my story. When I got to Aldrich 111, I was pleasantly surprised to see that almost every seat was filled with classmates and professors who volunteered their time to hear our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
and the City of Los Angeles, in addition to assisting nonprofits with their land and building challenges through his volunteer work. LA in three words: Diversity, unity, and talent. “It’s the world’s great urban laboratory, an example to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Alumni Career Services Update
they're amazed at the breadth of the School's career services for graduates." In addition to a twice-monthly Jobs newsletter, available by subscription or free to alumni on the Web, these services include: Access to a list of more than 25,000 alumni who have View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
An effective job search needs to be enormously disciplined, says Neil S. MacKenna (MBA 1949). Over the last two decades, hundreds of HBS alumni have benefited from MacKenna’s experience as an outplacement professional and the founder of Career Assistance, Inc. MacKenna... View Details
- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
west coast, I will always have a supportive HBS family. There are over 6,000 active HBS alum in NorCal, many of whom volunteered to participate in WesTrek – whether by leading company visits, coffee chats, or attending our annual alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
executives who participated in the Management Development Program, a course offered for the first time in the fall of 2003 by the HBS Alumni Association of Charlotte. Taught by volunteer HBS alumni — local leaders in their respective... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
war, neither of which add to the net wealth of the world as a whole. And GDP remains unaffected when people volunteer to help those in need or simply carry on the daily voluntary activities needed to keep a family together. But that isn’t... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
participate in the HBS curriculum. As members of a mock board of directors, alumni volunteers work with small teams of students who act as case protagonists and propose solutions to issues facing their company. MBA students and alumni... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
of Ogilvy Consulting, who praised the contributions of some fifty volunteers as well as top sponsors Accenture and Citigroup Private Bank. "We are determined to move forward and make a difference. I believe everyone walked away with a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
to volunteering for a potential "suicide mission"-as one journalist put it-as the 45th commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. By the late 1990s, the IRS had become accustomed to being excoriated from all sides. Errors were... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Response, the organization has drawn on the knowledge of 1,200-plus MBA volunteers from 20 schools to help small businesses and nonprofits navigate challenges through the pandemic. “There’s a history of student involvement with large... View Details