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- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
cereal." Thanks to reunion volunteer Laurel Skurko (MBA '91), who enticed the Dean to share three of his favorite recipes, HBS alumni can try these everyday main course dishes. Channa Masala (Spicy Chickpeas) Ingredients (to serve 4) 2...
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- 21 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming Out and Finding Acceptance at HBS
in sharing their stories made it easier to have rich, authentic discussions with each of them personally, and within the section classroom more broadly. After discussing it with my partner, I volunteered to give my own talk in late...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
host of Web-based social enterprises (WEBSEs): nonprofit information hubs, online giving directories, click-to-donate sites, workplace-giving centers, charity shopping malls and auctions, and volunteer clearinghouses. These start-ups are...
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- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
in 1999 by Jimmy Wales under the name Nupedia, the service today claims 1.8 million articles in English, 4.8 million registered users, and 1,200 volunteers who regularly edit Wikipedia articles. Anyone can submit or edit an article, which...
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- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
several very large companies cannot, on their own, get us there. In fact, historically, no big environmental problem, from air and water pollution to acid rain or ozone depletion, has ever been solved by businesses volunteering to do the...
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by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
foreign investment, and community stability,” explains Raji, who was born in Nigeria. “My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort....
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
and Schrier’s successful volunteer effort evolved into a vision for a sustainable for-profit, social-impact company during HBS Startup Bootcamp in the winter of 2021. “We started with an idea for a solution, but we hadn’t had the...
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April White
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became...
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Jill Radsken
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
between local and national leaders. Wide use of volunteer labor makes worker motivation more of an issue. Up to 60 percent of a nonprofit CEO's time is spent fundraising, time that could be spent building a more effective organization....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. He asked his tour guide what could possibly be inside...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
for training on how to network and interview virtually. When all classes were moved online in less than two weeks, HBS sought to ensure a dynamic, interactive experience. Some 150 staff members from across campus volunteered to serve as...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
reorganized the center - once dependent on donations and the volunteer services of its ashram members - into a team-based organization of paid staff, volunteers, and live-in members who have taken religious vows. Instituting new financial...
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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
the same focus on children. But in addition to the city's focus on housing, it appears that a tradition of employee volunteering has developed. For example, Eaton has given an award for employee volunteers...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Power and Influence - Course Catalog
political or volunteer organization, as the focus of your paper. Option 2 If you have a job by the time you begin writing this paper or are choosing among alternatives, the final paper will give you an opportunity to apply the concepts...
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- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
recognized that it took tireless leadership and volunteer commitment by alumni throughout our club’s history,” Stidman says. “He expressed his heartfelt admiration and appreciation for the club. Just the fact that he took the time to...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
industries are represented, with a strong contingent from the financial and consulting communities. In terms of their involvement with the School, current Board members have participated in a number of volunteer capacities (thus the...
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Cathy Connett
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Boeing, he will keep mentoring future generations, including at HBS, and he’s excited to have more time to apply his leadership skills to his community as a board member and through volunteer activities. McNerney will also, no doubt,...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to campus for the Volunteer Conference in early November. The latter was a wonderful event that included updates on School initiatives and hands-on, practical sessions. The highlight was an extraordinary multimedia presentation, narrated...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
to a decision within a strictly limited time—just like real life!” A volunteer for his class's 40th Reunion planning committee, Bloom will have a chance to share additional HBS memories when the Class of 1972 meets on campus this October.
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- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
collaboration and training in the success of the students as well as the high rates of staff retention. (Though she was still grateful when some parents began to volunteer for lunch duty.) “It was a lot of small battles, a lot of blocking...
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