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- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
Constance “CJ” Jones (MBA 2008) had a tough time as a student at her middle school in Durham, North Carolina. Often the only person of color in the academically advanced classes, she felt rejected by both her white and her black peers for... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
events, each attended by some 180 alumni in the region. Professor Suraj Srinivasan discussed COVID-19 crisis management and the outlook for business with Alain Bejjani, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Holding, a Dubai-based company that operates... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
our culture or managing key customers and investor relationships,” Gregg says. “I jokingly told someone I’m the spiritual center of the company. You need to embrace that aspect of the job to get people excited about being here.” Moment in... View Details
- Profile
Ari Medoff
business's founder, helping him manage transactions and operations for more than forty hotels in twenty-three states. Pursuing distinct careers "Many people come to the HBS/HKS joint degree program to find the intersection among... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets
industries and functions he could fulfill while living with Carolina in New York. "I looked at many roles in smaller industries," he says, before landing his current one at OnDeck Capital as a Manager of Strategic Initiatives. Carolina... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
diversity of professional experiences and personal stories created a great environment for learning and helped me expand my network.” Now a senior partner and the managing partner of McKinsey’s UK and Ireland offices, Hunt has used the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
attempted a career in professional sports, playing for a year with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But the lure of business ultimately proved stronger, pulling Graves to HBS, where he explored his interest in management... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
rigorous case discussion at any HBS section including people with knowledge of Iraq and the Middle East, we would never have gone to war. The best way to avoid post-conflict problems is to avoid conflict. If conflict were forced upon us,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
extension, mine,” he says. After earning a psychology degree from Boston College in 1998, Kennealey spent two years of community service in nearby Roxbury as a teacher at Nativity Prep, a tuition-free Jesuit middle school that serves boys... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-082 Sandra Brown Goes Digital (A): The Promise and Perils of Social Movements in a Healthcare Company As a middle View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details
- 30 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success
"how can we change the system to prevent refugee crises in the first place?" That insight pushed Josh to "look for a systems-wide, macro-level shift I could be a part of." Eschewing the Peace Corps path, he chose a career in investment banking where... View Details
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Kine Seck Mercier
studying physics and chemistry, she specialized in telecommunications “because it is one the most dynamic, innovative, and important industries in Senegal.” After graduation, she worked for France Telecom, where she managed strategy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
SUPERFAN When Sonnenberg attends a game, she often doesn’t watch the court or field. “I’m always intrigued by stuff that the public doesn’t necessarily think about—like the width of concourses and the mix of seating types,” she says. (Photo: Benjamin Norman) “In... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
change while building new capacity. While many countries, including the US, are in the middle of a “clean transition,” India is currently faced with the grand task of a “clean build:” two-thirds of India’s infrastructure has yet to be... View Details
- April 2025
- Teaching Note
Tabby: Winning Customers' Digital Wallets
By: Eva Ascarza
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-056. Tabby, a Saudi-based fintech founded in 2019, rapidly became one of the MENA region’s first unicorns by offering buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services with a unique twist: instead of charging end consumers, it partnered with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details