Community Partners - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

lecturer at HMS. It was Binagwaho who, in 2005, invited Farmer and his grassroots medical organization, Partners In Health (PIH), to work in her country, based on PIH’s success in Haiti. The Rwanda case discussion was led by one of its... View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Meet the Tech Club - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 05 May 2025 Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat Author MBA Students tag General High Technology Other Technology Student & Alumni Stories Student Clubs Technology What We Do The mission of the Tech Club is to educate the HBS View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

by connecting with faculty and alumni from other parts of Harvard. “The challenge of addressing climate change will require an interdisciplinary approach,” Grant observes. At the San Francisco event, titled “The Role of Business Leaders in the Age of Climate Change,”... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

02 Jan 2018
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Bringing Teachers to All of America

sure that rural classrooms and high-poverty districts have strong teachers for critical-needs subjects. In many of the districts that we work with, with many of the partners we have, you have brilliant young children, but there is not a... View Details

19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

Clubs News Clubs News Nonprofit Board Summit Digs Deep, Expands Reach Virtually In their first-ever national conference collaboration, the Community Partners programs of the HBS Association of Boston, the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2014
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Cross-Class Connection

Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us see the connection between support of the HBS Fund and the priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how the digital revolution has improved health care discovery and delivery. Digital Transformation of Health Care The “TraceTogether” case highlights the efforts of protagonist Jason Bay who, with his... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

United States. Amelia Angella, MBA 2001, Executive Director of Boston’s Community Action Partners (CAP) program (also celebrating its 20th anniversary), notes that since CAP’s founding “more than 1,000... View Details

31 Jan 2025
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New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1999
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HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed

is the Community Partners (CP) program of the HBS Association of Northern California. Founded in 1986, CP has involved more than four hundred alumni in providing pro bono consulting services to nearly 130... View Details

01 Dec 2000
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The Birds and Bees in China

and other youth-oriented entertainment. It's all designed to create a friendly, nonthreatening environment in which to explore a generally taboo subject. The Chinese Family Planning Association has even agreed to partner with Kenny to... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

their name. “I always had the naive confidence that I’d be successful,” he says, “so I just put one foot in front of the other, built my network, and made the best long-term decisions I could.” “Tim is pathologically optimistic,” says John H.N. Fisher (MBA 1991), who... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground

began to change in 2009, when a community activist challenged Shumway to get more deeply involved in addressing the issue. He responded by applying the same evidence-based problem-solving approach Cicero uses with its corporate clients... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2017
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Case Study: Confidence Builder

will have a better chance of trying to partner with them to capture as much of that revenue as possible. However, if Confi can work with students, it may be able to indirectly influence the schools to increase their annual budgets to... View Details

Keywords: April White; Confi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
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HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI

Stan Williams, leading nanotech researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, must decide whether to renew the firm's sponsorship of California NanoSystems Institute, spend the funds on internal R&D, or fund foreign universities. Illustrates the challenge of managing... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business and Community Relations; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; California

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Affinity Groups | Employment

and staff, and help them learn to listen to those who believe differently. This listing shows the many faith communities that meet at or near Harvard. Spouses & Partners Harvard Students’ Spouses and View Details

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Student Life | MBA

Student Life An Inside Look at How Student Life Unfolds Activities, Government & Clubs Community People Virtual Campus Tour A Residential Campus HBS is the only top business school in the country with a residential, self-contained campus.... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Helping high achievers achieve even more

As cofounder of Summit Partners, E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) spurred economic growth and created jobs in a broad range of industries, from fiber optics to pathology laboratories, to electronics and semiconductor manufacturers. Established in 1984, Summit View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

crowdfunding. We asked Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001), a partner at The Bridgespan Group—nonprofit advisor to mission-driven organizations and leaders—and author of “Galvanizing Philanthropy” (Harvard Business Review, November 2009), to... View Details

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