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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
seventy HBS students who participated in the HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Program, which gives financial support to MBA students who choose to work in the public and nonprofit sectors during the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be kidding me. So the first thing is... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture Contest. Clubs in Boston, Brazil,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2015
- News
Meet the 2015 Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
John Rice (MBA 1992) founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit organization, to equip underrepresented minorities with the skills, coaching, and relationships they need to become high-impact leaders in corporations, nonprofits, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Big Brothers
In 1970, Anthony Carter was nine when he was first paired up with Steve West (MBA 1968) through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters (BBBS) organization in Cincinnati. West had become a BBBS volunteer because, he told the Cincinnati Post (July 3, 2004), “I had been very... View Details
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
The Joys of Cooking
THE JOYS OF COOKING: Bibi Kasrai (MBA '96) has hit an entrepreneurial sweet spot as the Harvard Cookie Girl. After years in high-tech marketing and non-profit fundraising, Bibi Kasrai (MBA ’96) found a way to blend her talent for business with her passion for cooking.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
IXP Heads to Haiti, Points Beyond
In January, some 500 students participating in the Immersion Experience Program (IXP) will head to an expanded roster of international and domestic destinations to engage in field-based learning. Now in its fifth year, the program emphasizes active learning through... View Details
Keywords: IXP
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
fund for young US technology companies. He is now the founding cochairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a leading venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage social enterprises making a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
Program, begun twenty years ago, and the Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), established in 1993, the new service leadership program represents a further expansion of HBS's interest in the management and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Natural World
TERCEK: A tight strategic focus. Courtesy The Nature Conservancy Two years ago, Mark Tercek (MBA ’84) left his job at Goldman Sachs to become head of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the habitat-preserving organization that has some 3,700 employees worldwide (as well as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Business as a Force for Good in Society
effort is the newly established Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), an ambitious, interdisciplinary enterprise that provides a research-based platform for the School’s faculty to examine many of the most critical... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
In Harmony
After an unsatisfying stint as a consultant at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) developed a new strategic plan for his life with the goal of finding a job at the intersection of business and the arts. He achieved that goal in... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
In 1989, Sergeant William Delaney Gibbs was in Panama participating in Operation Just Cause, set to remove military dictator Manuel Noriega from power. He was with the Seventh Infantry Division and, during combat five days before the Christmas holiday, he was killed.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
Khan Academy began in 2004 as a family favor: To help his teenaged cousins understand a few math concepts, hedge fund analyst Salman Khan (MBA 2003) offered after-school math tutoring via phone calls and explainer videos. A decade later, Khan Academy has become an... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
volunteers. They have also participated in HBS Social Enterprise Initiative events and invited several management consulting firms to participate in the program beginning in 2022. While both Rogers and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says Clifford (MBA 1956), a former... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, Patyal started a... View Details