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22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

right? We're fully trained to say, look at the environment around you. First of all, just map it out. What is the landscape that you're seeing? And for the nonprofit sector, you have to say, what is everybody already doing that you don't... View Details

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Finding Talent Opportunities

alumni resume databases Leadership Fellows Program Leverage the experience, energy, and analytical skills of MBAs for one year with financial support from HBS. Learn more about this opportunity for nonprofit and public-sector... View Details

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

nonprofit space, something completely different than what I was doing before. What is your favorite memory of your time at HBS?It was during my first semester. Due to COVID guidelines, we were very restricted in terms of section... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Key concepts: Business and Society, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Patagonia's change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Executive Education programs, designed for nonprofit and social enterprise leaders. Develop the strategic knowledge, practical tools, and leadership skills you need to lead a thriving, high-performance organization.... View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

distribution , corporate accountability , electronic commerce , moral leadership , nonprofit governance Interviews Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo Ritu Kumar Dr. Manu Chandaria Francis Okomo-Okello Nii Narku Quaynor Kwasi Abeasi V.G. Narayanan... View Details

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

things incomplete” Do you want customers to refer more of their friends to your company’s website? Ask them to refer friends in arbitrary “batches” of five at a time. Looking to increase charitable giving to your nonprofit organization?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jul 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

successful leaders in nonprofit organizations) "legislative leadership," the ability to create coalitions both within and outside of organizations. While concluding that leaders have less control than most people think, Pfeffer... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

bono activities, alumni consulting teams in several cities offer nonprofit organizations business management expertise. Student Clubs The Social Impact Club , the Social Enterprise Conference , and a number of related clubs frequently... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

months of the crisis. Rouen’s study sheds light on the true factors behind the choices leaders make when survival is at stake. Sales take a dive The research team used data collected between March and May 2020 by the nonprofit JUST... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

15 Feb 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

communications, and social impact consulting firm specializing in corporate, entertainment, brand, and nonprofit sectors. When I was first hired, I was an assistant to one of the company's founders and CEOs, and a senior publicist in the... View Details

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

Open Up Resources, two successful nonprofits focused on innovation in the K–12 education market in the United States, Wolf knew how to deliver scalable, outside-the-box educational services for American kids. He believes his latest... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

consequences of climate change more vivid, intuitive, and useful. Collaborating with scientists, designers, technologists, and other concerned generalists like him, Glendon founded Probable Futures, a nonprofit initiative that aims to... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

brother passed away due to complications from schizophrenia; mental health is an issue I’m very invested in, which is why I sit on the boards of Alto Neuroscience and the nonprofit One Mind.” Back to top View Details

George C. Lodge

Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

at Best Buy Value Creation at Nonprofit Organizations Show Hide Details Concepts An Introduction to Value-Based Strategy Sales Success and Willingness to Pay Asking How Near-Customers Featured Exercises Identify ways to increase and... View Details

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