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01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

the challenge. “When Elizabeth shared her experience and her ideas, I basically said, ‘How can I help?’” Klein says. “To me there was such a compelling need.” Many other HBS sectionmates supported the startup with seed funding to launch Heal Ukraine Trauma. Among the... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

lives, in part because they didn’t understand the nature of power, but many of them learned along the way,” says Battilana. "Having once been wary of power is no guarantee that you will be immune to abusing it." Brazilian doctor Vera Cordeiro, for instance, started a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 May 2024
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

Roberts went into consulting to dip his toes into the field of business and discover his passions. He worked in sectors such as economic development and climate and sustainability, founded a nonprofit academy to deliver capability... View Details

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I spent... View Details

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

students may be eligible for project-related expenses during their second year of study. HBS Leadership Fellows (login required): Second-year students entering the nonprofit or public sectors may apply to the Leadership Fellows as a... View Details

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

at DC's Community Foundation to support issues they believe in, primarily empowerment of women and girls, ocean conservation, and sustainable cities. Organizations that have benefited from their involvement include numerous Washington-based View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
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The Robin Hood Army

By: Susanna Gallani

In 2014, Neel Ghose and a handful of friends spent one evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The... View Details

Keywords: Volunteer-based Organization; Food Redistribution; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Human Needs; Expansion; Global Range; Growth and Development

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07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

conversation, Segneri highlights the broadening of the initial i-lab model as an educational collaborative just for students into a three-lab ecosystem that also engages alumni and life sciences entrepreneurs; encourages the exploration of innovative ideas across... View Details

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

imply the potential for social impact, the authors hand-coded 500 postings to yield 100 key phrases including “making a difference,” “giving back,” “positively impact,” “improving the lives,” and “people’s lives.” Listings included a wide range of employers from... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

principals didn’t return phone calls. There was suspicion by nonprofit leaders with similar-sounding missions. Was she poaching from their territories? Would she siphon off their donors? There was a refusal to budge, even on the part of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2023
News

New School

and children drew him to the company in 2008. Waldron had spent most of his career in the education sector, working for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in mission-driven and profit-driven settings. His experiences had... View Details

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

In 2009, technology researchers at Forrester published a report entitled We Are All Media Companies Now, that looked at how publishing firms were dealing with the shift from a distribution paradigm to one based on consumption. By 2014, the paradigm is being experienced... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

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Cait Haught

for nonprofit leaders Cait did not want an MBA to serve as "career changer:" "I like finance, and I know I want to work with organizations doing good." Instead, she wanted a general management degree that would... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

Pennsylvania and Boston, where Cathy runs a nonprofit mentoring program for inner-city high school students. “These are amazing kids who just need a chance,” says Jack, whose paternal grandfather labored as a janitor at Harvard to put his... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

again a magnet for companies. With its targeting capabilities, relatively low cost, and vast reach, social media has become an essential marketing channel, especially for those trying to reach young consumers. The Israeli nonprofit Vibe... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

federal government agency of the United States (including military service). An approved government or nonprofit organization located outside of the United States, as permitted by U.S. law. An approved multi-lateral or international... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

interact with different people and maintaining a strong knowledge of who you are.” Last year, in conjunction with the School's Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, Dasgupta worked with Women's World Banking to design... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

helping the nonprofit sector, he served as Harvard's treasurer from 1989 until last June, advising three presidents and watching over the University's resources. "It was one of the great privileges of my life," he says. In a commencement... View Details

20 Feb 2020
Op-Ed

Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.

other complaints about the company’s culture. "It's clear McDonald's culture is rotten from top to bottom,” she said. Perhaps the height of lack of disclosure was reached by a nonprofit CEO in Massachusetts, who boasted of his... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger

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